Summary
Publication titled on the cover 'The Duke and Duchess, a memento of their visit to Melbourne and opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament of Australia', May 1901, second edition, published by Leslie W. Craw and printed by D.W. Paterson, Melbourne.
The eighty-page publication was produced as a photographic memento of the visit to Melbourne by George - later King George V of England - and his wife May, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. The opening photographs include full-length portraits of their Royal Highness The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York across pages 4-5 respectively, as well as His Excellency, The Earl of Hopetoun, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and his wife, Her Excellency The Countess of Hopetoun. There is also a double portrait of the Duke and Duchess on page 21.
Physical Description
Soft-covered book with green binding, stapled in three places, containing 80 pages. Photos are framed with scrolls & decorative borders. Front cover, LR corner, depicts a photograph of an outdoor Australian scene, with a stream and eucalyptus in soft green-grey hues. Celtic scrolls in gold decorate the cover.
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Collection Names
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Acquisition Information
Purchase
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Author
Leslie W. Craw, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1901
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Printer & Publisher
D.W. Paterson, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1901
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Person Depicted
HRH George F. Duke of Cornwall & York, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1901
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Person Depicted
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Person Depicted
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Inscriptions
Front cover: THE/ DUKE/ AND/ DUCHESS/ A MEMENTO/ OF THEIR VISIT/ TO MELBOURNE/ AND OPENING/ OF THE FIRST/ COMMONWEALTH/ PARLIAMENT/ OF AUSTRALIA/ MAY 1901
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Overall Dimensions
29 cm (Length), 22.7 cm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
217 mm (Length), 290 mm (Width), 10 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Australian Federation, 1901, Ceremonies, Civic Life, Politics, Royal Exhibition Building, Royal Exhibition Building: History of Events, 1892-1917, Royal Visits, Royalty: British, Making History - Federation