Summary

Negative - Hawthorn Town Hall, Group Sitting on Stairs, Victoria, 02 Apr 1959. Ethel Swinburne and Swinburne Technical College council president, Mr. R. G. Parsons, with a framed painting, seated on the steps of the town hall surrounded by students. The painting by Scott Pendlebury, a senior art instructor at the college, was presented to Mrs Swinburne as part of the college's 50th anniversary.

One of approximately 85,000 negatives from the Laurie Richards Collection taken by the Melbourne based Laurie Richards Studio between the 1950s -1970s.

Laurie Richards was a professional photographer who began his career as a photo-journalist, working for the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide, and the Argus and the Herald newspapers in Melbourne. In 1953, he opened his own business and set up a photographic studio at his home at 4 Tower Avenue, Alphington, an inner suburb of Melbourne. At its peak, in the late 1960s, the Laurie Richards Studio was one of Melbourne's pre-eminent commercial photographic studios, employing twelve photographers. The Laurie Richards Studio worked mainly in advertising and public relations, and had a broad clientele which included commercial companies, government institutions and the entertainment industry.

Description of Content

A large group of people sitting on a set of stairs at the Hawthorn Town Hall. They are sitting around a framed painting of a street scene.

Physical Description

Black and white cellulose acetate negative.

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