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Photograph - Speech at the Opening of the Convention Centre, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1973
Reg. No: MM 124132
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- Summary:
- Black & white photograph of a speech being given on stage at the opening of the convention centre, 30 January 1973.
This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files. - Description:
- A black & white silver gelatin print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.
- Description Of Content:
- Lecturn to the left of the photograph with a man giving a speech. Eight people sit in chairs on the stage behind him.
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 178 mm (Height), 242 mm (Width) |
More information
| Tagged with: | buildings, royal exhibition building, interior views, events, royal exhibition building trustees |
| Themes this item is part of: | Images & Image Making Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection, Royal Exhibition Building Collection |
| Primary Classification: | ROYAL EXHIBITION BUILDING |
| Secondary Classification: | Building & Infrastructure |
| Tertiary Classification: | convention centre |
| Inscriptions: | Master Plan Stage 4 - Development old eastern annexe site Phase 2 -/ First section new annexe April 24th 1972 - March 7th 1973./ Opening of convention centre January 30th 1973./ L to R: Councillor E.W. BEST, CMG, Hon. E.R. MEAGHER, M.B.E.,/ ED, Sir Harold Gengoult SMITH, VD, Mrs. J.C. ELDEN,/ Mrs. I.R. BEAUREPAIRE, Mr. V.J. MAROCCO, architect,/ Mrs. R. SALZER, Councillor I.R. BEAUREPAIRE, CMG, Chairman/ of Trustees, Mr. J.C. ELDEN, Director. |
| Format: | Photograph: Black & White |
| Place & Date Depicted: | Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1880-1881 |
| Person Depicted: | Councillor E. Best - City of Melbourne |
| Person Depicted: | Mr E Meagher - Exhibition Trustees |
| Person Depicted: | Sir Harold Gengoult-Smith - Melbourne City Council |
| Person Depicted: | Mrs Betty Elden |
| Person Depicted: | Mrs I Beaurepaire |
| Person Depicted: | Mr V Marocco |
| Person Depicted: | Mr R Salzer |
| Person Depicted: | Councillor I Beaurepaire |
| Person Depicted: | Mr J Elden |
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