Item MM 124349 Photograph - Centennial Hall with Flags Flying, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1980

Summary

Black & white panoramic vista comprised of two photographs of the Exhibition Buildings from an elevated vantage point on the eastern side of Nicholson Street looking west, showing the eastern nave, the French fountain in the court in front of it, and the recently completed Centennial Hall and Grollo Fountain in the surrounding Centennial Gardens.

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 comrpised of two images joined together to form a single panoramic print on a page of a photograph album. The image is taken from an elevated vantage point on the eastern side of Nicholson Street, probably from the one of the Royal Terraces, looking west, showing the eastern nave, the French fountain in the court in front of it, and the newly completed Centennial Hall and, further north, the Grollo Fountain. There is a printed caption below the photograph.