• Title
  Ada Crossley, Australian contralto, 1903-1904 or 1908-1909 [postcard]
• Call number
  P1/416
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1903-1904 or 1908-1909
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Ephemera
• Reference code
  447287
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Ephemera - 1 postcard - 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "[Ada Crossley's] fame in oratorio in Great Britain was comparable with Melba's in opera. She had often sung for Queen Victoria." Percy Grainger toured Australia with Crossley in 1903-1904 and 1908-1909. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp.123 & 137)
  For a biography of Ada Crossley, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.8, 1891-1939. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1981 (p.159)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Crossley, Ada (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214016
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Ada Crossley -- signature lower edge of postcard
• Subject
  Crossley, Ada, 1874-1929
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  evening clothes
  jewellery
  portraits
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3246401

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