Studio portrait of Minnie Walton, Australian actress and singer. London, circa 1874.

A$175 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 65 mm (mount); recto and verso with imprint of Fradelle Marshall, Regent Street, London; verso also inscribed in pencil in period hand Minnie Walton ; the print is a little pale but in good condition, as is the mount. Minnie Walton was a popular Australian performer who married impresario Frederick Lyster. She died at an early age in San Francisco. The following is an extract from an obituary which appeared in The Era , London, 27 July 1879: The deceased was a native of Sydney, New South Wales, and first came before the public as a vocalist. While fulfilling her professional engagements in America Miss Minnie Walton became the wife of Mr Frederick Lyster, who was associated with his brother, Mr W. Sauren Lyster, in the management of an English opera company. When that organisation visited California in 1868 Mr and Mrs Fred. Lyster accompanied the troop, and October 17th of that year Miss Minnie Walton – for the maiden name was always retained for professional purposes – made her first appearance as an actress as Eily O Connor, in The Collen Bawn, at Maguire s Opera House, San Francisco. Her association with that company continued till the Californian Theatre was first opened, January 18th, 1869, when she transferred her services to that establishment, and there remained until the autumn of 1870. Her first appearance in New York was made at Wood s Museum, November 14th, 1870, when she was associated with the Lydia Thompso

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