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The “Brawny Farmer from Dubbo” turned International Boxer
Alexia Rutkowski In the digitised images of the Stadiums Pty Ltd archive collection, Australian boxer, George Cook caught my attention as several photographs included portraits with …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/12/06/the-brawny-farmer-from-dubbo-turned-international-boxer
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“Watching the Gladiators”: Feminine Fandom in Mid-Century Melbourne
William Hoff The subjects of this photograph are attending a boxing match at West Melbourne Stadium, but their identities are anonymous. In the metadata, there are …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/29/watching-the-gladiators-feminine-fandom-in-mid-century-melbourne
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Shifting Racial Attitudes Through Music: African American Performers at West Melbourne Stadium
Shannon Peters On the evening of Sunday July 25th, 1954, an enthusiastic crowd of around a thousand people gathered at Sydney’s Mascot Airport, eager to catch …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/21/shifting-racial-attitudes-through-music-african-american-performers-at-west-melbourne-stadium
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Shuttered Histories: The Odyssey of John O’Brien’s Hanover St Residence
Ronak Alburz John Lockyer O’Brien (1905–1965), a distinguished historian at the University of Melbourne, curated a remarkable collection of photographs, capturing the late 1950s and early …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/14/shuttered-histories-the-odyssey-of-john-obriens-hanover-st-residence
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The Downfall of the Urban Grocer
Joshua Strong My father Michael, a 76 year-old Melbournian, remembers what it was like being sent to the grocer’s shop as a kid in the 1950s. …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2023/11/02/the-downfall-of-the-urban-grocer
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