Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1920-1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box (Offsite Storage)
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Phyllis May Danaher, born on 27 July 1908 at Bulimba, Brisbane, was a ballet teacher in Brisbane. Her pupils included Garth Welch and Lucette Aldous. Founding president of the Queensland branch of the Australasian Society of Operatic Dancing (later the Queensland Ballet Society); stage director; appointed MBE in 1969 for services to dance; made a fellow of the Royal Academy of Dance; her legacy is the Phyllis Danaher memorial scholarship. She died on 31 May 1991 at Clayfield, Brisbane.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1920-1955
Collection alternatively titled as: Phyllis Danaher Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Newspaper cuttings, programmes, magazine articles relating to ballet (Australian and overseas) including : costumes/wardrobes, productions, publicity performers, gossip, etc.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Folder 1: Catalogues, programs, notes
Folder 2: Scrapbook of clippings, marked Dec 1952 to Dec 1953
Folder 3: Scrapbook of clippings, marked 1954
Folder 4: Scrapbook of loose newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Not sorted.
Folder 5: Newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Not sorted.
Folder 6: Newspaper clippings. Not sorted.
Folder 7: Newspaper clippings. Not sorted.
Folder 8: Newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Not sorted.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
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Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
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Libraries Australia ID
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Status
Migrated
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, AM, 10-Feb-2020.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.