Historical information

One of a series assembled for the Melbourne Exhibition of 1873, original mount hanging in Engineering Department at Port Melbourne Town Hall at 19-9-1994. This set of prints belonged to Town Clerk Syd ANDERSON, then to his daughter-in-law Phyllis ANDERSON (donor). Accompanied by list of captions, both hand written and typed (the latter a partial listing).

Physical description

View of Bay Street from Sugar Works c 1872 showing Seisman's Royal Mail, Lambs and Royal Hotels, earliest Swallow & Ariell building and Rouse Street and Bay Street shops including carpenter's.

Inscriptions & markings

"P Anderson" on back, ink. On face of photo someone has in the 1990s added a numeral in ink. This has been retouched out on our digital copies.