1874 Queen Street looking South from Collins Street AC Cooke Our team of conservators have

Our team of conservators have worked on a high resolution digital image in order to remove age-related  damage caused by the handling and storage of the original

during the first land auction

The Royal Exhibition Buildings (1879)

By 1890 the shops and factories that face Queen Street would be demolished to make way for a couple of Melbourne's most beautiful and impressive buildings

1874 Queen Street looking South from Collins Street AC Cooke Our team of conservators haveA photograph in 1874 of Queen Street looking south from Collins Street. Queen Street ends at Flinders Street, but beyond that we see a wooden Sandridge Railway Bridge crossing the Yarra, with industrial buildings on the south bank, and the homes of Emerald Hill (South Melbourne) rising in the far distance. The substantial building on the south east (left) corner is the Union Bank Building, the south west (right) corner accommodates the Imperial Fire