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Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / The Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney

Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / The Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney

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Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / The Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney

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Full title

Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / The Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney

Author / Creator

Date

1903

Call Numbers

P1/415

Record Identifier

1l4dBmJ1

Reference Code

447289
Physical Description

Contents

Photographs - image 19.2 x 14.4 cm. , on mount (trimmed) 25 x 21.2 cm. - 1 Paris panel

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : created before 1955

Issue Copy

Digitised

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Alternative Titles

Full title

Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / The Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Contributing Creator

Photographer's stamps

Notes

General note

Transferred from P1/Crossley, Ada (BM), January 2010

Digital order no:a4214015

Signature / Inscriptions

Faithfully yours / Ada Crossley / 1903 -- signature on lower edge of mount

Date note

Dated from signature

Contextual Information

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)
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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

P1/415

Record Identifier

1l4dBmJ1

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Reference code

447289

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