Item MM 124832 Photograph - Dining, At Home to Ken Christian & John Elden, Royal Exhibition Building, 18 May 1985

Summary

Colour photograph of a table of guests seated for dinner in the Great Hall at the 'At Home' celebration for Ken Christian and John Elden held at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, on the evening of 18 May 1985.

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

Table of guests seated for dinner in the Great Hall of the Royal Exhibition Buildings on the occasion of the 'At Home' to Ken Christian and John Elden held on the evening of 18 May 1985. Guests include former Director of the Exhibition Trustees John Elden, and his wife Betty, Geoffrey and Joan Good, Lou and Mona Barberis, and former Exhibition Trustees Chairman Freeman Strickland, and his wife Mary.

Physical Description

A colour photographic print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

Significance

The ten Exhibition Trustees' albums provide an invaluable visual record of past use, history, maintenance and restoration work of the Royal Exhibition Buildings prior to the building being recognised with a World Heritage Listing in 2004.