• Title
  Dame Nellie Melba, an aggregated collection of portraits, ca. 1890-1919 / various photographers
• Call number
  P1/629
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1890-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  441613
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 fascicle (8 photoprints, some panel) - 36 x 26 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Nos 3 & 9 were photographed on the verandah of Coombe Cottage, Lilydale, ca. 1919 [probably later]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  Gerald Marr Thompson, arts critic and journalist - collection of theatre portraits, between 1891-1925 (86077)
• Published Information
  No. 2 published in Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991, p.136
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Melba, Dame Nellie (BM), February 2010
  
  Item No.1 forms part of Gerald Marr Thompson, arts critic and journalist - collection of theatre portraits, between 1891-1925
  
  No. 4 Transferred to PXA 1019 in 2004
  Digital order no:Album ID : 935400
• Contributing Creator
  
  Photographer's stamps [nos 1,2,4 (copy),6,8]
  
  Photographers:
  No. 1. Hadwell Clarke, 117 Ebury St [Lond.] SW
  No. 2. Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney
  Nos 3 & 9. [Same, unidentified]
  No. 4. [Copy] Dover Street Studios, 38 Dover St, Mayfair London W.
  No. 5. Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney
  No. 6. Guigoni & Bossi, 13 Corso Vitt. Emanuele 13, Milano
  No. 7. [Unidentified]
  No. 8. Broothorn, Melbourne
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  No. 1 "To Mr G Marr Thompson from his sincere friend Nellie Melba, 1909" -- signature on lower edge of mount
  
  No. 2 "Nellie Melba, 1909" -- signature on lower edge of mount
  
  No. 3 "Nellie Melba, 1911" -- signature on lower edge of [copy] photoprint
  
  No. 6 "To my rival ha! ha! Dora, Nellie" -- signature on lower edge of photograph
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931
  Portrait photography.
  
• Topic
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3220401

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