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Positive image from a scan of a Powerhouse Museum, Tyrrell Collection, glass plate negative

‘the flying fairy and empress of the air’

Kate Rickards in costume as Toots c1888 by Kerry & Co Courtesy Tyrrell Collection, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (85/1286-498) There are some fascinating women in the Dictionary of Sydney. Among those is one who went by many stage names…