Old Melbourne

1853 2 photos

Collins Street (Looking West from Russel St.), 1853Photograph of a framed drawing of Melbourne in 1853

1854 23 photos

The Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, N.W. Angle, 1854The Queen's Wharf, Melbourne, 1854The Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, N. W. angle, 1854 S.T.GTurner's General Printing Office, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 1854, letter-press and lithographic printerFirst Melbourne exhibition Novr. 1854Melbourne, 1854 (From Emerald Hill)Police Court House & Town Hall, Swanston St, Melbourne, 1854Fitzroy Gardens with James Sinclair's house in the distance ; James Sinclair's house in the Fitzroy Gardens ; St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, 1854Fitzroy Gardens with James Sinclair's house in the distance ; James Sinclair's house in the Fitzroy Gardens ; St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, 1854Fitzroy Gardens with James Sinclair's house in the distance ; James Sinclair's house in the Fitzroy Gardens ; St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, 1854Geelong & Melbourne Railway Terminus, Geelong, 1854First Melbourne Exhibition, Novr. 1854Bullock driver - Melbourne, 1854The Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1854Hobsons Bay from Melbourne 1854 from the Signal StaffNEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT - MELBOURNE, 1854?SALLE DE VALENTINO BOURKE STREET EAST 1854 [Melbourne]Flinders St. 1854GEELONG AND MELBOURNE RAILWAY, 1854Geelong and Melbourne Railway, 1854City of Melbourne From the South Bank of the Yarra Yarra looking North West, 1854Flinders St. 1854To the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Melbourne... [from] the undersigned Inhabitants of Melbourne considering the Unsettled State of a portion of the Diggings, and the necessity measures for the Better PROTECTION OF THE CITY, and upholding the cause of Law and Order, hereby request your Worship to convene A PUBLIC MEETING, 1854

1855 17 photos

Mechanics' Institution, Melbourne, 1855Melbourne Gas Works as at Jan. 1855James G. Beaney Esq. F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital etc. etc, c. 1855Township of Keilor from South side of Bridge, 1855View from Dryburgh St, Melbourne, Victoria - as it was in 1855Melbourne from the North near the road to Mount Alexander, 1855Melbourne, from the South East, looking to Princes' Bridge and West Melbourne, 1855Deep Creek mail & passengers on route to Melbourne, 1855Melbourne Gas Works as at Jan. 1855Melbourne Gas Works as at Jan. 1855Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 1855The property of E. B. Green, esq., St. Kilda, 1855Hall of Commerce Melbourne, 1855Hall of Commerce, Melbourne, 1855 S.T.GMelbourne Gas Works, 1855Collins St. Melb West South Side Corner Elizabeth St. looking West 1855The City of Melbourne, Australia, 1855

1856 5 photos

The Governor Hotham Hotel, Burwood Road, Hawthorn, 1856Keilor Melbourne, 1856?John Cramp's invoice to Mr. Gilks, Collingwood, Oct. 1856Melbourne, 1856 G. StraffordHouses of Parliament, Melbourne - Legislative Council Hall, 1856

1857 13 photos

Great Bourke Street, looking East from Queen Street, 1857St. Peter's Church (Episcopalian), Melbourne, 1857St. Francis' Cathedral (Roman Catholice), Melbourne, 1857The new Treasury, Melbourne, 1857?Township of Keilor from South side of Bridge, 1857Entrance to Port Phillip, 1857Prince's Bridge & City Terminus of M. & H. B. Railway, Melbourne, 1857The University of Melbourne, 1857Gt. [i.e. Great] Collins St. looking East from Wesleyan Chapel, Melbourne, 1857City Police Station and Town Hall, Melbourne, 1857Government Offices, Melbourne, 1857Sandridge, Williams Town [i.e. Williamstown], from Railway Pier, 1857Approach to Richmond, from north bank of Yarra Yarra, 1857

220 historic photos of Melbourne from the 1850s, by year, then those the library dates to a span of years. All are from State Library Victoria; each photo links to its original record.