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This photograph was taken in Hobart during the 1950s by Alan Edgar McMaster, an employee of the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission in Tarraleah. It shows Fitzgerald’s department store on Collins Street, decorated for the Christmas season. At the time, Fitzgerald’s was the State’s largest retail establishment. Founded in 1886, the store operated under its name for more than a century, remaining a central part of Hobart’s shopping district until the mid-1990s.