Photograph - Photograph, Sepia, View of Piers, Port Melbourne from Mission windows, Early 20th C

Album (item) - Photographic Album, 1928

Historical information

This image appears to have been taken from the second storey of the Mission to Seamen, on Beach Rd Esplanade, Port Melbourne circa 1912 - 1920. One of several images on loose album pages.

Significance

An early image taken from the building established in Port Melbourne initially in the mid 19th C and operating up to the 1930s until replaced by a modern deco building in 1936. Shows examples of vintage cars.

Physical description

Small Landscape B and W image of ships moored alongside a pier in distance and small early car in foreground on unsealed road travelling left to right.

Inscriptions & markings

Handwritten descriptive inscription is written underneath on an album page.

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