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St George and the Dragon, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

Images of the St George and the Dragon bronze statue at the entrance to the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. The statue is the work of Viennese-born sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm. It was purchased by the State Library of Victoria for the sum of…

Preparing for the Exhibition â€“ Gilding the Dome

In this article, an update is provided on repainting work being carried out at the Exhibition Building in Melbourne in the lead up to the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition. The most difficult task being undertaken as part of this redecoration,…

Preparing for the Exhibition â€“ Gilding the Dome (Illustration)

An illustration of painters gilding the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. This task was undertaken in association with other contracted repainting and redecorating work in the lead-up to the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition.…

Illustration of St Paul's Church, Melbourne

Depiction of St Paul's Anglican Church, Melbourne. The architectural style is typical of the gothic revival style common in Britain and the British colonies throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Tags: Anglican, Anglican church, architecture, Church, engraving, engravings, F.A. Sleap, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, saint, Saint Paul, St Paul, St. Paul, Victoria

Extracts from the Melbourne Newspaper, The Argus

A series of extracts from The Argus ranging from 1878 to 1880. They tell of the Kelly Gang's exploits and their encounters with colonial Victorian law enforcement. A few of the extracts towards the end of the list include descriptions of the…

Tags: Armour, Australian landscape, bush, bushranger, bushrangers, crime, criminal, Edward Kelly, Kelly Gang, knight, knights, landscape, law, legal, legend, legends, media, Melbourne, myth, mythology, Ned Kelly, police, stealing, theft

A Visit to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, St. Kilda Road

A link to an engraving taken from The Illustrated Australian News depicting the gothic architectural design of the 'Deaf and Dumb Asylum'. The building, now the Victorian College for the Deaf, is on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran.…

Tags: architecture, asylum, blue-stone, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic Revival, gothic style, lancet window, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Prahran, Saint Kilda, spire, St Kilda, tower, turret, Vic, Victoria

Female Servantâ€™s Revolt

This illustration is an early reference to the beginnings of the eight-hour movement. One of the first marches took place in Melbourne in 1856, when the Stonemasons working on the build of the University of Melbourne, marched to Parliament protesting…

Tags: Eight Hour Day, Eight-hour day movement, freedom of labour, labour, labourer, Melbourne, Melbourne 888, Peasants Revolt, revolution, women servants, work, worker, working class

Melbourne's Centennial International Exhibition by Night

An image of the Royal Exhibition Building lit up at night during the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888, from the Illustrated Australian News. The Royal Exhibition Building was designed by architect Joseph Reed and completed in 1880. The…

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