Summary

Colour 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 Cr AJ Watson, Exhibition Trustees Chairman Mr Freeman Strickland OBE, Trustees Director Mr. JC Elden, Mrs Strickland, Mrs. Watson and the Hon Norman Lacy, MP.

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 colour 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 Exhibition Trustee Cr. AJ Watson, Exhibition Trustees Chairman, Mr Freeman Strickland OBE, Exhibition Trustees Director Mr JC Elden, Mrs Strickland, Mrs Watson, and the Hon. Norman Lacy, MP, Minister for the Arts in the Hamer Government between May 1979 and April 1982. Behind them a portion of the banner hung across the entrance way which reads 'The Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition', with the dates 1880 and 1980 in the upper corners, is visible. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

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