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“Youth and Beauty meet at River Festival”
So ran the headline in The Herald newspaper, reporting on a day when the Yarra River was “aglow with colour and life”.
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Singing their songs at the Central Telegraph Office, Elizabeth St, early 1920s
You see before you a group of telegraph dispatch operators at the Central Telegraph Office at Elizabeth St, taken in the early 1920s before its removal to Post Office Place.
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Taking a walk through Melbourne streets with Pierre Robin
Melbourne-based French wool buyer Pierre Robin was a keen amateur photographer. From the late 1950s into the 1960s he spent hours roaming the streets of the CBD, camera in hand.
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Museum of Chinese Australian History celebrates $15K grant for new podcast
Melbourne’s famous Museum of Chinese Australian History is celebrating after being awarded $15,000 to help launch a podcast about Chinese-Australian family stories.
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St Francis – a church among the gum trees
There isn’t a sheep (or two), nor is there a kangaroo in this image, but there are gum trees and plenty of other shrubs and trees!
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The flash brothels of Little Lon
A major historical study has been made of the flash brothels that proliferated in the 19th century in an area of the CBD known colloquially as Little Lon.
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Bourke St at the turn of the 20th century
This sweeping view up Bourke St was taken from the General Post Office (GPO) Tower around the turn of the 20th century and is one of the many images that capture the changing face of the CBD in the Royal Historical Society’s collection. The photographer, Henry Cooper, is looking out from one of Melbourne’s most iconic buildings towards the south-east corner of the city.
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Jungle atmosphere in the heart of Melbourne
When I first saw this atmospheric image of the Old National Herbarium at Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens, I was taken back to a time in the 1970s when I was fortunate enough to visit the ancient city of Palenque on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula early one morning as the ruins emerged out of a heavy jungle mist. I was blown away by the magical atmosphere I happened upon among the thick tropical vegetation.
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The parade that almost didn’t happen
To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934, well-known philanthropist, businessman and he of Cherry Ripe fame, Sir Macpherson Robertson, sponsored a trail-blazing air race from Mildenhall RAF Base in East Anglia to Melbourne.
Read MoreLittle Flinders St East, looking east, corner of Swanston St, 1870s
Looking at this photograph taken in the 1870s, it is hard to believe that the photographer was standing on the west side of Swanston St just opposite the St Paul’s Cathedral site. His camera is pointed up Flinders Lane and if he walked up the street far enough he would end up at the Treasury Gardens.
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QVM heritage recognised nationally
A total ladies man
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