1888c Collins Street looking west from Spring Street Spencer Street showing the southern facade of

showing the southern facade of "The Block"

We're looking west from the corner of Russell Street

The old Eastern Market is central to the photo

Notes from the State Library state that this is a "Cityscape view of inner city Melbourne

devastated landscape on both sides littered with overturned wagons

1888c Collins Street looking west from Spring Street Spencer Street showing the southern facade ofA photograph of the eastern end of Collins Street around 1888. We are looking at buildings on the south side of Collins Street. At the time, the majority of the buildings at the eastern end of Collins Street between Spring and Russell Streets were residences and rooms of eminent doctors and dentists. The two buildings on the left of the image are still there, but all of the other buildings including the Masonic Hall (twin domes) and the Oriental Hotel