Performing Arts
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# 46307
REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)
[FEMINISM] Reel Women
[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1980]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 20 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Kerry Dwyer, Jacqui Fine, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; very good condition. …
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# 46308
REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)
[FEMINISM] Reel Women
[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1979?]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 17 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Madelon Wilkens, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; Virginia Fraser’s copy, with a …
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# 28922
FRADELLE & MARSHALL
Studio portrait of Minnie Walton, Australian actress and singer. London, circa 1874.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 65 mm (mount); recto and verso with imprint of Fradelle & Marshall, Regent Street, London; verso also inscribed in pencil in period hand ‘Minnie Walton’; the print is a little pale but in good condition, as is the mount. Minnie Walton was a popular Australian performer …
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# 29301
[WARNER BROS.] [RALSTON, Marcia, 1906-1988]
Signed photographic portrait of Australian Hollywood screen actress Marcia Ralston, circa 1937.
[Burbank, Ca. : Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., circa 1937]. Gelatin silver print publicity photograph, 175 x 125 mm, inscribed in white fountain pen by the actress ‘Sincerely, Marcia Ralston’; verso blank; in fine condition. The classically beautiful Sydney-born actress Marcia Ralston – winner of a Miss Australia contest – was one of a small number …
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# 25465
[HAYDON, Ethel, 1876-1954]; ELLIS, Alfred (1854-1930) (photographer)
Two photographic portraits of Australian actress and singer Ethel Haydon (later Mrs. George Robey), taken in London, 1895 or 1896.
[London : s.n., 1895-96]. Two printing-out paper print photographs, each 150 x 105 mm, laid down on a late nineteenth century album page with owner’s identifying caption ‘Ethel Haydon’ in white ink; both prints are embossed ‘Alfred Ellis Photographer / Copyright; the three-quarter length portrait on the left is beautifully lit and shows off her …
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# 15995
MOORE, Caroline Ellen (Carrie) (1882–1956)
[THEATRE] Miss Carrie Moore in “Cinderella” : signed postcard, dated 1908.
London : Rotary Photo, Foulsham & Banfield, [1908]. Photographic postcard, 137 x 87 mm, the front signed in pen ‘Yours always, Carrie Moore’; verso addressed by Miss Moore to ‘Miss Milner’ of Fulham Park Gardens, London; postmark dated Dec. 8 1908; in fine condition. The biography of Geelong-born actress Carrie Moore (1882-1956), who achieved fame …
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# 41964
GERMAN GLEE CLUB (BRISBANE)
[GERMAN COMMUNITY IN QUEENSLAND] Old School of Arts. Masquerade Ball, under the auspices of the German Glee Club, Monday, April 19, 1880. No admittance without a mask before 12 o’clock. Doors open at 8 o’clock. Lady’s Ticket. 2&6d.
[Brisbane, Qld. : s.n., 1880]. Admission ticket, 75 x 113 mm, printed recto only on orange card; the ticket is numbered in manuscript ‘123’, along with the price 2/6, and is signed lower left by the Club’s Hon. Secretary, J. Bauman; verso blank; fine condition. [TOGETHER WITH] Gentleman’s Ticket to the same ball, numbered 149, with the price …
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# 46483
CIRCUS OZ WOMEN & ASSOCIATES
[MELBOURNE] How’s Tricks? A variety night to celebrate International Women’s Day. Sunday March 6 [1984]. Circus Oz Big Top, Princes Park.
Featuring: Janet Andrewartha, Back to Bourke Street Women, Chrissie Best and Jenny Catrin, Sue Bradley, Circus Oz Women’s Revolutionary Percussion Ensemble, Sally Forth, Gloria Glitter and Glad Tobehere, Sue Ingleton, Teresa O’Reilly, Liz Patterson, Lois Purcell, Jami Trebilcock, Jeannie Wright and Georgine Sparks, Welly Dancing, with Robin Laurie compering. Plus appearances by the Daylesford Banner …
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# 42998
[LEBER, Sylvie]
Public petition for Melbourne community radio station 3RRR to reinstate the women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause”, 1981.
[Melbourne : s.n., 1981]. Foolscap folio sheet, Xerox-printed recto only; old horizontal fold; fine condition. The 3RRR women’s programme “Give Men-a-Pause” ran from 1979-1981. It was founded and hosted by Sylvie Leber, a Melbourne women’s rights activist who, among many other activities, was involved in the creation of Victoria’s first rape crisis centre and the …
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# 45623
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Dancer in front of a painted studio backdrop. Sydney, early 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 166 x 110 mm (mount); recto of mount imprinted in gold ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; the print has pin holes at the corners but is otherwise excellent; the mount is a little toned (verso blank). …
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# 46089
[Photographer unknown]
Signed photograph of dancer Sally Gilmour, of the Ballet Rambert. Melbourne, circa 1948.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 160 x 110 mm, signed in pencil ‘Sally Gilmour’; verso with faint wet stamp, possibly of the Herald Sun newspaper, although only the words ‘Copyright … Melbourne, Australia’ are discernible; short crease at right-hand edge, otherwise very good; the verso has light foxing. This studio portrait of Sally Gilmour, leading British …
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# 45881
BROWN, Wellesley
A vaudeville actress in theatrical costume. Geelong, Victoria, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph in cabinet card format, 165 x 107 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Wellesley Brown, Geelong’; verso blank; both the print and the mount are in very good condition. An unidentified young woman dressed in seventeenth-century men’s costume. In the very early 1900s the photographer, Wellesley Brown, operated the Lucton Studio in Camperdown …
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# 46174
BURMAN, F. C.
Photographic portrait of the tragic actor G. V. Brooke. Melbourne, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘F. C. Burman, Photographic Artist, 41 Madeline Street, Carlton, Melbourne’; both the print and mount are have some light marks. The great Irish-born Shakespearean actor Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866) was a significant figure on the Australian colonial stage from …
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# 46272
ALLAN & CO.
[MUSIC] The Australian manuscript book. No. 1. 6 stave.
[Cover title]. Melbourne : Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd, [c. 1920]. Oblong octavo (150 x 225 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers; an unpaginated music exercise book, rectos and versos of each leaf with 6 staves for the student’s musical notation; unused; pale water stain to top corners of leaves.
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# 45867
BARDWELL, William H. (1836-1929)
Signed studio portrait of actress Alice Lingard. Melbourne, 1876.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto signed by the sitter in ink across the studio imprint in the lower margin ‘Alice Lingard’; verso with ‘Bardwell, Melbourne’ printed in gold ink, along with the wet stamp of the ‘William Horace Lingard Comedy Company’; in fine condition. English actress Alice Dunning …
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# 45625
ADELAIDE PHOTO. COMPANY (SYDNEY)
Studio portrait of a fashionably dressed young woman. Sydney, c.1895.
Printing-out-paper print photograph, carte de visite format, 92 x 57 mm (no mount); verso wet stamped ‘Adelaide Photo. Company. Corner of Pitt St. and Park St., Sydney. One door from Criterion Theatre.’; in very good condition. Possibly a stage performer from the Criterion Theatre?