Australian Women 1830s - 1990s
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# 46311
A.T.O.M.
[FEMINISM] For Love or Money : a study guide
Australian Feature Films in the classroom. [Cover title]. Carlton South, Vic. : ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media), 1983. Quarto (290 X 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers (marked and dog-eared), 30 pp., illustrated; occasional creasing. For love or money : a history of women and work in Australia (1983) is a 16mm feature-length documentary film by Megan …
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# 45903
SWISS STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Ada Evans, the first Australian woman to obtain a law degree and the first woman admitted to the Bar in New South Wales. Sydney, circa 1905.
Gelatin silver print photograph, oval Paris Panel format, 190 x 140 mm, on the original card mount with the blind stamp of Swiss Studios, Sydney; in superb condition, with the original tissue guard preserved (lightly foxed) and still housed in the studio’s green card portfolio, 310 x 235 mm (sunned at edges). Ada Emily Evans …
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# 45869
MATHEWSON & CO.
Studio portrait of a young woman in Salvation Army uniform. Brisbane, circa 1895.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 108 mm (mount); recto with the imprint in silver of ‘Mathewson & Co., Next Royal Bank only, Brisbane’; both the print and the mount are in good condition.
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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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# 28959
RUSKIN STUDIO (MELBOURNE); J. C. WILLIAMSON (publisher)
Signed photograph of Australian star of the musical stage, Madge Elliott. Melbourne, June 1924.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 190 x 145 mm, signed in ink by the sitter ‘Madge Elliott’ at lower right, and ‘Ruskin / Melb.’ by the photographer at lower left; on the original board mount, 350 x 240 mm, imprinted at lower margin: ‘SOUVENIR… Madge Elliott’s Farewell Performance in “Whirled into Happiness”, His Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne …
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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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# 46160
McNEILL, Frank A.
Studio portrait of Constance May Richmond, age 13 years. Adelaide, 1915.
Gelatin silver print photograph, postcard format 132 x 83 mm, verso with imprint of ‘Frank A. McNeill Studios, Adelaide & Port’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Constance May Richmond, age 13 years / 1915’; superb condition. Quite simply one of the finest Australian portraits of this period that we …
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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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# 40913
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
Rainbow
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …
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# 43102
GREENFELD, M. W. (Maximilian William)
Studio portrait of two elegant young ladies reading a letter. Sydney, ca. 1875.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso with the back mark of ‘The Royal Studio, M. W. Greenfeld, Photographer, Artist in Oil, Water Colors & Crayons. 328, George Street, Sydney’, incorporating a vignette illustration of an artist’s palette; the print has some light surface rubbing in the upper section, …
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# 41374
BOYES, Ann
[MELBOURNE] Note addressed to a young Dorothy Boyes (who would later marry the writer Edward Dyson) from her grandmother, displaying signs of semantic dementia. St. Kilda, circa 1900.
1 page, quarto (225 x 170 mm), manuscript in ink; headed ’94 Tennson Yon [i.e. Tennyson] St. St. Kilda Melbourne 90 19 I forget yere’, addressed to ‘My dear little Dot’ and signed ‘Ann’; the verso has a later inscription in biro by a family member that explains the note was written by ‘Grandma Boyes …
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# 46486
KOORIE WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS PROJECT
Koorie Women Mean Business : 1992 Conference Report
Melbourne : Koorie Women Mean Business Project, 1992. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pp., illustrated; an excellent copy, with loosely inserted ephemera relating to the Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency Cooperative Limited and Women in Philanthropy conference from around the same year. Trove locates only the copy in Museums Victoria Library. …
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# 46476
CHICAGO WOMEN'S LIBERATION UNION; WORDS FOR WOMEN (Sydney) (publisher)
Socialist Feminism
Price 30 cents. Glebe, NSW : Words for Women, [c.1973]. Small quarto (260 x 205 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers (lightly foxed), 16 pp.; contents clean and sound. ‘The following is a paper passed in November 1972 by the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. We have omitted sections which we feel might not be useful to us …
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# 46484
WNS (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] Women’s News Service no. 18 1978
Carlton, Vic. : WNS, 1978. Foolscap folio (335 x 205 mm), stapled self-wrappers (light foxing), pp. 28, illustrated’ last leaf detached, otherwise good condition. Articles on abortion, rape, custody rights, adolescent friendship, love and feminism, and coming out as lesbian. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.