- Title
- The circus and the amusement park: a site of contestation near Princes Bridge, Melbourne
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian
- Relation
- Impact of the Modern: Vernacular Modernities in Australia, 1870s-1960s p. 264-277
- Relation
- http://fmx01.ucc.usyd.edu.au/jspcart/Search.do?searchTitle=impact+of+the+modern&searchAuthor=&searchISBN=
- Publisher
- Sydney University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This chapter is in part about Princes Court in the years 1904-06 but it is also about the leading circus of the era, the FitzGerald Brothers Circus. The catalyst for my discussion is the piece of crown land on which Princes Court was built and which also accommodated the large circus building of the FitzGeralds. A contest of some kind emerged between the dual tenants of the land in early 1905; such was the topic of a thread of discussion in the Bulletin whose contributing readers speculated about the intention of the shareholders of the amusement park to assume control of the FitzGeralds' portion of the land.
- Subject
- FitzGerald Brothers' Circus; circus history; Melbourne; Princes Court, Melbourne; amusement parks
- Identifier
- uon:5865
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44742
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781920898892
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