Item MM 124341 Photograph - Construction of Centennial Hall from North East, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1980

Summary

Black & white photograph of the construction of Centennial Hall, taken from the northern end of the Nicholson Street car park looking south-west in February 1980. Centennial Hall was constructed between August 1979 and September 1980.

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.

Physical Description

A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. The image shows Centennial Hall taken from the northern end of the Nicholson Street car park looking south-west towards to the Melbourne CBD. The car park is full of cars, and a line woman walks towards the left of image. The Hall structural framework is clearly visible, the further building being covered in scaffolding. There is a printed caption below the photograph.