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East Melbourne, Fitzroy Gardens, Poplar Avenue - 1930c.

East Melbourne

  • Poplar Avenue, Fitzroy Gardens
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Acquisition number
89
Catalogue number
emvf0089
File name
VF89
File location
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BW photo. Fitzroy Gardens, poplar avenue. 1920c. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H32492/7449.

Item type
Photograph
Photographer
not known
Date of publication or creation
1950c

History of item

State Library of Victoria record:
POPLAR AVENUE, FITZROY GARDENS, MELBOURNE, VIC. [picture]
Rose Stereograph Co
[c1920-1954]
Title: POPLAR AVENUE, FITZROY GARDENS, MELBOURNE, VIC. [picture]
Author/Creator: Rose Stereograph Co
Date(s): [c1920-1954]
Description: negative : glass ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm. approx.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H32492/7449
Subjects: Postcards
Related works: Series: Rose series; P. 10753.; Rose postcard collection of negatives.
Link to digitised item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/66434
Link to this record: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vi...

Dating the picture:
The "Lombardy Poplar Walk" was planted in 1897 by Guilfoyle. (see http://www.fitzroygardens.com/History.htm#1897 ) In this picture the trees are mature. The glass negative and the quality dates the picture earlier rather than later in the period given by the SLV above.

Owner of original
State Library of Victoria
Copyright owner
State Library of Victoria
Year acquired
2002
Donor
Rymer, Ros, 5th Floor, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000

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