• Title
  Item 1: Mrs Swinborne oral history interview by Julie Petersen
• Call number
  MLOH 764/1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1981 or 1982
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9651018
• Physical Description
  1 audiotape reel (17 min.) - 13 cm, 6 mm tape
  
• Scope and Content
  MLOH 764/1 (17 min.):
  Mrs. Swinborne (given name unknown), who was born in 1895, talks about her life in Sydney, mainly during the late 1920s; her job as a ticket/show card writer; starting her own business and selling artists' work; being a student of artist Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo; establishing a club in Pitt Street during the Depression which was frequented by bohemians; writing a book about the bohemians; publishing a book of verse by Dulcie Deamer, the 'Queen of Bohemia', in 1948, for which Norman Lindsay illustrated the cover. During the recording Mrs Swinborne sings two bohemian songs.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Reproduction Restricted:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Description source
  
  The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.
• General note
  
  MLOH 764/1 : Tape speed from contents list.
  MLOH 764/1: Date information is inconsistent - box is annotated ‘Recorded 1982’, contents list in assessment form gives date as 1981.
  Some of this material has been provided to the library with limited documentation. If you can provide, or require, more information about this material, please enquire through the Library’s Ask A Librarian service.
• Contributing Creator
  
  Interviewer: Petersen, Julie
  Interviewee: Swinborne, Mrs
• Subject
  Swinborne, Mrs, 1895---Interviews.
  Bohemianism--New South Wales--Sydney.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21161222

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