Summary

Colour photograph of Ruth Bowman, personal assistant to John Elden, Director of the Exhibition Trustees, between July 1974 and August 1984, and Elden posing for the camera at Bowman's typewriter, 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

Director of the Exhibition Trustees, John Elden, and Ruth Bowman, Elden's personal assistant between July 1974-August 1984, 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 is seated at her desk and typewriter, with Elden standing to her right.

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.

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