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

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