Summary

Black & white photograph of the entrance to the Great Hall from the eastern annexe, formerly known as the Stadium Annexe in 1971.

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

View of the entrance to the Great Hall with a wooden staircase to the left and a bank of power meters within a caged area to the right. There is a double doorway with one of the wooden doors closed, the other open. An ornate archway can be seen in the foreground to the right.

Physical Description

A black & white silver gelatin 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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