1874 Queen Street looking South from Collins Street AC Cooke The Royal Exhibition Buildings (1879)

The Royal Exhibition Buildings (1879)

sited just east of the location of the bridge in the photo

On the right of the photo we see two well-dressed ladies passing Richardson's Hotel at 174 Bourke Street located on the north-east corner of Russell Street

Peter Rodger

Notes from the State Library tell us that this is a "Painting executed after 1836

1874 Queen Street looking South from Collins Street AC Cooke The Royal Exhibition Buildings (1879)A photograph in 1874 of Queen Street looking south from Collins Street. Queen Street ends at Flinders Street, but beyond that we see a wooden Sandridge Railway Bridge crossing the Yarra, with industrial buildings on the south bank, and the homes of Emerald Hill (South Melbourne) rising in the far distance. The substantial building on the south east (left) corner is the Union Bank Building, the south west (right) corner accommodates the Imperial Fire