Views

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 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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Birds Eye View of Melbourne showing Public Offices and Gardens: St Kilda in the distance- c1880

Coloured lithograph. Aerial view of Melbourne from a point just north of Victoria Parade looking towards Port Phillip Bay. Prominent East Melbourne features include St Patrick's Cathedral and nearby churches, the various government and parliament buildings, Treasury Gardens and t...

Two copy photographs taken from 'the Streets of Melbourne from Early Photographs' published by The Herald and Weekly Times, 1984. One shows view down Macarthur Street with Parliament House to the left and the Treasury to the right, St. Patrick's Cathedral is in the distance. The...

Newspaper clippings outline the changes to Melbourne in preparation for the Commonwealth Games. Sites in East Melbourne include MCG, Hilton Hotel, MCG Hotel, Jolimont Station, new footbridge. Photos, including aerial shot of Melbourne covering inner suburbs.

Aerial view of East Melbourne taken by Lands Department 11 December 1974.

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East Melbourne, Aerial view - 1962

BW photo. Aerial view shows Fitzroy, East Melbourne, City. 1962. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H92.20/7247).

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

BW photo. Fitzroy Gardens, poplar avenue. 1920c. Internet print. (SLV, picture collection accession no. H32492/7449.

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East Melbourne, George Street - 1910c.

BW photo. George Street, bottom block, looking west. Shows elm trees in street. C. 1910.

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East Melbourne, Gisborne Street - 1913c

BW photo. Gisborne Street - looking south. 1913-1914. Probably taken from the Melbourne Fire Brigade lookout tower. St Peter's Church, on the corner of Gisborne and Albert Streets, is in the immediate foreground.

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East Melbourne, Grey Street - 1910c

BW photo. Grey Street, looking south. Shows plane trees in street. C. 1910.

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East Melbourne, Macarthur Street

BW photo. Macarthur Street, East Melbourne, looking north east from Carpentaria Place.

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East Melbourne, view from roof of building at 100 Wellington Parade

BW photo. Circa 1975. View looking north east from roof of 100 Wellington Parade. Janet Terrace at top centre.roof top of 129 George Street in foreground.

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Gipps Street, c.1954

A digital copy of a coloured slide. The photo is taken looking east down Gipps Street, East Melbourne. On the right are Nos. 123, 125 and 127 Gipps Street.

Melbourne from the Yarra. Shows the river in the foreground with a ferry and passengers leaving the landing. In the distance is the city dominated by the spires of the Independent Church and Scots Church. Possibly the area now knows as Birrarung Marr.

Newspaper clipping. A reproduction of an engraving of an aerial view of Melbourne in 1866. Shows Powlett Street, Clarendon Street, Fitzroy Gardens, Yarra Park, Jolimont. The Sunday Age, 3 November 2002.

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Panoramic View of Melbourne - 1888c

Lithograph. Very wide angle panoramic view of Melbourne. St Patrick's Cathedral in the immediate foreground with East Melbourne churches, schools and government buildings also prominent. Looking west with the You Yangs on the horizon. Image scanned directly from "Album of Melbour...

Selected images reproduced from the book, Reflections, 150 Years of The Age, published by Transworld Publishers, 2004. Includes photos of city by James Noone in 1871 from a high point, possibly Parliament House roof. Sporting identities at East Melbourne sporting grounds. Pope Pa...

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River vista

Proof photo on non-photographic paper. Scene from river bank towards city. The location would now be Birrarung Marr. Man sitting on park bench and reading a newspaper in foreground.

An artist's impression of Eastern Hill and Fitzroy in the late 1880s,viewed from St. Patrick's Cathedral, looking down Morrison Place and Brunswick Street, and showing old Victorian Artists' Society building and its neighbours.

Photo is taken from the roof of house at 166 Wellington Parade and shows the top of the house's turret in foreground, and view over Yarra Park and the Melbourne Cricket Ground beyond. Government House and the Shrine are in the distance. Photo is very blurred.

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View from Mercy Maternity Hospital

Photo taken from Mercy Maternity Hospital gives view over Fitzroy Gardens with St. Andrew's Hospital, St. Patrick's Cathedral and Eastern Hill in the background.

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View from Parliament House towards Fitzroy - 1865c

BW photo. View from Parliament House over Albert Street towards Fitzroy. Carlton Gardens are in the distance. Shows 6 terrace houses, C & J Smith Collingwood Saw Mills and Timber Yard, C. White & Co. Brassfounders and Gasfitters, R. Hyde & Co. Marine Storemen, Baptist Church with...