1874 Spring Street looking South from Lonsdale Street Treasury Building The New Opera House

The New Opera House

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looking east from Queen Street from the tower of Dr Fitzgerald's residence "Rostella" in Lonsdale Street West

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A group of indigenous people stand at the margins of the town

1874 Spring Street looking South from Lonsdale Street Treasury Building The New Opera HouseA photograph in 1874 of Spring Street, unusually looking south from Lonsdale Street. Parliament House is hidden behind the trees on the left (eastern) side of Spring Street. Way off to the south, across the Yarra, we can faintly see Government House, with its tower yet to be added. On the western side of Spring Street we can identify a number of properties from Collins Street up to Little Bourke Street. We have prepared an image highlighting these