Old Melbourne

1950 60 photos

Weeds grow over rusty tram [railway?] lines in Richmond tram yards [during strike], 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, in vicinity of nos. 18-30, 1950Eagle Alley, from Little Leichardt Street to Lonsdale Street, 1950"Skoda Distributors Pty. Ltd., formerly Interstate Car Buyers, 307-311 LaTrobe Street, Melbourne", c. 1950"Steelweld Pty. Ltd., Ashley Street, Braybrook", c. 1950Spring Street - west side, north of no. 285, 1950Austin Motor Company, 109 Dudley Street, West Melbourne, c. 1950"Earls Court Ballroom, St. Kilda, showing installation of new parquetry dance floor", c. 1950Exhibition Street - east side, at north-east corner with Little Lonsdale Street, 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, nos. 50-56, 1950Mr. G. Lorimer and his son, with his team of bullocks hauling logs in the forest at Dixon's Creek, 32 miles from Melbourne, 1950Crowds on beach, St. Kilda, Vic, 1950?"Skoda Distributors Pty. Ltd., formerly Interstate Car Buyers, 307-311 LaTrobe Street, Melbourne", c. 1950"Skoda Distributors Pty. Ltd., formerly Interstate Car Buyers, 307-311 LaTrobe Street, Melbourne", c. 1950People queueing in foyer of Hoyts Barkly Theatre, Footscray, 1950Ticket box and automatic turnstile in foyer of Hoyts Barkly Theatre, Footscray, 1950Little Leichardt Street - west side, looking north from nos. 21-25, R.J. Hutchens & Sons factory, to Little Lonsdale Street, 1950Little Lonsdale Street - south side, at corner with Little Leichardt Street, 1950"Earls Court Ballroom, St. Kilda, showing installation of new parquetry dance floor", c. 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, looking west from corner of Spring Street, 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, 32-40 Lonsdale Street, 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, in vicinity of 46-52 Lonsdale Street, 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, at corner with Leichardt Street, 1950Registrar General's and Titles Office, 283 Queen Street, Melbourne, c. 1950Foyer of the Australia Cinema and Tatler Newsreel Theatre and stairs to Collins Street, 1950Little Lonsdale Street - south side, at corner with Casselden Place, 1950"Heidelberg Printing Press Mobile Service Unit, Seligson & Clare Australia Ltd.", c. 1950"Heidelberg Printing Press Mobile Service Unit, Seligson & Clare Australia Ltd.", c. 1950Little Lonsdale Street - south side, west from no. 63 W. Crowe, woodworker, 1950Port Melbourne, Vic, 1950?Keilor, near Maribyrnong River, Vict, 1950?"Keilor, near Maribyrnong River, Vict.", 1950?Ringwood, Melbourne, Vic, 1950?"Steelweld Pty. Ltd., Ashley Street, Braybrook", c. 1950Motor Show, Melbourne, 1950Aerial view of Melbourne looking south east Victoria, 1950Joseph Lucas Pty. Ltd., commercial premises, 81 Bouverie Street, Carlton, c. 1950Capitol House, Swanston Street, Melbourne, designed by Walter Burley Griffin, c. 1950Lonsdale Street - north side, 38-46 Lonsdale Street, 1950The corner of Latrobe and Exhibition Streets, Melbourne, 1950Bedggood shoe factory, East Melbourne, 1950Spring Street - west side, near corner with Little Lonsdale Street, showing Church of England Mission House, 1950Exhibition Street - east side, at north-east Corner with Little Lonsdale Street, 1950Finn Place from Little Lonsdale Street, 1950?Glimpse of the Fitzroy Gardens, 1950?Reinforcements listen eagerly while Pte V. Kelly, of Elwood, Vic., (right) puts them in the picture, 1950Cathedral room at the E.S.& A. Bank, Collins Street, Melbourne, 1950Bruck Mills stand at fashion fair in Melbourne, 1950Cadet Midshipman J. C. Waller from Hawthorn, Victoria, c. 1950Interior of Albion Metalware, Richmond, manufacture of religious goods, 1950Bruck Mills stand at fashion fair in Melbourne, 1950Winning Victorian cricket team Easter Cricket Carnival interstate cricket match against Victoria at Melbourne High School, 1950Cathedral room at the E.S.& A. Bank, Collins Street, Melbourne, 1950Pte. Norman Taugge on stretcher being carried from T.A.A. aircraft, Essendon, Victoria, c. 1950Pte. Jack Morrison of Melbourne, on the vickers gun ..., Korea, c. 1950Interior of Albion Metalware, Richmond, manufacture of religious goods, 1950Machinery by F.N. Bethune Pty Ltd Melbourne, 1950One of the ground crew, L.A.C. J. Fisher [Richmond, Vic.] loading machine-gun belts preparatory to a sortie, c. 1950The R.S.M., W.O. W.J. Harrison ... of Coburg, Vic., addresses new reinforcements who have just joined the unit from Australia, 1950Time of for a trim, Private Jeff Binder, of Hawthorn (VIc.) watches the unofficial, inexperienced barber of the unit, 1950

2,568 historic photos of Melbourne from the 1950s, 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.