Coffee Palace, Geelong, Victoria, circa 1896

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Item MM 7705 Negative - Austral Coffee Palace, Geelong, Victoria, circa 1896

Summary

Black and white negative of the Austral Coffee Palace in Geelong, Victoria, circa 1896.

The Austral Coffee Palace was established by Ellen Frances Griffin and it's opening advertised in the Geelong Advertiser on 30 December, 1896.

Coffee palaces were most popular in Australia in the 1880-90s, established under the ideals of the temperance movement. Essentially, they were hotels that did not serve alcohol. They aimed to provide a pleasant, alcohol-free environment, with onsite accommodation available.
Temperance, or abstinence societies, as they were also known, were created to address the problems of excessive drinking in the 1800s.

Part of 'The Biggest Family Album in Australia Collection', comprising approximately 10,000 negatives. The collection documents life in rural and regional Victoria dating from the 1890s to the 1940s.