• Title
  Dame Mary Gilmore , 1948 / photograph by the ABC weekly
• Creator
  Australian Broadcasting Commission
• Call number
  P1/632
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1948
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  887504
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print with typescript letter affixed to reverse - 21.8 x 16.5 cm - gelatin silver
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For a biography of Dame Mary Gilmore, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed February 8, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  Mary Gilmore is posed with open book, holding her glasses. "What bird is that" sits on a pile of books behind her.
  
  Letter, dated 28 Oct. 1948, from The ABC Weekly, thanks Gilmore for participation in a recent interview and offers the photo as a sign of recognition for her involvement in Australian literature. Signed H.G. Ringland, Managing Editor
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Published in: ABC weekly, 1948
• Description source
  
  Titled from letter on reverse
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Gilmore, Dame Mary (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:Album ID : 935399
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Dear Dame Gilmore, Thank you for your letter. We were tremendously pleased at your kindness in giving the interview. Would you please accept these three copies of the photograph which appeared in the A.B.C. Weekly as a tiny recognition of the part you played in Australian letters, Yours sincerely, H.G. Ringland. Managing Editor. / Dame May Gilmore, D.B.E., 99 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst." -- typescript letter on ABC weekly letterhead on the reverse of the photograph.
  
  "Mary Gilmore, aged 83" -- in ink on the lower edge of the photograph
• Date note
  
  Dated from letter on reverse
• Name
  Gilmore, Mary, Dame, 1865-1962
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  aged people
  authors
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE136900

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