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Author Hayes, Sarah (Historical archaeologist), author.

Title Flashy, fun and functional : how things helped to invent Melbourne's gold rush mayor / Sarah Hayes
Published University of Sydney, NSW, Australia : Sydney University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in Australasian historical archaeology ; v. 6
Summary From 1849 to 1860 John Thomas Smith and his family occupied 300 Queen Street, Melbourne, one of the first true residential townhouses in the city. In 1851, Smith became Lord Mayor of Melbourne. And, in 1982, excavations at the site by Judy Birmingham and Associates uncovered a rich and important archaeological record of the Smiths' lives in the form of a cesspit rubbish deposit
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-68)
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Row houses -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
Middle class -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Middle class
Row houses
SUBJECT Australia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
Subject Australia
Victoria -- Melbourne
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018439472
ISBN 9781743322123
1743322127