• Title
  Adeline Genee, premiere danseuse, 1913 / [May and Mina Moore]
• Creator
  May Moore, 1881-1931
• Call number
  P1/618
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  422981
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - image 24.4 x 15.1 cm. , mount (trimmed) 28.5 x 17.9 cm. - 1 panel photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "A great era of ballet in Australia began in June 1913 when Adeline Genee, a dancer of world renown, arrived with a company called the Imperial Russian Ballet. The most illustrious dancer to have appeared here ... [Genee] retired after the tour, though she occasionally appeared in charity performances in England, where she lived until her death in 1970" -- For details of Genee's tour of Australia in 1913 and a portrait of her held in the Latrobe Library, wearing the same dress, see: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.172-173)
  For a career biography of Adeline Genee to 1911, see: Who's who in the theatre : a biographical record of the contemporary stage / compiled and edited John Parker. Lond. : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1912 (pp.196-197)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 2010
• Published Information
  Published in : "A famous dancer; arrival in Sydney", The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 June, 1913, page 3¶¶¶Published in:- Our yesterdays : Australian life since 1853 in photographs / arranged by Irma Pearl; with a commentary by Cyril Pearl. London, Angus & Robertson, 1954, page 154
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Genee, Adeline (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4216018
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  No photographers' stamp
  To G.L. Goodman -- in pencil lower right hand corner of the photograph
  "Yours sincerely / Adeline Genee-Isitt / 1913" -- signature lower right hand corner of the photograph
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Moore, Mina, 1882-1957
  
• Name
  Genee, Adeline, 1878-
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ballet dancers
  cats
  portraits
  women's clothing & accessories
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3217758

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