{"product_id":"shutter-city-fragments-of-a-forgotten-melbourne","title":"Shutter City: Fragments of a Forgotten Melbourne","description":"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 history’s gaze?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShutter 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 City’s street views.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among the sightings: barbers’ poles, drinking fountains, the three gilded balls of a pawnbroker’s sign, gleaming white cups at a coffee stall, street-vendors’ carts, neighbourhood dogs (and a cat), assorted ghosts, and ladders lots of ladders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.","brand":"Melbourne University Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46101528084671,"sku":"9780522881776","price":49.49,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/75048-bd2847b6e4678965dfdd8466c00dfec25125e59473a495431a06d7e47c94cee9.jpg?v=1787843440","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/shutter-city-fragments-of-a-forgotten-melbourne","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}