Summary

Black & white photograph showing the construction of steel framework for the new Eastern Annexe, being built as part of Stage 4 of the Master Plana, taken on 29 June 1973. The new Eastern Annexe was constructed between April 1972 and March 1973, on the site of the former Stadium Annexe which had been built in October 1956 and was demolished in 1972.

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 steel framework being erected on the site of the former Stadium Annexe, as part of the construction of the new Eastern Annexe in 1972. Only the upper sections of the framework are visible, standing above the roofline of the original Exhibition Buildings.

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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