Item MM 124212 Photograph - Descendants of Hon William Mountford Kinsey Vale at Centenary of Laying Foundation Stone Commemorative Function, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1979

Summary

Black & white photograph of the descendants of Hon William Mountford Kinsey Vale at a function to commemorate the centenary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Exhibition Building, taken 19 February 1979. The foundation stone was laid by His Excellency Sir George Bowen, Governor of the Colony of Victoria, on 19 February 1879. Hon William Mountford Kinsey Vale was the first Treasurer from 1880-1881.

This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files.

Description of Content

A view of a group of five people, three women and two men, standing in front of a wall covered in framed pictures.

Physical Description

A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.