This sentimental song in which a girl reminisces with her father about her mother, who has passed away, was recorded on the Pathe record label whilst Ella Caspers was in Europe.

Frances Alda became a leading soprano at the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York in the early 20th century.

Ella Caspers, a contralto who was known as ‘the girl with the voice of gold’, was born in Albury, NSW in 1888. In 1902, she made her debut performance at age 14.

Born in Fitzroy, Victoria in 1875, Florrie Forde was an early star of popular music in Australia. She sailed for England in 1897 and debuted in the London music halls later that year.

Newcastle’s history has been dominated by coal mining and the steel industry.

Known as 'The Australian Queen of Irish Song', Marie Narelle undertook tours to Ireland, the UK and the US, and in the latter she recorded on wax cylinder with Thomas A Edison Inc.

Xavier Mertz (seated) and Belgrave Ninnis (?) on the ‘Aurora’, mid-1911. ‘The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’ 

Timber wharf at Queen’s Pier, Hobart, 1911. ‘The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’

The ‘Aurora’ being loaded at a gravel wharf, possibly London, 1911. 'The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–1913, Version 2’.

The first three shots of Home of the Blizzard – traditionally thought to be of the Aurora in Hobart – are almost certainly of the vessel tied up to a gravel wharf in London.