• Title
  Nance O'Neil as Peg Woffington [in the 1852 play by Charles Reade "Masks and faces"] / Talma & Co., 374 George St, Sydney, next G.P.O. and at 119 Swanston St., Melbourne [probably 1905]
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/1266
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  [probably 1905]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439972
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 Paris panel - image 19.4 x 13.4 cm. , on mount 25.3 x 17.3 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/O'Neil, Nance (BM), May 2010
  
  A Magnificent spectacle caption -- American actor Nance ONeill was the star attraction for J. C. Williamsons at the opening of the newly upgraded Her Majestys in Melbourne on 19 May 1900. ONeill toured Australia from 1905 to 1906 opposite another American actor, Arthur McKee Rankin. This tour included serious plays by Sudermann and Ibsen, with the highly controversial performance of Fires of St John among them.
  Digital order no:a128742
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Sepia print at P4/11
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp at lower right
  Nance O'Neil as 'Peg Woffington' -- typescript on verso
• Date note
  
  Dated from Entertaining Australia / Katherine Brisbane (ed.), p.140 (where the photograph is reproduced)
• Name
  J.C. Williamson (Firm)
  Masks and faces (play)
  O'Neil, Nance, 1874-1965
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  actors
  theatrical costumes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Magnificent spectacle : theatre posters of J.C. Williamson's, 1905-1914 - State Library of New South Wales (12 April, 2004 - 24 April, 2005)

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