Scrapbook. ca. 1911-1937.

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Scrapbook. ca. 1911-1937.

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Scrapbook relating to Dame Nellie Melba, kept by her personal assistant. Comprises newspaper cuttings, photographs and performance programmes. Includes a series of articles "Melba's life story" published in the Herald newspaper (Melbourne), September 1925. Photographs include portraits of Melba, views of Coombe Cottage (her home near Lilydale, Vic.) and scenes of her arrival at Perth on the R.M.S. "Orsova" in 1914.

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Libraries Australia

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Melba, Nellie

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Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell. In 1882 she married Charles Nesbit Frederick Armstrong, who died in 1948. From the description of Papers concerning Mitchell and Armstrong families [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225791512 Mrs Helen Porter Armstrong, soprano singer, was born in, and derived her non de plume from Melbourne. She first appeared in opera in 1887 after concentrating for many years on her piano playing and made her final appearance in...