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Melbourne City in the 1860s

244 photos

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
Chief Secretary's office and Government offices, William street, Melbourne, 1860–701860–70Mr. F. Malpas, accountant & collector, at Mr Leith's, Collins Place, 11 Collins St. West, Melbourne, 1851–801851–80Cocker Brothers, warehousemen, and importers of general drapery, 59 Little Collins Street East, near the Police Office, Melbourne, 1851–801851–80With compliments from Henry Young & Co., goldsmiths & jewellers, 53 Collins Street, Melbourne, 1851–801851–80Botanical Gardens - Melbourne, c. 1865c. 1865View in Botanical Gardens - Melbourne, c. 1865c. 1865National Bank, Collins Street [Melbourne, Vic.], 1860–701860–70Melbourne General Post Office under construction, c. 1865c. 1865[Premises of Dr. William R. Pugh, surgeon and oculist, 131 Collins Street East, Melbourne], c. 1865c. 1865Bourke Street East, Melbourne, 18651865Batchelder's Portrait Rooms, 41 Collins Street East, Melbourne, 1860–701860–70Bourke Street west, 18661866Post Office Melbourne prior to completion 1868, 18661866Collins Street, c. 1866c. 1866Bourke Street west, 18661866Collins Street, 1863–691863–69Collins Street east, 18661866General Post Office, Melbourne, 1863–701863–70Exhibit by Walsh Brothers of Collins Street-East and Levy Brothers of Melbourne, 1866–671866–67Melbourne Hospital, 1863–701863–70View of buildings, 61-63 Bourke St. East, Melbourne, c. 1866c. 1866Portrait photographs from John Gaul of Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, 1866–671866–67Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Portrait photographs from John Gaul of Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, 1866–671866–67Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Portrait photographs from John Gaul of Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, 1866–671866–67Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Bourke Street East from the westward 18661866Collins Street from the Treasury looking west 18661866Flinders Lane looking east from Elizabeth St. 18661866Melbourne Public Library, masterplan reduced copy, 18661866Queen Street [Sebastopol], 18661866Melbourne Public Library, Victoria, 1856–761856–76Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Portrait photographs of men by Archibald McDonald, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1864–691864–69Portrait photographs from John Gaul of Swanston Street, Melbourne, Vic, 1866–671866–67Princes Bridge at the time of Prince Alfred's visit in 18671867Melbourne streets, 18671867Locomotive sheds Spencer Street opposite Collins Street, 18671867Elizabeth Street looking south from Bourke Street, c. 1867c. 1867Post Office, Melbourne, c. 1867c. 1867H R H Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh Laying the Foundation Stone of the Melbourne Town HAll 18671867Inauguration of the statue of Sir William Stevenson K.C.B. [Mauritius], 1863–721863–72The New General Post Office, Melbourne, Victoria, 1867?1867?Rubbing of the front cover and spine of an album presented to Edward La Touche Bateman by the trustees of the Melbourne Public Library, 1867?1867?Buckley & Nunn, 27 Bourke Street East, Melbourne, 1865–691865–69Collins Street, East, 1865–701865–70Mr Brockenshaw?, sub-librarian, Public Library Melbourne, 1867–681867–68Collins Street, East, 1865–701865–70General Post Office, Melbourne, Victoria, 1867?1867?Flinders Street, Melbourne, c. 1867c. 1867Swanston Street, Melbourne, looking south from Collins Street, c. 1867c. 1867Swanston Street, Melbourne, between Collins and Flinders Streets, east side, c. 1867c. 1867Fish Market, corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne, c. 1867c. 1867Argus Office, 76 Collins Street East, Melbourne, 18671867Princes Bridge, decorated in honour of the visit of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 18671867Deaf & dumb Institute, St. Kilda Road, 1866–691866–69Globe Hotel corner Little Bourke and Swanston Street, c. 1868c. 1868Wesleyan Church, Melbourne, c. 1868c. 1868
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