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A winter’s walk in Fitzroy Gardens, 1913
It’s a stark but beautiful winter scene in one of Melbourne’s oldest parks, a landscape laid bare. The skeletal elm trees stand like proud sculptures extending skywards, their shadows creating faint stripes of light and shade along the pathway in the silvery sunlight.
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And there she was, just riding down the street …
(With apologies to Manfred Mann)
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Making way for thoroughly modern Melbourne
This photograph, taken in about 1924, represents a time capsule of Melbourne as it was just after World War One.
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Dining in style at Spencer Street Station
Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross Station) has been the first port of call for country and interstate train travellers since the 1850s.
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The women at Manning’s on the concourse at Flinders Street Station
March is Women’s History Month so as I look closely at this photograph, taken in 1948 at Manning’s Chemist on the concourse at Flinders Street Station, I’m thinking about these four young women and wondering what their lives were like in the years following the end of World War Two.
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“A dizzying wave of colour”
It is difficult to imagine from the distance of almost 120 years, but for a short time in 1901 Melbourne became a city or arches built to commemorate the creation of Australia.
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Christmas time in the city, 1930
The Myer Emporium expanded to Lonsdale St in the 1920s at a time when this section of Little Bourke St was known as Post Office Place.
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“Doing the Block” in Collins St
From the 1860s to the 1930s, Melburnians who wanted to be seen (and admired), donned their finest clothes and headed for that fashionable part of town – Collins St – to take part in a ritual known as “doing the Block.”
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The Old Melbourne Cemetery at QVM
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
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Outside Nott’s confectioners
This photograph was taken outside the shop of confectioner Thomas Nott in about 1900. He’d been in business for about 50 years by then and boasted that he made the best sweets for children in Melbourne.
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An escapee arrested at the Coffee Tavern
Trees culled for construction
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