Melbourne (inhabited place)
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
The Benevolent Asylum, 1870 - 1880
181 x 128 mm. A view from outside the grounds of the asylum, a large attractive building with something of the look of a country house. With two horse cabs outside the gate.
The Flat Flemington Race Course, 1888 - 1889
201 x 150 mm. A view along the track, with stands in the distance.
The Great Willow on Yarra Banks, 1888 - 1889
197 x 140 mm. A view of this large willow tree, with the river beyond. The handwritten caption also states ‘grown from cutting taken from Napoleon’s first grove, St Helena’.
The Lawn, Flemington Paddock, 1885 - 1901
200 x 145 mm. A view of the racecourse paddock, with crowded stands in the background, and smartly dressed women with parasols sitting in the foreground.
The Melbourne Hospital, 1870 - 1880
194 x 127 mm. A view from the roof of a nearby building looking over Lonsdale Street to the complex of hospital buildings. The first hospital opened on this site in 1848 had only 22 beds and further buildings were added in the following years. The whole hospital was rebuilt in 1910.
The new railway station, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Dec 26 1909, 1909-12-26
[No print]. Missing.
The new railway station, Flinders Street, Melbourne, Dec 26 1909, 1909-12-26
[No print]. Missing.
The University and Museum, 1870 - 1880
183 x 130 mm. A view looking across lawns and the lake towards the university buildings. For a brief history of the university buildings see Y3087D/21.
Town Hall, 1870 - 1880
176 x 129 mm. A view of this massive building which stands at the corner of Swanston Street and Collins Street. The foundation stone of the building was laid by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867, and the building completed around 1870.
Town Hall and Collins St, from Russell Street, 1885 - 1901
198 x 149 mm. A view taken from slightly further back than Y3087D/29, but looking in the same direction, with the Town Hall at the junction of Collins Street, and with a tram in the foreground.
Treasury, 1870 - 1880
184 x 130 mm. A three-quarters front view of the Treasury which lies on Spring Street opposite the junction with Collins Street. The building has a fine neo-classical façade, with columns and rounded arches and facings of freestone over brick and bluestone. Building started in 1855 to the plans of J Clark.
[Treasury Buildings], 1870
390 x 273 mm. A view looking across Gisborne Street towards the Treasury Buildings and showing the junction of Collins Street, Spring Street and Gisborne Street. The Treasury, a handsome building in the Italian Renaissance style, was completed in 1862. The fountain in the small garden to the north of the building was designed by William Stanford while a prisoner in Pentridge Gaol in the 1860s.
Treasury Buildings, 1885 - 1901
199 x 146 mm. A view of the front of the buildings, which face down Collins Street from Spring Street. A fine neo-classical façade, with columns and rounded arches, and facings of freestone over brick and bluestone. Building started in 1855 to the plans of the architect J. Clark.
Treasury Offices, 1888 - 1889
200 x 137 mm. A view of the Government Offices, showing the front of the building and one side. The offices overlook the Treasury Gardens and were completed in 1876.
[Unidentified woman], 1850 - 1930
35 x 45 mm. (Vignetted oval). A carte de visite head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified young woman. Inscribe on the reverse are the words 'With Nelly's love and compliments of the season'. The backmark reads; 'Stewart and Co, 217 Bourke Street East, near Parliament Houses, Melbourne. A large framed copy of this portrait may be had price 20. Marion, Imp, Paris'.
[Unidentified woman], 1850 - 1926
99 x 146 mm. A Cabinet Card full length studio portrait of a young woman in her wedding dress. The backmark reads: 'John Williams Lindt, 7 Collins Street East, Melbourne.'
University, 1870 - 1880
184 x 134 mm. A view looking across the ornamental lake towards the university buildings.
University, 1888 - 1889
204 x 142 mm. A view looking across a small ornamental lake, towards the university buildings, with Wilson Hall on the left.
Victorian Fine Arts gallery, 1880
289 x 233 mm.
Victorian locomotives, 1880
289 x 233 mm.
Victorian machinery annexe, 1880
289 x 233 mm.
Victorian mining court, 1880
289 x 233 mm.
[View along Lonsdale Street], 1870
390 x 276 mm. A view looking eastwards along Lonsdale Street with the partially completed St Patrick’s Cathedral visible on the skyline (see Y3089B/11). Queen Street crosses the photograph in the foreground, the buildings which line it being predominantly small hotels and boarding houses.
View in Belgian Court: Glassware, 1880
288 x 233 mm. A view showing a central display of glass sheets of various sizes, with framed pictures above, and other samples in the background.
View in Belgian Court. Iron Trophy: Front View, 1880
290 x 234 mm. A view showing a railway locomotive at the right, and in the centre various pieces of metal work connected with railway engineering.