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A loss to the community
Newspaper clipping recording the death of Jonathan Gianfreda, butcher and smallgoods specialist who lived in East Melbourne.
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A new look for JJ Clark's house
Newspaper clipping describing the renovations undertaken at 104 Gipps Street, the former home of JJ Clark, architect of the Old Treasuryds building in Spring Street. The text is similar to that in another article but the photos are different (see link below).
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A private treasury open for all gardeners to see
Newspaper clipping about gardens featured in the booklet, 'A Celebration of Gardens in Victoria'. The gardens listed were to be open to the public during the year. The scheme was created as part of Victoria's 150th birthday celebrations. It has continued each year since as the Vi...
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A way with the fairies
Newspaper article about sculptor, Ola Cohn's creation of the Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens. Photos.
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AAMI Park
Newspaper clippings about new plans for sporting precinct. Gosch's Paddock to be used by Collingwood and Melbourne Football Clubs for training; new rugby league and soccer stadium (temporarily known as the rectangular stadium) to be built near Olympic Park. Includes an associated...
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ABC-TV at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Colour photo shows three blue and white transport vehicles clearly labelled as belonging to ABC Channel 2. They are parked outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Abandoned Melbourne
A collection of photographs taken during Melbourne's first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Gavin John, an established landscape photographer, turned his talents to scenes closer to home. Well-known sites around Melbourne, normally buzzing with people, are shown deserted. The forms and...
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Aborigines
Information about aboriginal tribes from the Melbourne area.
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Abortion clinics and exclusion zones
Newspaper clippings about the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, and others, and a bill to be brought in that will ban protesters to a 150 metre exclusion zone around the clinics. Age editorial, 3 September 2015 Safeguarding women by Miki Perkins, The Age, 5 September 2015. Rank an...
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Abortion clinics win exclusion zones
Laws past in 2015 that make illegal to harass people within 150 metres of abortion providers came into effect on Monday 2 May 2016. Anti-abortion advocates produced a flyer which was circulated throughout East Melbourne in protest against the new laws. This was picked up by The S...
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Accommodation
List of accommodation options, some in East Melbourne.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon statue
Newspaper article about Adam Lindsay Gordon and his statue in Gordon Reserve.
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Advertising The Hilton
Newspaper clipping advertises The Hilton's facilities as a conference and seminar venue. One of its attributes was the ability to wheel an aeroplane into its Grand Ballroom. The Hilton is now The Pullman on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
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Aerial Photograph of Yarra Park and MCG 1928
Aerial Photo of Yarra Park and MCG looking west from a point above Punt Road Oval. Taken in 1928 by Charles Daniel Pratt.
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Aerial map of Melbourne - 1945
Aerial map of Melbourne and southern inner suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne East - 1945
Aerial map of Melbourne inner eastern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial map of Melbourne North - 1945
Aerial map of Melbourne inner northern suburbs created by the Department of Lands and Survey from a mosaic of aerial photos taken in 1945.
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Aerial photo of Cliveden Mansion - 1924c
Aerial view of Cliveden Mansions on the corner of Wellington Parade and Clarendon Street, Fitzroy Gardens on left, mansion in Jolimont Terrace visible in right foreground.
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Aerial view of East Melbourne and surrounds
Detail of large aerial photo in colour shows inner Melbourne from Edinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy in the north to Port Phillip Bay in the south, and from Abbotsford in the east to the docks in the west.
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Aerial view of Melbourne - 1945
Aerial view of Melbourne looking west-south-west from a point approximately above the intersection of Hoddle and Gipps Streets. Visible are significant parts of East Melbourne, the Yarra River, the Jolimont railway yards, and the city of Melbourne fading into the distance. The or...
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Aerial view of Melbourne looking east towards East Melbourne - 1938
BW photo. Aerial view of city looking east, East Melbourne in distance. Circa 1938. Digital image from glass negative approx. 10.0x12.5 cm. Original is very faded. Contrast has been adjusted digitally. (State Library of Victoria, picture collection accession no. H91.160/536).
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Aerial view of St. Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne - 1945c.
Postcard of aerial photograph of St Patrick's Cathedral, East Melbourne circa 1945. Scanned by the State Library of Victoria from a glass negative.
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Agent to call in lawyers as squatters take over
Photocopied newspaper clipping about squatters occupying Eastbourne House on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street and the four houses next door in Simpson Street, all under the one ownership. It was the first occupation of private premises by the Squatters' Union si...
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Agents of Change: women's social reform networks in Melbourne 1890-1940
An occasional paper given to the Friends of the Library (Queen's College). Vida Goldstein is one of the women mentioned. She was a pupil at PLC.