Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Step back in time to the raw, bustling streets of colonial Melbourne, where a city was forged from gold rush ambition and immigrant grit — Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901 presents a stunning visual chronicle of Australia's most dynamic metropolis across the second half of the nineteenth century. Compiled by Don Bennetts, this remarkable volume assembles a rich archive of period photographs that capture Melbourne's transformation from a fledgling settlement into one of the Southern Hemisphere's great cities, documenting its people, its streets, its celebrations, and its defining moments with remarkable intimacy and detail. Beyond its role as a historical record, this collection stands as a testament to the power of photography as a social document, illuminating the everyday lives of Melburnians — from the grandeur of its public institutions to the candid humanity of its working-class crowds. Bennetts' curatorial eye draws together images that speak across the decades, offering the modern reader not merely nostalgia, but a genuine window into the lived experience of a society in breathless transformation. For anyone captivated by Australian history, urban development, or the art of Victorian-era photography, this volume poses a tantalising question: how much of that vanished city still haunts the Melbourne of today?
Author: Don Bennetts
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Step back in time to the raw, bustling streets of colonial Melbourne, where a city was forged from gold rush ambition and immigrant grit — Melbourne's Yesterdays: A Photographic Record 1851-1901 presents a stunning visual chronicle of Australia's most dynamic metropolis across the second half of the nineteenth century. Compiled by Don Bennetts, this remarkable volume assembles a rich archive of period photographs that capture Melbourne's transformation from a fledgling settlement into one of the Southern Hemisphere's great cities, documenting its people, its streets, its celebrations, and its defining moments with remarkable intimacy and detail. Beyond its role as a historical record, this collection stands as a testament to the power of photography as a social document, illuminating the everyday lives of Melburnians — from the grandeur of its public institutions to the candid humanity of its working-class crowds. Bennetts' curatorial eye draws together images that speak across the decades, offering the modern reader not merely nostalgia, but a genuine window into the lived experience of a society in breathless transformation. For anyone captivated by Australian history, urban development, or the art of Victorian-era photography, this volume poses a tantalising question: how much of that vanished city still haunts the Melbourne of today?