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Signed promotion photograph for Warde Morgan and Marie Burke in the musical comedy Katja, 1926
sepia toned, gelatin silver photograph;
image 14.0 x 19.5 cm, in presentation folder
Pictures Collection;
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This image is one item from a massive amount of J.C. Williamson material spread across the Library’s Pictures, Manuscripts and Ephemera collections. It and hundreds of other photographs, posters and programs from Australia’s theatre heyday are currently being sorted, and the shows and stars identified, to make the wealth of the J.C. Williamson collection more accessible (see story, p. 3).

 

June 2005 Volume XV Number 9

THE J.C. WIlliAMSON COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS: A VISUAL RECORD OF POPULAR THEATRE

John Thomson reveals a treasure trove of theatrical imagery in the library’s Collection

THE ROSE-COLOURED DRESS

Rosemary Dobson Bolton tells the story behind the Library’s Norman Lindsay portrait

EDGEWORTH DAVID: KEEPING IN TOUCH(E)

David Branagan previews publication of the Library’s biography of the great geologist T.W. Edgeworth David--and notes the sometime serendipity of research

FROM CALWELL ONWARD: IMMIGRATION MINISTERS IN THE LIBRARY'S ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION

Barry York listens to recordings on Australia’s post-war immigration history

IN CORREY'S GOOD STYLE: GOINGS-ON AT ANNUAL CABARITA PICNICS

Richard Stone delves into some social history via the Library’s Ephemera Collection

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