Unit TypeSolander 1 IdentifierUMA-UN-000031428Accession[1979.0115] Consolidated Records of Repco LtdDescriptionOne photo album that features machinery and a loose photo that shows the interior of a store (probably Repco, Elizabeth St, Melbourne).
Also, in own box (some damage to paper covering), Melbourne Invitation Committee for OLYMPIC GAMES 1956 presentation volume, facsimile letters by Winston Dugan (Governor of Victoria), T.T.Holloway (Premier of Victoria), F.R.Connelly (Lord Mayor of Melbourne), with impressed gold foil and red paper wafer seals, 4 folding plates at the end, including 3 coloured, depicting proposed Olympic arenas, 63 plates exhibiting Melbourne and Victoria's landscape, scenery, people, art and architecture. Merino shearling binding by Spicers & Detmold, upper cover with large applied enamelled crest by Stokes & Co in colours, folio, 34.7 x 27 cm., Melbourne 1948. Copies of the book, mostly bound in suede, with a very few in lamb's wool, were sent out in 1948 to all IOC members, sporting bodies, royalty and politicians, as one of the Melbourne Committee's actions to woo the IOC to award Melbourne the 1956 Olympics.Access StatusOpen for public accessEMu IRN70300
1979.0115 Unit 0391, [UMA-UN-000031428]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 07/02/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/117094
