"This 46th edition of Morgan's Official Street Directory of Melbourne and Suburbs is a richly detailed snapshot of metropolitan Melbourne in the early 1960s, produced at a time of rapid suburban expansion and infrastructural change. Long regarded as an authoritative navigation aid, Morgan's directories were widely used by government departments, police, real estate agents, and businesses, and this edition reflects that practical focus with comprehensive large-scale maps, a precise street index, postcode boundaries, tram and rail routes, tram stop numbers, police stations, schools, hospitals, and other civic landmarks. The inclusion of areas such as Fairfield, Northcote, Kew, and the Yarra Bend precinct vividly documents Melbourne's mid-century urban geography.
Published by Val Morgan & Co. (Aust.) Pty Ltd. around 1962, this directory also captures period commercial culture through its contemporary advertising and design, making it valuable beyond pure cartographic use. Today it serves as an important historical reference for tracing street names, suburb boundaries, transport routes, and lost or altered urban features, offering insight into how Melbourne functioned before large-scale freeway development and later urban redevelopment. This book would particularly appeal to Melbourne historians, genealogists, urban researchers, and collectors of Australian cartographic and city-planning material."
