• Title
  Eva Mylott, opera singer and paternal grandmother of Mel Gibson / The Swiss Studios, Sydney, 1902
• Creator
  The Swiss Photographic Studios
• Call number
  P1/1218
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Aug-Sept 1902
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  432398
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 panel photoprint - image 20.1 x 13.3 cm. , on mount 29.6 x 21 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Eva Mylott, contralto and paternal grandmother of Mel Gibson, was born in 1875 at Tuross Head, N.S.W. Her family owned the whole peninsula at one time. Her father Patrick imported wines and spirits, and had ships trading from Tuross Head. He built Tuross House in the 1870's but rented the property out in 1883 (?) for his daughter's singing lessons. In Dec 1902 she sailed for the United States, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera with Nellie Melba and touring in 1914 with her cousin Marie Narelle (Molly Ryan), another singer, whose recordings are kept and issued by Screensound Australia. She was reputedly one of the many Melba protegees. She married in New York in 1917 and lived on Long Island. Her first son Hutton P. Gibson was Mel Gibson's father. She died in 1920 after her second son Alexander was born. -- (various sources)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Mylott, Eva (BM), April 2010
  Digital order no:a4359018
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp
  "With grateful remembrances for your Mary Kindnesses thine (?). Eva Mylott 1902" -- signature on lower edge of photograph
  
  Eva Mylott photographed with farewell floral tributes, the ribbons reading: "Love from all at Loretto 27.8.02" ; "Good luck" ; "Au revoir not goodbye" ; "... Committee 27.8.02"
• Name
  Mylott, Eva, 1875-1920
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  bouquets
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1662007

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