Item MM 124443 Photograph - Tahitian Exhibit, The Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition, Royal Exhibition Buildings, 1980

Summary

Black & white photograph of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra at the Tahiti Tourist Board's exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980. Also present with Her Royal Highness are her lady-in-waiting, the Lady Mary Fitzalan-Howard (now Lady Mary Mumford), MVO, and Mr Riddell, exhibition director and managing director of Riddell Exhibition Promotions.

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.

Description of Content

Black & white photograph of HRH Princess Alexandra at the Tahiti Tourist Board's exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980. Present with are her Lady Mary Fitzalan-Howard, MVO, HRH's lady-in-waiting since 1964, and Mr RCT Riddell.

Physical Description

A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.