French-American pianist Alice Charbonnet, 1879 / photographer unknown

P1/336

fonds

1879

Graphic Materials, Photographs

879530

Digitised

1 photographic print - albumen, on trimmed card - 15.3 x 10.7 cm

Alice Charbonnet accompanied the French violinist Camilla Urso in a concert at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1879, played in Centenary celebrations in 1888 and was the mother of Annette Kellermann, swimmer, diver and entertainer.

Reference:
Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp. 94,112,192)

Out of copyright: created before 1955

Transferred from P1/Charbonnet, Alice (BM), December 2009

Partial unidentified albumen photograph on the reverse of the carte
Digital order no:a4260036

"To Mrs J. G. O'Connor, Alice Charbonnet, Sydney, 1879" -- signature in ink on the lower edge of the photograph