Item MM 124944 Photograph - Official Party in the Great Hall, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 2 Mar 1954

Summary

Black and white photograph showing the official party at a reception held at the Exhibition Building to celebrate Her Majesty's coronation on the evening of 2 March 1954.

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

Black and white photograph showing the official party, including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, on the dais in the southern transept at a reception held at the Exhibition Building on the evening of 2 March 1954.

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.