Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, East Melbourne

State Library of Victoria record:

Title: [Old Treasury Building, Spring Street, Melbourne] [picture].
Author/Creator: John Henry Harvey 1855-1938,
Date(s): [between 1875 and 1938]
Description: 1 negative : glass, stereograph ; 12 x 17 cm. (half-plate)
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Terms of use: No copyright restrictions apply.
Identifier(s): Accession no(s) H2011.40/26
Subjects: Treasury Building (Melbourne, Vic.) -- Pictorial works ; Public buildings -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Pictorial works ; Historic buildings -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Pictorial works ; Glass negatives ; Stereographs
Index terms: Australia; Victoria; Melbourne; Spring Street; Old Treasury Building; historic buildings
Notes: Title assigned by cataloguer.
Not signed or dated.
Photographer's reference number inscribed on verso l.l.: 1593
Contents/Summary: Designed by a 19 year old architect, John James Clark, Renaissance Revival architecture, completed in 1962; veiwed from across the road, includes statue of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Source/Donor: Gift ; Miss A. M. Coath ; 1938.
Related works: Series: J. H. Harvey collection of lantern slides.
Biographical/Historical note: Born in Melbourne; architect; worked 38 years with the Public Works Department of Victoria; Fellow of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects; Fellow of the the Royal Australian Instuitute of Architects; Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Honorary Editor of the Journal of the R.V.I.A for many years; died at his home in East Melbourne, aged 83.
Link to digitised item: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/149941
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