Summary
Black & white photograph looking through the doorway that leads to the Stadium Anenxe, with the kitchens to the Royale Ballroom on the right, in 1971.
The Stadium Annexe was built at the rear of the Exhibition Buildings, running east-west off the Eastern Annexe, in October 1956. It was demolished in 1972 as part of the redevelopment of the Eastern Annexe site, following the demolition of the northern end of the Annexe throughout August and September 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 from outside the building looking through the large, double-door opening leading to the Stadium Annexe, Exhibition Buildings, in 1971. There are several large metal bins against the left wall, while some figures can be seen through the doorway.
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.
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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Acquisition Information
Transfer from Trustees of the Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Jan 2000
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Place & Date Depicted
Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1971
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Format
Photograph, Black & White
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Inscriptions
Printed below photograph: Doorway from Stadium Annexe 1971. At right: Royale/ Ballroom kitchen.
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Classification
Royal exhibition building, Building & infrastructure, Stadium annexe
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
247 mm (Width), 160 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Buildings, Exhibitions: Melbourne International, 1880-1881, Exterior Views, Royal Exhibition Building, Royal Exhibition Building Trustees, Royal Exhibition Building: History of Events, 1970-1979