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George Selth Coppin [B 11198] • Photograph

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Summary

George Selth Coppin was a comic actor, entrepreneur and politician (in Victoria). He tossed a coin to decide to sail to Australia rather than America and arrived in Adelaide in 1846 and opened the New Queen's Theatre, later refurbished the old Queen's Theatre and renamed it Royal Victoria Theatre. He built the Semaphore Hotel but lost his patrons to the Victorian goldfields. A plaque in the Comedy theatre in Melbourne names him as "Philanthropist and Father of the Theatre in Victoria"

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Physical description

Photograph; 14.7 cm x 10.0 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1890

Photographer

E. C. Waddington & Co

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Coppin, George Selth, 1819-1906
Actors -- Australia

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Digitisation information

Date

05/01/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,283 x 3,416 pixels (7.8 MP)

Size

23.43 MB

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