Scale drawings of facilities at various Olympic Games venues around Melbourne

Containers:

Folio [Elephant Folio Run]

Component identifier:

File

Content Summary:

Includes: Drawing A2 – Arena Manager’s Office – Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) (four copies); Drawing A6 – Administration and Dressing: conversion of part of the northern stand, MCG; Drawing C12 – Cycling (road race): Start – Finish area; Drawing C16 – Cycling (road race): communications layout, Broadmeadows; Drawing A18 – Field Headquarters, MCG: building and communications layout (two copies); Athletics – MCG: rooms C1-C3 and relative position of the Royal Box; MCG: reconstruction for the Olympics: athletics field plan; Organisational chart: 16th Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired by the National Library of Australia in 1982. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, notes, printed materials, newspaper clippings, architectural scale drawings, a specimen of the running track used at the Mexico City Olympic Games in 1968, and miscellaneous items of a personal nature.

Names:

Leonard Brokenshire Curnow

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