Significance

Yields information on the decorations and tramcars and street scenes at the time of the Queens visit to Ballarat.

Physical description

Digital image from the Wal Jack Ballarat Album of a series of four small black and white photographs taken during the Queen Elizabeth II visit to Ballarat, March 1954. Captions under each photograph in ink.



1 - No. 37 at Pleasant St, looking east along Sturt St. - see Neg 993

2 - No. 25 at Lydiard St with the National Mutual Building in the background - see Neg 991.

3 - No. 21 - Sturt St at Dawson St with Golden City Hotel in the background - see Neg 992

4 - No. 17 Lydiard St taken from the railway station car park - see also Reg Item 5300 for a better photograph and Wal's notes on rear which says No. 17, not 11 - see Neg 994



All photographs include some of the decorations for the Royal Visit.



Photographer - not stated, but sheet in Wal's handwriting. May not be Wal Jack based on the negative size, smaller than 120 which Wal used at the time.



See image i2 for rear of photograph.

See image i3 for hi res scan of print.

See image i4 for hi res scan of negative N993

See image i5 for hi res scan of negative N994

See image i6 for hi res scan of negative N995

See image i7 for hi res scan of negative N996

Inscriptions & markings

On rear of the Manila sheet which has been cut from another sheet are "No. 11 Victoria St terminus 25-6-57".