1863 Maitland 1963
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: N/A
Pages: Good
Published to mark a defining milestone in one of New South Wales' most storied regional cities, 1863 Maitland 1963 is a centenary commemoration volume produced by the Council of the City of Maitland, chronicling one hundred years of civic life, growth, and community identity in the Hunter Valley. The book presents a rich portrait of Maitland's evolution from a fledgling colonial settlement into a thriving regional centre, detailing the political, social, and infrastructural achievements that shaped its character across a century. Commissioned as an official record of civic pride, this centenary volume sits within a proud Australian tradition of municipal history-making, offering invaluable primary source material for historians, genealogists, and anyone with ties to the Maitland region. Illustrated with archival photographs and bearing the city's coat of arms as its frontispiece, it stands as a time capsule of mid-twentieth-century regional Australia — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of that proud legacy still echoes through Maitland's streets today.
Author: The Council of the City of Maitland
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Oswald Ziegler Publications Pty. Ltd.
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Published to mark a defining milestone in one of New South Wales' most storied regional cities, 1863 Maitland 1963 is a centenary commemoration volume produced by the Council of the City of Maitland, chronicling one hundred years of civic life, growth, and community identity in the Hunter Valley. The book presents a rich portrait of Maitland's evolution from a fledgling colonial settlement into a thriving regional centre, detailing the political, social, and infrastructural achievements that shaped its character across a century. Commissioned as an official record of civic pride, this centenary volume sits within a proud Australian tradition of municipal history-making, offering invaluable primary source material for historians, genealogists, and anyone with ties to the Maitland region. Illustrated with archival photographs and bearing the city's coat of arms as its frontispiece, it stands as a time capsule of mid-twentieth-century regional Australia — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of that proud legacy still echoes through Maitland's streets today.