1889 Our Defenders - Victorian Mounted Rifles ScoutsA beautiful print from 1889 by George Rossi Ashton, depicting a scouting group of the Victorian Mounted Rifles. An illustration from the "Illustrated Australian News" of 1889. The artist was George Rossi Ashton (1857 1942). Ashton was born in England and emigrated to Australia in 1879. A painter and illustrator, he covered many topical events of the period including the capture of Ned Kelly in 1880. He worked for the 'Illustrated London News', the

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Victoria was in the grip of its gold rush and these maps were produced to assist the great numbers of people who were off to the goldfields around Victoria

as we see a steam train chugging along the Railway Viaduct (opened 1891) that connects Flinders Street Station with Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross Station)

The "Melbourne & Hobsons Bay Railway Line" commenced operation in the year of 1854

Batman Avenue was relocated to the east of Birrarung Marr and now runs from Swan Street and joins the southern end of Exhibition Street

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somewhere between 1948 (when Orcades started service

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is "View looking across intersection to a large building

Painting attributed to Jacques Carabain 1834-1933

since 1998

Our team of conservators have worked on a high resolution digital image in order to remove blemishes and artifacts such as stains

the banks and newspaper houses