Item MM 124373 Photograph - Centenary Day, Royal Exhibition Buildings, 1 Oct 1980

Summary

Black & white photograph of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra giving an address from the temporary dais errected at the eastern entrance to the Royal Exhibition Buildings part of the centenary address. She is accompanied on the dais by her husband, the Hon Angus Ogilvy, the Premier of Victoria, Rupert "Dick" Hamer, Exhibition Trustees Chairman, Mr Freeman Strickland OBE, and other guests.

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 is more closely cropped than others in this series, and depicts Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra standing at a lectern on the temporary dais errected at the eastern entrance to the Royal Exhibition Buildings giving an address as part of the centenary address. Seated on the dais behind her and visible in this image are her husband, the Hon Angus Ogilvy, the Permier of Victoria, Rupert "Dick" Hamer, Exhibition Trustees Chairman, Mr Freeman Strickland OBE, and, partly obscurred, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. There is a printed caption below the photograph.