Kate Rooney, Australian concert contralto, and her "Little Billie" (baby), ca. 1920-1925 / Heidi Pic...
Kate Rooney, Australian concert contralto, and her "Little Billie" (baby), ca. 1920-1925 / Heidi Pic...
Kate Rooney, Australian concert contralto, and her "Little Billie" (baby), ca. 1920-1925 / Heidi Pictures, Broadway, N.Y.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1920-1925
Call Numbers
P1/1491
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - 26 x 18 cm. - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 1 printed sheet, in folder
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Alternative Titles
Full title
Kate Rooney, Australian concert contralto, and her "Little Billie" (baby), ca. 1920-1925 / Heidi Pictures, Broadway, N.Y.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Rooney, Kate (BM), June 2010
Digital order no:Album ID : 937198
Signature / Inscriptions
"From Kate Rooney & her "Little Billie" -- signature on the front of the folder
"Years better than all the ballads, That ever were sung or said, For ye are living poems" -- signature on the lower edge of the photograph
"To Mr Marr-Thompson with best wishes from Kate Rooney" -- signature on the verso of the photograph
Photographer's signat...
Contextual Information
Source
Presented 1938
Administrative / Biographical history
A souvenir sheet of praise from British and American newspapers, is included in the folder. Rooney sang to acclaim at Royal and gala events (including the Entente cordiale celebrations) at Covent Garden, the Royal Albert Hall and other major halls in the United Kingdom.
(A Jeanette Rooney sang in an opera company in Australia in the 1930's) -- r...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/1491
Record Identifier
YezdMZ79
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YezdMZ79
Other Identifiers
Reference code
442030
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