Summary

Black & white photograph of Exhibition Trustee Chairman Mr Freeman Strickland OBE standing on the dais errected at the eastern entrance to the Royal Exhibition Buildings welcoming Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra as part of the centenary address. He is accompanied on the dais by Her Royal Highness, her husband, the Hon Angus Ogilvy, the Permier of Victoria, Rupert "Dick" Hamer, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and members of the Exhibition Trustees executive committee.

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 photographic print on a page of a photograph album. The image depicts Exhibition Trustee Chairman Mr Freeman Strickland OBE standing at a lectern on the temporary dais errected at the eastern entrance to the Royal Exhibition Buildings welcoming Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra as part of the centenary address. Seated on the dais behind him are his wife, Mrs Strickland, the Hon Angus Ogilvy, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, the Permier of Victoria, Rupert "Dick" Hamer, and his wife, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and members of the Exhibition Trustees executive committee. Also visible in the background are the wife of Exhibition Trustee Rodney Davidson. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

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