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Melbourne in the 1920s

2,495 photos

Sometime around the 1920s 60 photos

The library dates these to a span of years that takes in this decade. Each shows its span.

Spring Street at the steps of Treasury Building, Melbourne, Vic, 1910–301910–30Maribyrnong River, Maribyrnong, 1910–301910–30Oakrood Tea Gardens, St. Kilda, 1910–301910–30Hampton, 1910–301910–30Church play, South Caulfield Presbyterian Church, Bambra Rd, 1910–301910–30Sunset at Hampton, 1910–301910–30Fish feed at Black Rock, 1910–301910–30Christ Church, St. Kilda, 1910–301910–30The Bluff Sandringham, 1910–301910–30The Melbourne Hospital, 1910–301910–30FREMIET (E.) - Jeanne d'Arc. NATIONAL GALLERY, MELBOURNE, 1910–301910–30The Reading Room. PUBLIC LIBRARY, MELBOURNE, 1910–301910–30The Block,' Collins Street, looking east from Elizabeth Street, 1917–231917–23The Picturesque Approach to Hawthorn Glen, 1910–301910–30A Beautiful Bend of the Yarra beyond Abbotsford Convent. Shady with willow wooing the gently-flowing waters, 1910–301910–30HIPPOPOTAMI. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MELBOURNE, 1910–301910–30"INDIAN ELEPHANT" ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MELBOURNE, 1910–301910–30GIRAFFES. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, MELBOURNE, 1910–301910–30Spencer Street Railway Station, 1915–251915–25Ormond College, University of Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Keilor Iron or Basket Bridge, Victoria, 1910–301910–30Collins Street, Melbourne, looking east from Market Street, 1910–301910–30Collins Street, Melbourne, looking west from Russell Street, 1910–301910–30School cadets firing at the Williamstown Rifle Range, 1911–291911–29St. Kilda Baths, 1910–301910–30Melbourne, looking east toward Princes Bridge from Yarra bank, 1910–301910–30Men sawing logs into small lengths at Bryant & May factory in Richmond, 1910–301910–30St. Kilda, 1916–251916–25Paddlesteamer 'Melbourne' moored to bank, Murray River, 1910–301910–30Splint Cutting from Hoop Pine Richmond, 1910–301910–30Collins Street, Melbourne, looking west, between Russell and Swanston Streets, 1910–301910–30Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1910–301910–30Russell Street Police Station, 1910–301910–30St. Paul's Cathedral, corner Swanston and Flinders Street, Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Hawthorn Railway Bridge, Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Theatre Royal Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Oakrood Tea Gardens, St. Kilda, 1910–301910–30Tennis players at 'Aberdour', Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda, 1910–301910–30Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from Queen Street, 1910–301910–30National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 1910–301910–30G.P.O. Melbourne, from the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, 1910–301910–30"St James' Old Cathedral, 419 King Street, Melbourne", 1910–301910–30Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, looking south from Lonsdale Street, 1910–301910–30Five storey building on the corner of Bourke and William Streets, Melbourne, 1910–301910–30Collins Street, Melbourne, looking easterly towards Elizabeth Street, 1910–301910–30Small girl and postman outside gate of "Craigallan", Moonee Ponds, 1910–301910–30Monument erected to the memory of John Batman in the first Melbourne Cemetery, 1918–241918–24Monument erected to the memory of John Batman in the first Melbourne Cemetery, 1918–241918–24Railway viaduct crossing Flinders St., [Melbourne, Vic.], 1919–231919–23McMeckan Building, Scotch College, Hawthorn, Victoria, 1915–281915–28Canterbury Street, Ascot Vale Road, 1915–281915–28Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, 1915–281915–28Federation styled house, corner of Canterbury Street and Ascot Vale Road, Flemington, 1915–281915–28Edzell House, Toorak, 1915–281915–28Marble Staircase. PUBLIC LIBRARY, MELBOURNE, 1913–301913–30Collins St. [Melbourne], 1919–231919–23Alexr Ave. [i.e. Alexandra Avenue Melbourne], 1919–231919–23Anastasia Manjos (nee Amonis) with her first child, Mary in Australia 1921-22, (Melbourne), 1921–221921–22Princes Bdge i.e. Princes Bridge Melbourne, 1919–231919–23
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2,495 historic photos of Melbourne from the 1920s, 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.

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