1890s Swanston Street Melbourne Panoramas Notes from the State Library

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is of a "View looking across street to a theatre

A significant photograph of Number 1 Collins Street

Horse drawn carriages

as part of a set of panoramas

surveyed and drawn by Robert Russell (with his signature in the lower right corner)

1890s Swanston Street Melbourne Panoramas Notes from the State LibraryA photograph of Swanston Street looking north across Princes Bridge around the 1890s. We can see the earlier Flinders Street Station building on the left, and we know that construction of the new Station started in 1900, so that dates this photograph just at the end of the 19th century. St. Paul's Cathedral was also completed to this point by 1891, so the photograph has to be after that date. On the north side of the Station building is the Princes