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[Dame Nellie Melba With Lord And Lady Stanley]

c1914–1920. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, partially obscured studio line “Sutcliffe & Akers [366a Bourke St, Melbourne]” on backing below image, annotated in an unknown hand in pencil verso, 17.6 x 31.1cm. Slight silvering, laid down on backing below image.

Annotation includes “Melba and Victorian Governor and wife [Lord and Lady Stanley] at Geelong(?).”

Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920, and his wife, were good friends with opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, with Lady Stanley named as a godmother of Melba’s granddaughter Pamela. Ref: SMH, 1.10.2011; Yarra Ranges Regional Museum.

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Item #CL198-65

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