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About State Library of Queensland, Australia Located in Brisbane, Australia, the State Library of Queensland’s mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible the state’s documentary heritage.

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Front cover of an advertising booklet for the Jenyns Patent Reducing and Supporting Corset

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Advertisement about Jenyn's corsets
  • Shu Wei Chin said:
    It is so incredibly interesting to see the transition in fashion from this advertisement dated 1912. From my perspective, I can see the classic silhouette desired in the Edwardian era (the S curve and soft sloping shoulders), but I also see that the hairstyle resembles the gorgeously curled and crimped short crop popular in the 1920s.
  • Courtney Harper said:
    You can see how the silhouette from the Edwardian era to the silhouette of the 1920s.

Dancer at Tivoli Theatre

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Explanation of the Word “Music”

    From the Greek “muses” who were the 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. As legend has it,
    the muses had no individual attributes for a very long time and they equally patronized every
    form of music and poetry. The muses only developed individual characteristics in the 4th century
    B.C.
    The 9 Muses are:
    1. Calliope—Patron of the epic poem
    2. Clio—Patron of history
    3. Terpsichore—Patron of light poetry and dancing
    4. Melpomene—Patron of tragedy
    5. Thalia—Patron of comedy
    6. Polyhymnia—Patron of lyric poetry
    7. Erato—Patron of elegiac poetry
    8. Urania—Patron of astronomy
    9. Euterp—Patron of Music
    The Greeks word for museum, mouseion, referred to a shrine with priests and sacrifices that was
    centered on a cult for the muses.

    Source:
    maxwellmuseum.unm.edu/sites/default/files/public/World%20...
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    The exotic dancer in the photo is most likely playing the role of a muse, named Terpischore a patron of light and dancing. As explained in my previous comment. I could not discover the identity of the dancer, yet at least there it seems she performed in Tivoli theatre in a role originating from Greek mythology.

    Also, it seems the word is spelled as Terpischore rather than Terpoichore, as the writing on the photo also confirms.
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (/tərpˈsɪkəriː/; Τερψιχόρη, "delight in dancing") is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance and chorus.[1] She lends her name to the word "terpsichorean" which means "of or relating to dance".

    Terpsichore is usually depicted sitting down, holding a lyre, accompanying the dancers' choirs with her music.

    Terpsichore was also said to be the mother of the Sirens (including Parthenope) by the river-god Achelous.

    Source:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpsichore
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146569389 - Table Talk, 12th April, 1923...possibly the same dancer here...

West End Brewery, Brisbane, 1896

  • Nathan Murray said:
    The West End Brewery site now houses the Queensland Theatre Company's Bille Brown Theatre. A section of wall from the original brewery is still present in the current complex.

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