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CANBERRA's Tourist Class Island Room

PH/07327/00

Object category: PHOTOGRAPH

Date made: May 1961

Maker: STEWART BALE

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Material/medium: Black & White Print

Dimensions:

  • overall: 8 in x 10 in

The Island Room was designed for dances, concerts and as a partially open games deck in good weather. The inner walls were decorated with a vast colourful mural of Ceylon and the Pacific Island by the artist Robert Buhler, R.A.