1922 Distant View of Melbourne From The Yarra Charles Nettleton Notes from the State Library

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Photograph of buildings and horse drawn carts in Swanston Street

This map was "Published as the Act directs by the Proprietors

Lady McNaughtan

or is capable of giving our friends at home an adequate idea of Melbourne and that portion of its suburbs which lie south of the River Yarra

situated on the north-east corner of those two streets

1922 Distant View of Melbourne From The Yarra Charles Nettleton Notes from the State LibraryAn atmospheric image of boating on the Yarra River by John B. Eaton, dated 1922c, Looking west along the Yarra from where Swan Street Bridge now stands. John B. Eaton was a prolific photographer of landscapes around the beaches of Port Phillip Bay, and the countryside around Melbourne and Victoria. His work is part of the pictorialism movement, where photographs were to be viewed as works of art, rather than just as images captured. John Bertram Eaton