Item MM 68160 Stereograph - Erection of the Great Melbourne Telescope at Melbourne Observatory, 1869

Summary

Stereograph of the Great Melbourne Telescope being erected at the Melbourne Observatory, 1869.

Description of Content

The Great Melbourne Telescope being erected at the Melbourne Observatory, 1869. Photograph shows the Great Melbourne Telescope House nearing completion. The telescope, which has a fabric covering over it, is at the opening of the roll-off roof. Workmen, probably plasterers rendering the walls to the building, are on scaffolding at one end of the telescope house. There is a timber picket fence in the foreground.

Physical Description

Black and white stereograph [unmounted]