A woman wearing a pink nineteen-fifties dress, with a red flower brooch, white handbag and what might be a visitor’s pass in her hand, waits in front of a chamber door, between two white marble busts of past political leaders, in King’s Hall of the temporary Australian Parliament House in Canberra (in use between nineteen-twenty-seven and nineteen-eighty-eight)

Found slide: Woman waiting in King’s Hall, Parliament House, Canberra, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, circa 1953. Photo by a member of the Down or Tyler families #foundslides #canberra

On an overcast day, a black crane towers over a partially completed, curved concrete track bed for a new tram junction to replace the street level junction at upper right, where a W2 class tram is waiting under a signal box to cross the temporary track on the first stage of the new bridge, partially hidden behind the construction site. Some nearby shops have survived the demolition, for now, at least, advertising products like Castrol motor oil, Speedie electrical services and Kaiser Stuhl wines. A brick smokestack behind the stores bears the name “Phœnix”, a local piston rings company

Found slide: Formwork for the new tram interchange, part of the Queens Road underpass project, St Kilda Junction, Naarm Melbourne, August 1968. Photo by Don Allison #foundslides #stkildajunction #stkilda #naarm #melbourne #donallisonanare #donallisonmmbw #kodachrome