Paperback. Suppose that you could travel back in time to a Melbourne city street from 150 years ago or even longer. What might meet your eye that has eluded historys gaze?Shutter City presents city street views spanning the hurly-burly decades of the 1850s to 1870s, between the gold rushes and Marvellous Melbourne. Robyn Annear peers into every shadowy corner to reveal postcard streetscapes as miraculous time-capsules, packed with hidden-in-plain-sight historical detail. Her discoveries she calls them sparks illuminate and decode each of Shutter Citys street views. Among the sightings: barbers poles, drinking fountains, the three gilded balls of a pawnbrokers sign, gleaming white cups at a coffee stall, street-vendors carts, neighbourhood dogs (and a cat), assorted ghosts, and ladders lots of ladders. Let Shutter City be your time-machine and Robyn Annear your guide: her lively and insightful commentary weaves the street views and their sparks into a vivid narrative of a near-forgotten Melbourne and the photographers who captured it. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Shutter City (Paperback)
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Carlton
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0522881777
ISBN 13: 9780522881776
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Robyn Annear has been ransacking Melbourne’s history for thirty years. Her books include Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found (Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne) and Adrift in Melbourne.

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