Summary

Black & white photograph showing the Royal Lounge temporarily set-up in the Royale Ballroom in the Eastern Annexe of the Exhibition Buildings as part of the Royal Visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to Australia in 1958.

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 Royal Lounge in the Royale Ballroom, Exhibition Buildings, showing the a central table with the British coat-of-arms mounted in the centre, and the Victorian coat-of-arms on a dark curtain behind. Sofas, chairs and oriental carpets decorate the room, with two large bouquet of flowers in the immediate foreground on the left and right of image.

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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