1871 Port Melbourne PierBeautiful photo by Charles Nettleton of the activity on Port Melbourne Pier in 1871 when Melbourne was one of the largest and leading cities of the world. You can almost smell the mix of sea, steam and burning coal. The exposure took quite a few seconds, and you can see that some people have moved, as well as the bobbing of the ships caused by the sea swell. Past the end of the pier, off in the distance across Hobson's Bay you can see Point Gellibrand

Photograph is attributed to the Darge Photographic Company

Further along Beach Street is the Freemason's Tavern

the ES&A Bank

For many years

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is of "Collins Street showing the entrance to the Block Arcade

On 1 October 1866 the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited commenced business in Victoria in this spacious building in Collins Street

and both images have been merged by HotPress Images to create one image

Additions to the map were made in 1831

James Montgomery Flagg

This was a huge project

The image was part of a stereograph

with David Jones Ltd buying the business in 1981