[UMA-SR-000001984] Photographic prints taken by Jack Lockyer O'Brien

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IdentifierUMA-SR-000001984Extent974 photographsScope and ContentPhotographic prints, mainly of buildings in Victoria, generally taken by O'Brien, although some are photographs taken by others or are photographic records of nineteenth- century illustrations.
His collection of photographs was taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many of them capture the architecture and streetscapes of inner-city Melbourne when the area was in transition between its then 19th century topography and working-class status prior to large-scale demolitions to made way for the construction of the Housing Commission high-rise blocks, and middle-class migration back to the inner-city and subsequent renovation and gentrification of its housing. He was also interested in the early architecture of country Victoria and photographed 19th century homesteads, hotels, churches, banks, railway stations, as well as humbler buildings. He and his wife Laurie owned and resided in a double-storey Georgian-style bluestone house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy.
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Windsor Hotel

Buildings at the corner of Canning and Faraday Streets, Carlton, Victoria.

A timber dwelling in Jolimont Square, Jolimont, Victoria.

Rear view of dwellings in Palmer Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.

The Gatekeeper's Cottage at the Grattan Street entrance to the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria.

Dwellings in The Avenue, Parkville, Victoria.

Dwellings in Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.

"Watten House", a two storey dwelling in Murchison Street, Carlton, Victoria.

Dwellings in Jolimont Street, Jolimont, Victoria.

Dwellings in Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria.

Rear view of dwellings in Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.

"Ellens Terrace" in Drummond Street, Carlton, Victoria.

Buildings at 345 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Victoria, including the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club.

Mission of St James and St John property, Stevenson Street, Kew, Victoria.

Erskine Presbyterian Church, Rathdowne Street, Carlton, Victoria.

"Carlton Hall", a two storey building in Princes Street, Carlton, Victoria.

"Blythswood", Commonwealth Tariff Board Building, Kew, Victoria.

A timber dwelling in Jolimont Square, Jolimont, Victoria.

Dwelling in Barkly Street, St Kilda, Victoria.

"Ridley", South Road, Brighton, Victoria.

Hotel Sabloniere, Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria.

A two storey dwelling in Macarthur Place, Carlton, Victoria.

A dwelling in Fleet Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.

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Provenance

CreatorO'Brien, JackRolePhotographer

Dates

Date1950-1964

Description Control

State of ListPart listedDescriptive Note454 of the total 974 photographs have been listed and digitised.

University of Melbourne Archives

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[UMA-SR-000001984] Photographic prints taken by Jack Lockyer O'Brien