Historical information

Upper Main Street looking East. Poppet Heads in Background. Oriental Bank second on left then Quartz Reef Timber Yards. Intersection is Layzell St Main Street. Advertiser Office on right in front of Earlier Mechanics Institute.
Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866.
View of the top end of Main Street 1866 with the Commercial Hotel in the left foreground.
On the right is the Advertiser Newspaper office an Ararat newspaper before one was started in Stawell.
The building on the right with the ladder in front was the Mechanics Institute later burned down twice.

Physical description

Upper Main street with Poppet Heads in the background, the Oriental Bank second on left & then Quartz Reef Timber Yard 1867. Lots of people and wagons in street.
Advertiser Office on right and earlier Mechanics Institute with ladder at front.

Inscriptions & markings

Upper Main Street Reefs 1867