Photograph - Southern Entrance Foyer to Convention Centre, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1973

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Summary:: Black & white photograph of the southern entrance foyer and doorway to the convention centre, taken circa 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:: View of foyer area with stairs leading down to the right of the photograph. In the centre of the image are doors leading to the convention centre, and on the left is some furniture and pot plants against the wall.

Discipline:	History
Dimensions:	190 mm (Height), 242 mm (Width)

Tagged with:	buildings, royal exhibition building, 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./ Southern entrance foyer and doorway to convention centre.
Format:	Photograph: Black & White
Place & Date Depicted:	Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1973