Summary
Black & white photograph of 'The Mews' take from 'The Residency' 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 Mews', showing a clothes line in the left of image, a cypress tree planted against the wall, and a row of potted plants lined up on top of a row of concrete bricks, against the wall.
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: "The Mews" from "The Residency" 1971.
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Classification
Royal exhibition building, Building & infrastructure, Residences
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
245 mm (Width), 158 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Buildings, Exhibitions: Melbourne International, 1880-1881, Royal Exhibition Building, Royal Exhibition Building Trustees, Royal Exhibition Building: History of Events, 1970-1979
