3 May to 24 July 2005
Once a familiar sight, the newsboy has been etched into popular memories of the city of old. This exhibition drew on literary, newspaper and pictorial sources, and showcased documents from the City of Melbourne's archives.
It captured the lives and images of Melbourne's newsboys, the clubs formed to foster their wellbeing and the regulation of juvenile labour in the city. It also evoked a pastiche of memory, inviting modern-day Melburnians to contribute their own memories of the heyday of the city newsboy and his ways.