1858 Collins Street Looking West across Swanston Street Melbourne 1921-1940 but the town's traders preferred

but the town's traders preferred a bridge from the end of Swanston Street to connect to St Kilda Road

very dirty and scribbled on

1801 at 6h

Ferdinand von Mueller

This is a digitally retouched reproduction of the original held by the State Library of New South Wales

1858 Collins Street Looking West across Swanston Street Melbourne 1921-1940 but the town's traders preferredA very quiet day on Collins Street, taken in 1858, looking West along Collins Street, from just east of the Swanston Street intersection. The town looks deserted, similar to many other photographs from this period, but in fact anything that wasn't completely stationary for at least a couple of minutes was registered as a blur in these early days of photography. This photograph has been taken from an upper floor of a building (most likely the