Item MM 110239 Digital Photograph - Dramatic Tableau, Coronation Celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, 1953

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Performance in the Royal Exhibition Building with a giant crown above stage and the audience in foreground. This photograph forms part of the celebrations for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, in 1953. Soldiers with muskets and 19th century uniforms fight Aborigines with spears and shields in front of a figure on a throne.