• Title
  Kate Rooney, Australian concert contralto, and her "Little Billie" (baby), ca. 1920-1925 / Heidi Pictures, Broadway, N.Y.
• Creator
  Heidi Pictures
• Call number
  P1/1491
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1920-1925
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442030
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 26 x 18 cm. - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 1 printed sheet, in folder
  
• 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) -- reference: Opera for the Antipodes : opera in Australia 1881-1939 / Alison Gyger. Sydney : Currency Press and Pellinor, 1990
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Rooney, Kate (BM), June 2010
  Digital order no:Album ID : 937198
• Signatures / 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 signature beneath the photograph
• Name
  Rooney, "Billie"
  Rooney, Kate
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Infants--Photographs.
  
• Topic
  mothers
  portraits
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1660944

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