professional photographer, born at Wainui, New Zealand on 6 October 1882, the second daughter of the seven children of Robert Walter Moore, a sawyer and farmer, and Sarah Jane, née Hellyer. Mina married a poet and company executive, William Alexander Tainsh, on 20 December 1916 in Melbourne. They lived at Warrandyte, Victoria, where Mina established close friendships with a number of women artists including Clara Southern and Jo Sweatman . She sold the Melbourne studio to Ruth Hollick in about 1918, after the birth of the first of her three children. A late commission, in 1927, was a presentation book of photographs for the Shell Oil Company, where her husband worked. Mina died at Croydon on 30 January 1957. See entry for Moore, Annie May (May) for full biographical details.
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- Writers:
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- Date written:
- 1995
- Last updated:
- 2011
