Summary
Colour photograph of Teresa Stech (Stechiwskyj) and Ruth Bowman, personal assistant to John Elden, Director of the Exhibition Trustees, between July 1974 and August 1984, at the Farewell held for Bowman in the Trustees' rooms in Centennial Hall, Royal Exhibition Building.
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
Receptionist Teresa Stech (Stechiwskyj) and Ruth Bowman, personal assistant to the Director of the Exhibition Trustees, John Elden, posing for the camera in the Trustees' room in Centennial Hall, Royal Exhibition Building, on the occassion of a farewell held for Ruth Bowman. Bowman was Elden's personal assistant between July 1974-August 1984.
Physical Description
A colour photographic print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.
Significance
The Exhibition Trustees' album containing this photograph provides an invaluable visual record of past maintenance and restoration work undertaken on the Royal Exhibition Buildings prior to the building being recognised with a World Heritage Listing in 2004.
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, Victoria, Australia, Aug 1984
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Person Depicted
Mrs Teresa Stechiwskyj - Exhibition Trustees, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Aug 1984
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Person Depicted
Mrs Ruth Bowman - Exhibition Trustees, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Aug 1984
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Format
Photograph, Colour
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Inscriptions
Printed below photograph: Staff - August 1984 - L - R: Teresa Stech, Ruth Bowman.
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Classification
Royal exhibition building, Management, Trustees general history
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
251 mm (Width), 201 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Buildings, Events, Exhibitions: Melbourne International, 1880-1881, Royal Exhibition Building, Royal Exhibition Building Trustees, Royal Exhibition Building: History of Events, 1980-1989, Staff