Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960

Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960 by Various


Authors
Various
ISBN
9781925385274
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Dimensions
252 x 296mm

Melbourne has been reshaped since the 1950s, the completion of ICI House in 1958 being symbolic of the glass tower revolution that changed the face of this magnificent 19th-century city. This book Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960, captures what has been lost and forgotten, concealed and overlaid, demolished and reborn, in the transformation of a
city’s buildings and streetscapes.

It is a unique book, for it reveals in over 700 photographs the face of fourteen of Melbourne’s finest streets, and also its lanes and little streets, its parks and gardens, and of course the Yarra. Besides this, it presents key buildings and streetscapes of twenty of Melbourne’s iconic suburbs.

Each street and suburb is introduced by a short essay written by an expert, catching the essence of that precinct. These authoritative introductions, written by over 30 history practitioners working pro bono, provide a context for the magnificent photographs to follow. There are also introductory chapters on Aboriginal Melbourne, on how the city was shaped, on the city and suburbs as a whole, and on how Melbourne and suburbs were captured by the camera, which was born at the same time as the city.

Every photograph is identified and explained in extended captions written by over 75 volunteers from twenty suburban historical societies and the
Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the latter being Melbourne’s history society. Caption writers also assisted in the final selection of photographs.

The book, an imaginative collaboration by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the QBD, and based on the voluntary efforts of over 100 people, has established a new benchmark in recording the early history of one of the world’s most liveable cities.

The photographs within this book will endure here, and in the collections of Melbourne’s historical societies from which they were drawn, long after
many of the buildings pictured have been reduced to rubble. It is a priceless trove of a city’s memory.
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Melbourne has been reshaped since the 1950s, the completion of ICI House in 1958 being symbolic of the glass tower revolution that changed the face of this magnificent 19th-century city. This book Remembering Melbourne 1850–1960, captures what has been lost and forgotten, concealed and overlaid, demolished and reborn, in the transformation of a
city’s buildings and streetscapes.

It is a unique book, for it reveals in over 700 photographs the face of fourteen of Melbourne’s finest streets, and also its lanes and little streets, its parks and gardens, and of course the Yarra. Besides this, it presents key buildings and streetscapes of twenty of Melbourne’s iconic suburbs.

Each street and suburb is introduced by a short essay written by an expert, catching the essence of that precinct. These authoritative introductions, written by over 30 history practitioners working pro bono, provide a context for the magnificent photographs to follow. There are also introductory chapters on Aboriginal Melbourne, on how the city was shaped, on the city and suburbs as a whole, and on how Melbourne and suburbs were captured by the camera, which was born at the same time as the city.

Every photograph is identified and explained in extended captions written by over 75 volunteers from twenty suburban historical societies and the
Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the latter being Melbourne’s history society. Caption writers also assisted in the final selection of photographs.

The book, an imaginative collaboration by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the QBD, and based on the voluntary efforts of over 100 people, has established a new benchmark in recording the early history of one of the world’s most liveable cities.

The photographs within this book will endure here, and in the collections of Melbourne’s historical societies from which they were drawn, long after
many of the buildings pictured have been reduced to rubble. It is a priceless trove of a city’s memory.
ISBN:
9781925385274
Publication Date:
01 / 11 / 2016
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
252 x 296mm
A Superb Portrait of melbourne
This is an exceptional collection of images not so readily known. Thank you RHSV for publishing this grand volume!
, 07/08/2019
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