1874 Bendigo - Pall Mall from City Family Hotel Melbourne Maps Notes from the State Library

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is of "The Block Arcade

The map was drawn with North orientated to the left

Photograph by Robert Vere Scott

and both images have been merged by HotPress Images to create one image

From the Williamstown Chronicle of 3rd January 1925 we read

1874 Bendigo - Pall Mall from City Family Hotel Melbourne Maps Notes from the State LibraryThis view of Pall Mall, from Hadley's City Family Hotel, was taken by Charles Bayliss in April 1874, using a mammoth camera which took glass plates measuring 18 x 22 inches (46 x 56 cm). After the death of Beaufoy Merlin in 1873, Bernhardt Holtermann engaged Merlin's partner, 24 year old Charles Bayliss, to continue taking photographs for his planned International Exposition. During his time with Merlin since 1866 until 1873, Charles Bayliss had