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Album - Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, Piers, etc, 1920 - 1922

  • A thick photograph album with a blue cover with two small white stickers with "MELB" on one and "DOCKS" on the other handwritten in red

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • Photograph album open to display two black and white photographs, one on each page.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • Sepia photograph of five pieces of timber with two indistinct figures in the background. The handprinted names of each piece of timber has been added to the photograph later.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • A low view of a pier or wharf, almost from water level, looking along the side of the structure with several freestanding pylons a short distance away in the water. Four of the pylons have been identified on the developed photograph as 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D' and the distance between two of the pylons is identified as 100 feet.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • Two work boats bow to bow at the end of a small wharf. One of the boats has a block and tackle and several men spread between the two boats and the wharf are working to lift some timber from the water.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • A pier or wharf with some of the deck timbers removed or not yet installed with a man standing on the exposed beams.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • Several workmen stand on a pier or wharf next to a pile of sacks their backs to the camera. There is a railway wagon to their right full of sacks and a ship berthed to their left.

    2187.01 - Photograph Album, Projects by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison, 1920-22

  • A thick photograph album with a blue cover with two small white stickers with "MELB" on one and "DOCKS" on the other handwritten in red
  • Photograph album open to display two black and white photographs, one on each page.
  • Sepia photograph of five pieces of timber with two indistinct figures in the background. The handprinted names of each piece of timber has been added to the photograph later.
  • A low view of a pier or wharf, almost from water level, looking along the side of the structure with several freestanding pylons a short distance away in the water. Four of the pylons have been identified on the developed photograph as 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D' and the distance between two of the pylons is identified as 100 feet.
  • Two work boats bow to bow at the end of a small wharf. One of the boats has a block and tackle and several men spread between the two boats and the wharf are working to lift some timber from the water.
  • A pier or wharf with some of the deck timbers removed or not yet installed with a man standing on the exposed beams.
  • Several workmen stand on a pier or wharf next to a pile of sacks their backs to the camera. There is a railway wagon to their right full of sacks and a ship berthed to their left.

Physical description

Original photos. Photo album of 48 photos of projects undertaken by Charles Wynn Kiver Allison M.I.E.A.. Namely the New Pier (Princes), Railway Pier, Williamstown, Centre Pier in Victoria Dock, and the Interstate Swinging Basin (near Charles Grimes Bridge) in Yarra River 1920s

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