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رقم الكائنM2012/030:036
الوصفThis is three newspaper clippings recording Etty and Clara Phillips involvement with the Ladies' Orchestra in the Bio Tableaux in 1907. The article states that E(tty) Phillips plays the double bass while the C(lara) Phillips plays the violin. In the photograph Etty Phillips is first from the left, while Clara Phillips is third from the left. There are 8 women in total in the image with their instruments. The newspaper article states that 'Mr Mason is justly proud of his Elect Orchestra, entirely composed of ladies. Iza Sharp conducts at the piano: E Phillips plays the double bass, and Clara Phillips the violin; Lenore Pursehouse, the solo cornet; E Dyer, the clarionette; Angela di Rago, the slide trombone; M. Sharp, the drums and tympani; while Hildred Greatorex is leader. All of these young ladies, save Miss di Rago, are Australians, and all of them play on numerous instruments. This orchestra, it is said, boasts the only lady double -bass in Australia. It certainly helps the bio-tableaux pictures a great deal. The finest and most complete picture of Niagara we have yet seen is now on view. The life of a trotting horse, from birth to the finished and highly trained article is a first class picture. Business is good and growing. A number of entirely new pictures are on view this week.' On the reverse are advertisements and pieces of article from other pages of the newspaper. Notes written in pen on the front and back identify the Phillips women and the year this took place.
Part of a large collection of photographs and documents belonging to the Phillips Family, an old Australian Jewish family that resided in New South Wales from the 1850s.
Barnett Phillips was born in 1833 in England. A devout Jew, he attended the Jewish Free School in Spittalfields, London from 1838 to 1843. He later immigrated to New South Wales, Australia. In c.1858 he married Caroline Cohen in Young, New South Wales. Caroline, also born in England, had immigrated to Goulburn along with her sister Dinah Cohen.
Barnett earned his livelihood in several ways over the course of his life. He spent time as a theatrical producer, builder, and furniture merchant. Newspaper clippings from publications of the Burrangong Courier in 1862 record Barnett as the sole proprietor of the Diggers' Theatre in Burrangong. The collection also holds a licence granted on the 3rd of June 1867 allowing Barnett to give 'Public Exhibitions and Entertainments' within the colony of New South Wales, except for within the city of Sydney.
From 1868 Barnett and Caroline were living in Sydney, within the Surrey Hills and Paddington area. By c.1909 they had moved to 300 Moore Park Road, Paddington, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
Between 1860 and 1881 Barnett and Caroline had ten children: Ann (who died before her second birthday); Moses (George) Barnett; Elizabeth (Lilly); Rosetta (Rose); Zelig "Phillip"; Deborah; Clara Eve; Sarah Ann; Joel Lewis; Esther (Etty). Of all the children, George was the only one to marry, wedding Sarah Jane Dowling in 1887. He was subsequently disowned by his parents for having married outside of the faith.
Part of a large collection of photographs and documents belonging to the Phillips Family, an old Australian Jewish family that resided in New South Wales from the 1850s.
Barnett Phillips was born in 1833 in England. A devout Jew, he attended the Jewish Free School in Spittalfields, London from 1838 to 1843. He later immigrated to New South Wales, Australia. In c.1858 he married Caroline Cohen in Young, New South Wales. Caroline, also born in England, had immigrated to Goulburn along with her sister Dinah Cohen.
Barnett earned his livelihood in several ways over the course of his life. He spent time as a theatrical producer, builder, and furniture merchant. Newspaper clippings from publications of the Burrangong Courier in 1862 record Barnett as the sole proprietor of the Diggers' Theatre in Burrangong. The collection also holds a licence granted on the 3rd of June 1867 allowing Barnett to give 'Public Exhibitions and Entertainments' within the colony of New South Wales, except for within the city of Sydney.
From 1868 Barnett and Caroline were living in Sydney, within the Surrey Hills and Paddington area. By c.1909 they had moved to 300 Moore Park Road, Paddington, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
Between 1860 and 1881 Barnett and Caroline had ten children: Ann (who died before her second birthday); Moses (George) Barnett; Elizabeth (Lilly); Rosetta (Rose); Zelig "Phillip"; Deborah; Clara Eve; Sarah Ann; Joel Lewis; Esther (Etty). Of all the children, George was the only one to marry, wedding Sarah Jane Dowling in 1887. He was subsequently disowned by his parents for having married outside of the faith.
مكان الإنتاجSydney, New South Wales, Australia
التاريخ 1907
الموضوعwomen, music, orchestras, musical instruments, double basses, violinists, drums (musical instruments), tympani, photography, music conductors
اسم الكائنnewspapers
مادةpaper
الأبعاد
- Image length: 97.00 mm
width: 185.00 mm
Text length: 80.00 mm
width: 60.00 mm
اللغة
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Liz Pozniak