Historical information

Rose Series postcard No. P 3645, titled "Lonsdale Street Melbourne', looking east from Queen Street. Has several cable trams in the far distance at Swanston Street. In the view is the Myer Emporium Lonsdale Street store and the Eastern Hill fire station tower. There are adverts for Dulux, Tribune, Wynss, Fox films, A E Hoad? Stillwell Stephens. The cable trams in Lonsdale Street west of Elizabeth Street closed in early 1935 and the remainder in 1939.

Significance

Yields information about Lonsdale St c1933.

Physical description

Postcard - printed real photograph with Rose Stereograph Co. name on the rear.

Inscriptions & markings

Has the 3rd part of a letter to Ken on the rear.