Unknown photographer, Institute of Applied Science, 1872, albumen silver photograph, State Library of Victoria.

This photograph shows the Industrial and Technological Museum housed in the Great Hall in 1872. The large space was divided into various areas and the northern half was organised ‘to be instructive to the student of Mineralogy and Geology, and also the miner, agriculturalist, and manufacturer’. The mining models transferred from Frederick McCoy’s National Museum of Victoria were intended to explain the processes of manufacture covered in this section.