1920s A Fleeting Gleam Melbourne 1800-1820 whose architectural style graced every

whose architectural style graced every street in the CBD

A man with a bicycle stands in the right foreground

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1920s A Fleeting Gleam Melbourne 1800-1820 whose architectural style graced everyAn atmospheric image of shipping on the Yarra River by John Kauffman, sometime in the early 1920s, looking east with the tower and dome of Flinders Street Station off in the distance. Melbourne was only ninety years old, yet was one of the major cities in the British Empire at the time. John Kauffman was one of the primary exponents of pictorialism in Australia. One newspaper claimed that his photographs that could be "mistaken for works of art". His