Summary
Colour photograph with Director of the Exhibition Trustees, John Elden, standing in the location of the former doorway from the Stadium Annexe in 1982, followings its demolition a decade earlier.
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 a large doorway with John Elden, Director of the Exhibition Trustees, pointing towards a large, brown roller door on the left of image.
Physical Description
A colour 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, 1982
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Person Depicted
Mr John C. Elden - Exhibition Building Trustees, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1982
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Format
Photograph, Colour
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Inscriptions
Printed below photograph: Same site 1982.
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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
252 mm (Width), 201 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, 1980-1989