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                    Melbourne's Newsboys

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                    Crutchey, Tabby-cats, Spud, Little Charlie, Curley and all their mates – Melbourne salutes its vanished newsboys!

                    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.

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                    Curated by Dr Andrew May

                    Dr Andrew May is an urban historian in the History Department at the University of Melbourne. He is the principal editor of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne and has published widely on Melbourne's history.

                    His books include Melbourne Street Life (1998), Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001) and Federation Square (with Norman Day, 2003).

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