Photograph - Cable trams - Elizabeth and Collins St, 1918

Historical information

Photograph shows the intersection of Elizabeth and Collins Sts Melbourne, looking North East. There are two cable trams in the view in Elizabeth St, one with a bogie trailer. There are a number of horse-drawn carts, one motor vehicle and many pedestrians crossing the streets. In the view are the GPO, a building advertising Kodak Australasia at the Block, The Windsor magazine, W E Thomas Dentist, and Dunklings. By the Dunklings store is a double decker bus with the destination of Spring St, advertising Zebra stove polish. The horse drawn covered cart is Geo Thomson Dairy Produce Merchant.

Significance

Yields information about the intersection of Collins and Elizabeth St c1918

Physical description

Black and white print, mounted onto mauve coloured card with a printed title.

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