Summary
Colour photograph of the interior of the theatre style meeting room in Centennial Hall set up as an auditorium to hold 250 seats, circa 1982.
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 depicts an interior view of the theatre style meeting room in Centennial Hall, looking towards the front across rows of metal chairs. There are windows with white curtains on the right of the image, with exit doors along the right side wall. There is a printed caption below the photograph. This is the same image as item MM 1244400.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Public Life & Institutions, Images & Image Making, Royal Exhibition Building
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Place & Date Depicted
Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Meeting Rooms constructed between August 27th/ 1979 and September 30th 1980 set up as an Auditorium/ for 250, theatre style.
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Classification
Royal exhibition building, Building & infrastructure, Centennial hall
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
252 mm (Width), 210 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Buildings, Exhibitions: Melbourne International, 1880-1881, Presentations, Royal Exhibition Building, Royal Exhibition Building Trustees, Royal Exhibition Building: Centennial Hall
