- Bib ID:
- 4548262
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1920
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 24.6 x 19.4 cm.
- Summary:
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"Australian prima donna Dame Nellie Melba's broadcast from the Marconi works, Chelmscord, England, on 15 June 1920, was responsible for a tremendous upsurge of interest in broadcasting. Her singing was heard as far away as Persia. Note the makeshift microphone, constructed from a standard telephone microphone and the wood from a cigar box."--Information from typed label on verso.
- Notes:
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- Subject:
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- Occupation:
- Singers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1920
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