c. 1880sMelbourne
Royal Exhibition Building
Period photograph of the 1880 Exhibition Building. Exact photographer and year of this scan are not fixed on the file.
Street photograph
c. 1880s·Melbourne
Royal Exhibition Building
Period photograph of the 1880 Exhibition Building. Exact photographer and year of this scan are not fixed on the file.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Exhibition Building photographed from the gardens: the dome, the long nave, paths, figures. World’s-fair architecture that was kept. A camera on the ground in Melbourne. Present status: surviving. Do not collapse this façade plate with the view taken from the dome.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Region
- Australia
- Documented completion
- 1880
- Architect
- Joseph Reed
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands in Carlton Gardens. A later plate in this archive was taken from its dome. This plate is the building itself.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of a nineteenth-century photograph of the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
- License
- Public domain (nineteenth-century photograph).