c. 1905Melbourne
Melbourne from the dome of the Exhibition Building
Period stereograph. Camera on the 1880 Exhibition Building.
Elevated photograph
c. 1905·Melbourne
Melbourne from the dome of the Exhibition Building
Period stereograph. Camera on the 1880 Exhibition Building.
Elevated photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
Melbourne photographed from the dome of the 1880 Exhibition Building: parks, a grid, low masonry, a few taller piles. An elevated photograph from a known high point. The camera stands on world’s-fair architecture that was kept. Do not treat the view as a lithograph of the city.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- Royal Exhibition Building (camera position)
- Region
- Australia
- Documented completion
- 1880
- Architect
- Joseph Reed
- Present status
- Surviving — The Exhibition Building still stands in Carlton Gardens. This plate is the city seen from its dome, not a portrait of the building’s façade.
- Source
- Library of Congress stereo collection (1s16949).
- License
- Public domain.
Collections where this plate appears
- 03Panoramas and aerialsDrawn strips, stitched or wide photographs, and cameras in balloons. The type is the first fact.
- 05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.