Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Step back in time to a city finding its footing — Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901 presents a rich and intimate visual chronicle of Melbourne during one of the most transformative half-centuries in Australian history, from the fever pitch of the Gold Rush era through to the dawn of Federation. Compiled by Don Bennetts, this remarkable volume assembles a sweeping collection of period photographs that capture the streets, citizens, ceremonies, and daily rhythms of a colonial city rapidly evolving into a modern metropolis. Beyond its role as a historical archive, this collection stands as a powerful testament to the art of early photography and its capacity to preserve social memory with extraordinary clarity. Bennetts curates his images with a keen eye for both the grand civic spectacle and the quiet, unguarded human moment, illustrating the full texture of Victorian-era Melbourne life — its optimism, its contradictions, and its irreplaceable character. For historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by Australia's colonial past, this volume poses a quietly urgent question: how much of a city's true soul survives only in its photographs?
Author: Don Bennetts
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Souvenir Press
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Step back in time to a city finding its footing — Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901 presents a rich and intimate visual chronicle of Melbourne during one of the most transformative half-centuries in Australian history, from the fever pitch of the Gold Rush era through to the dawn of Federation. Compiled by Don Bennetts, this remarkable volume assembles a sweeping collection of period photographs that capture the streets, citizens, ceremonies, and daily rhythms of a colonial city rapidly evolving into a modern metropolis. Beyond its role as a historical archive, this collection stands as a powerful testament to the art of early photography and its capacity to preserve social memory with extraordinary clarity. Bennetts curates his images with a keen eye for both the grand civic spectacle and the quiet, unguarded human moment, illustrating the full texture of Victorian-era Melbourne life — its optimism, its contradictions, and its irreplaceable character. For historians, collectors, and anyone captivated by Australia's colonial past, this volume poses a quietly urgent question: how much of a city's true soul survives only in its photographs?