1920s A Fleeting Gleam Melbourne 1800-1820 and is ranked as one

and is ranked as one of the most beautiful public buildings in Australia

The collection of ships

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "View of a large ship docked at the water's edge

were approved

A man with a bicycle stands in the right foreground

1920s A Fleeting Gleam Melbourne 1800-1820 and is ranked as oneAn atmospheric image of shipping on the Yarra River by John Kauffman, sometime in the early 1920s, looking east with the tower and dome of Flinders Street Station off in the distance. Melbourne was only ninety years old, yet was one of the major cities in the British Empire at the time. John Kauffman was one of the primary exponents of pictorialism in Australia. One newspaper claimed that his photographs that could be "mistaken for works of art". His