Historical information
Taken in the 1990s, this photograph depicts a line of historically restored shopfronts on Ford Street, Beechworth, with Beechworth Bazaar in the foreground and George Gammon's Chemist and Druggist adjacent to it.
Significance
This photograph is of social significance to the Beechworth community in depicting the Street of Shops, the creation of curator, Roy Harvey, which opened in 1979 at Burke Museum. According to the Indigo Shire Council webpage for Burke Museum, this addition 'began a new period of collecting with Roy Harvey calling to the community for donations. The response resulted in an influx of material adding to the town history/ development and local identities collections. The Shops and their contents reflect another period in museology.'
This photograph evokes the historic shopfronts of Beechworth Bazaar and George Gammon's Chemist and Druggist from the Street of Shops, which were established during the mid-1850s on the back of gold mining wealth. The expansion of banks within Beechworth also stimulated the local economy.
Physical description
Colour rectangular photograph printed on gloss photographic paper.
Inscriptions & markings
Obverse:
BEECHWORTH BAZAAR est. 1855/
CHINA GLASSWARE SILVERPLATE EARTHENWARE/
?ESTER HO?E/
R.?ALL. ? LT.LITTLEWOO?/
SINGLEMAN & RIEDLE
GEORGE GAMMON/
MEDICAL GALVANISM/
CUPPING/
TEETH EXTRACTED/
CHEMIST & DRUGGIST
Reverse:
3. 3055
Subjects
- burke museum,
- beechworth,
- beechworth bazaar,
- 19th-century victorian history,
- beechworth historic shops,
- burke museum,
- promoting settlement,
- marketing and retailing,
- living in country towns,
- making regional centres,
- preserving traditions and commemorating,
- victorian gold rush towns,
- beechworth pioneers,
- 1850s beechworth
References
- Carole Woods, Beechworth: A Titan's Field, Hargreen Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1985, pp.79-83. ISBN/ISSN: 0949905259 A local history of Beechworth, from the 1840s, focussing mainly on the 19th-century.
