1885 Views of MelbourneCombined views of Melbourne in 1885, printed on one sheet in Harper's Weekly, showing in the centre a visualisation of the future site of Melbourne in 1835, with a number of public buildings surrounding it, viz. "Public Offices and Treasury Gardens", "Post Office", "Government House", "Town Hall", "Exhibition Building" and the "Public Library". All text HotPress Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Page from: Harper's Weekly (New

hotels - Rigby's Council Club Family Hotel

now used as an Immigration Museum

The photo was taken on the corner of William Street and Little Lonsdale Street

on the south-east corner of its intersection with Spencer Street

Compare this view with a similar one in 1861 here

the Government Botanist

The three-storey building to its east is the building that houses the Melbourne Club

This photograph shows the Yarra falls (the rocks in the foreground) being removed in 1883

criminals and sly grog shops

marked with steamers routes and nautical miles

and it is probably him that we can see up on the bridge

PLEASE NOTE: This is a square print