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Melbourne City in the 1850s

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1830s 4 1840s 5 1850s 73 1860s 244 1870s 281 1880s 441 1890s 295 1900s 1305 1910s 565 1920s 558 1930s 833 1940s 1398 1950s 624 1970s 8 1980s 4
View of opening of the Princes Bridge, Melbourne, on Friday 15th November 18501850Police Office, Melbourne, 18501850St. Paul's Church Melbourne, 18501850The condemned Princes bridge opened Nov 15th 18501850Princes Bridge, Melbourne, c. 1850c. 1850Princes Bridge.18501850View of opening of the Princes Bridge, Melbourne, on Friday 15th November 1850 : To commemorate the arrival of Separation1850Old Princes Bridge, [Melbourne, Vic.], 18511851The Public Library, Melbourne, 1850–551850–55St. Paul's Church Melbourne, c. 1852c. 1852Commercial premises of McEwan & Houston, Ironmongers, 77 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, 1852–531852–53The ferry, Melbourne, 18531853Prince's Bridge (from south side of Yarra), Melbourne, 18531853Prince's Bridge (from south side of Yarra), Melbourne, 18531853Collins Street (Looking West from Russell St.), 18531853The junction of Elizabeth & Lonsdale Sts Melbourne, 18531853Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 18531853The Post Office, Melbourne, 18531853Collins St. looking west from Russell St [Melbourne], 18531853Collins Street, Melbourne, 18531853Collins Street (Looking West from Russel St.), 18531853The Queen's Wharf, Melbourne, 18541854Turner's General Printing Office, Swanston Street, Melbourne, 1854, letter-press and lithographic printer1854Police Court House & Town Hall, Swanston St, Melbourne, 18541854Blank invoice for Paper Warehouse, number 39, Flinders Lane East, Melbourne, bought of E. L. Robinson, terms cash on delivery, 1850s1850sBlank invoices, Melbourne, bought of Edmund Westby and Company and bought of Alexander McCalla, 1850s1850sInvoice from G. R. Brice (late John Kendall), 5 Little Bourke Street West, and at Clyde Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne, wholesale and retail beef and pork butcher, 1850s1850sUnidentified street, possibly Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 1844–651844–65Criterion Hotel, Collins Street, [Melbourne, Vic.], 1850s1850sSALLE DE VALENTINO BOURKE STREET EAST 1854 [Melbourne]1854Flinders St. 18541854City of Melbourne From the South Bank of the Yarra Yarra looking North West, 18541854Flinders St. 18541854James G. Beaney Esq. F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital etc. etc, c. 1855c. 1855Melbourne, from the South East, looking to Princes' Bridge and West Melbourne, 18551855Princes Bridge, Melbourne, 18551855Hall of Commerce Melbourne, 18551855Collins St. Melb West South Side Corner Elizabeth St. looking West 18551855Hickinbotham's Drapery Establishment, Melbourne Stringer, Mason & Co, 1852–611852–61Great Bourke Street, looking East from Queen Street, 18571857The new Treasury, Melbourne, 1857?1857?Prince's Bridge & City Terminus of M. & H. B. Railway, Melbourne, 18571857Gt. [i.e. Great] Collins St. looking East from Wesleyan Chapel, Melbourne, 18571857St. Francis' Cathedral, Melbourne, 18571857St. Paul's Church from south end of Swanston St., Melbourne, 18571857First Druggist's Shop in Melbourne: Collins Street, East. [Lewis & Bowen], 18571857New Year's Day. Pic-nic on the banks of the Yarra, opposite the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, 18581858View of Melbourne from south side of River Yarra, 18581858Swanston Street, from the corner of Collins Street, looking north - about the year 1858, c. 1858c. 1858The Church of England Grammar School, St Kilda Road, South Melbourne, 18581858Bourke Street [looking west from Spring Street], 18581858View of Melbourne from south side of River Yarra, 18581858The Church of England Grammar School, St Kilda Road, South Melbourne, 18581858The Church of England Grammar School, St Kilda Road, South Melbourne, 18581858The new Post Office, Melbourne, 18581858The new Post Office, Melbourne, 18581858The new Post Office, Melbourne, 18581858Bourke Street Melbourne, looking west from Spring Street, 1858–591858–59Melbourne Savings Bank, 18581858The Public Library, Melbourne, 1858?1858?
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