1900c Bird's Eye View of Port Phillip and Corio BayA reproduction of a map published around 1900 showing Port Phillip Bay and the towns and places that surround the Bay. The view is from Melbourne looking south. All text HotPress The notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Pictorial map looking south, marked with steamers routes and nautical miles." Published by McCarron, Bird & Co, around 1900. This is a digitally retouched reproduction of the original held by the National Library

The new building was designed by the imaginative William Pitt

A lot of the establishments and businesses were familiar names to Melburnians right through the 20th century

Photographer was Charles Nettleton

Rattlesnake

both on left side of street

Hoddle defined the block sizes and street widths using the Regulations and approval from Bourke

and was the haunt of prostitutes

Notes from the State Library state that this is a "View across Collins-street (between Russell and Swanston streets)

Meg Morrilies

Harris & Heymanson

but the concourse designed to run along Swanston Street was not constructed to this design

The owners of the "Argus" built a new large building on the corner of Elizabeth and Latrobe Streets in 1926 and the building in this photo was demolished not long afterwards