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Look back at Port of Melbourne in pictures
The Port of Melbourne has been sold. Take a journey into the port's past with this collection of historical photos.
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Actress Ava Gardner as Moira Davidson walks along a wharf in the Port of Melbourne in 1959. Credit:
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Ships at the Port of Melbourne in 1974.Credit:
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People with streamers farewelling cruise ship from port of Melbourne in 1960.Credit:
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Veteran wharfie Mick O'Brien on his morning tea break by the Yarra River at South Wharf, 1963. Photo: Jack FaithfullCredit:
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Ship in Port of Melbourne, ca. 1928. Credit: Charles Daniel Pratt/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Yarra River and Port of Melbourne, 1930-ca. 1948. Credit: Charles Daniel Pratt/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Railway Pier Port Melbourne, ca.1870. Credit: Charles Nettleton/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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View looking over water to ships at a pier, with other ships on the bay in the background, ca. 1890-ca. 1892. Credit: Albert Dubucand compiler/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Loading sacks of flour 1957, Port of Melbourne. Photo: Wolfgang Sievers/Courtesy State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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A section of the thousands who crowded the Port Melbourne station and spread along the railway line to cheer the troop trains as they passed on their way to the ships. CA 1940. Credit: Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria.Credit:
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Melbourne Harbour Trust : dock and river improvements proposed, 1879. Port of Melbourne. Credit: Sir John Coode/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Princess of Tasmania' and 'Bass Trader' approaching Port of Melbourne 1963. Photo: Wolfgang Sievers/Courtesy State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Port of Melbourne 1964. Photo: Wolfgang Sievers/Courtesy State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Port of Melbourne.Shows horses bound for India being loaded onto the Gulf of St. Vincent at Port Melbourne. September 24, 1883 Credit: Alfred Martin Ebsworth/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Embarkation from Port Melbourne of the 2nd A.I.F. and accompanying nurses, ca. 1941. Credit: Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Ship being towed into Port of Melbourne, Jan. 20, 1929. Credit: Charles Daniel Pratt/State Library of VictoriaCredit:
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Mick McKenzie worked on the docks for 41 years, in 1995. Photo: Donna ToddCredit:
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Terry Campion and his son Rhys Campion (10) from Tooborac at the Patrick v Wharfies dispute at Web Dock in 1998. His hard hat reads "MUA Here to stay". Photo: Simon O'DwyerCredit:
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M.U.A members holding a picnic at the Strand before going on boats to protest at Web Dock in 1998. Photo: Simon O'DwyerCredit:
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Wharfies building a barracade in the 1998 blockade. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer Credit: