{"product_id":"shutter-city","title":"Shutter City","description":"\u003cp\u003eShutter City\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\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\u003eAmong 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\u003eLet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dear Village","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51411803078932,"sku":"9780522881776","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6460\/0596\/files\/9780522881776_1.jpg?v=1760343896","url":"https:\/\/dearvillage.com.au\/products\/shutter-city","provider":"Dear Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}