{"product_id":"9780522881776","title":"Shutter City","description":"Author: Robyn Annear\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522881776\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuppose 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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 City’s street views.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46498422128798,"sku":"HPC-9780522881776","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522881776.jpg?v=1770793418","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522881776","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}