1890s Spring Street from the Treasury steps William Street Looking West along Collins Street

Looking West along Collins Street

A very detailed perspective image of Melbourne in 1855

Items of interest are numbered with legend printed below image as follows: 1

Horse drawn carriages can be seen on road to left and parked at roadsides"

The Old White Hart Hotel seen in the 1858 photograph here

1890s Spring Street from the Treasury steps William Street Looking West along Collins StreetA beautiful vista of Spring Street at the end of the 19th century, taken from the steps of the Treasury building. This photograph was one of many of early Melbourne taken by John William Lindt in the 1890s, when Melbourne had established itself as one of the world's most significant cities. The magnificent "Grand Hotel" (later renamed as "Hotel Windsor") is in the centre of the image. The monument to General Charles George Gordon was erected in 1889