1874 La Trobe Street looking West from Swanston StreetA photograph in 1874 of La Trobe Street looking west from Swanston Street. The hotel on the left corner is W. Bassett's "Traveller's Home". All text HotPress Photographer was Charles Bayliss. This is a digitally retouched reproduction of the original held by the State Library of New South Wales. All prints are reproduced without the HOTPRESS watermarks. Our team of conservators have worked on a high resolution digital image in order to remove

] Warehousemen' in distance on right

Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 Augt

and land boom speculator and politician B

restoring it back to a very close representation of the original image

so that the information is readable

Scotland around 1848 and commenced her work in Melbourne between 1850-1854 and was in use for around 75 years

Commonly known as the "The Gothic Bank"

A reproduction of a map published around 1900 showing Port Phillip Bay and the towns and places that surround the Bay

Then known as No

The building was constructed for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880

and finally ceased publication in 1957

a Melbourne institution