Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria

Publisher Commonwealth Immigration Office

Maker Valentine & Sons Publishing Company Limited (Scottish, 1900 - 1963)

Date1925

Object number00019564

NamePostcard

MediumPhotographic print on paper.

DimensionsOverall: 89 x 131 mm

ClassificationsPosters and postcards

Credit LineANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds

Terms

DescriptionThis postcard showing a view of Collins Street in Melbourne, Victoria, was produced by the Australian government for the visiting United States Navy's Battle fleet in 1925. The reverse is inscribed, 'Issued by the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia to the Officers and Men of the American Fleet, July-August, 1925'.SignificanceThis postcard is significant as a souvenir of the 1925 goodwill cruise of the United States Battle Fleet to Australia, which renewed the Australian-American alliance established by the Great White Fleet visit in 1908. The 1925 visit contributes to a long history of US Naval visits to Australian ports starting with the US Exploring Expedition in 1839-1840, followed by the 1908 visit of the Great White Fleet and later visits in the 1940s in the lead-up to World War II.