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Quong Tart
Student activities
Task no. 1
Quong Tart
Using the sources below, answer the following questions
- Who was Quong Tart?
- What contribution did he make to Australian society?
- Create a story about the life of Quong Tart and his contribution to Australian society.
Additional sources relating to Quong Tart's tea shop, Loong Shan can be found on Trove.
Source 7: 1889 Advertisement for Quong Tart's new tea shop, Loong Shan.
Source 8: Fifty years later, people were still writing about Quong Tart's wonderful scones!
Quong Tart, ca. 1870-1910
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Margaret Tart (nee Scarlett), ca. 1870-1910
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King Street, Sydney from Pitt Street, looking East, 1895 or 1898
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Quong Tart - oil portrait, ca. 1881-1889
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With compliments of Mr & Mrs Quong Tart, 1892, "Gallop House", Ashfield, Sydney N.S.W. , 1892
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Quong Tart and his family, 1900, 1900
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