Guide to the Papers of Charles Ulm

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MS 215

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: June 1970

Collection Summary

Creator
Charles Ulm
Title
Papers of Charles Ulm
Date Range
1931-1969
Collection Number
MS 215
Extent
0.69 metres (2 folios + 3 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Access conditions

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au) for the access conditions.

Copying and publishing conditions

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Charles Ulm, National Library of Australia, MS 215, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Item Descriptions

Navigation chart with mileage and meteorological notes for route Kauai to Brisbane and other points enroute. It carries photo of C.T.P. Ulm and his signature, 1931. 32 × 36 cm. framed. (File 1)

Souvenir book of flight of the aircraft VH.UXX "Faith in Australia" - Commander, Flight-Lt C.T.P. Ulm, A.F.C. Includes photos and first flight cover, June 1933 - August 1934. (14p. 31 × 50 cm.) (File 2)

Various items (1-25) including letters, photographs and other papers, 1934-1951 (File 3)

Letters: 27/8/1934 from H.P. Brown introducing C.T.P. Ulm to Postmaster at Los Angeles. (1p. typescript) 26/3/1951 from W.C. Sloan to F.M. Forde stating material forwarded by him is genuine and other facts, (1p. typescript unsigned)

Memo 18/4/1934 from Ulm giving flight details for Canada - Australia flight, (9p. typescript dup. annotated)

Newscuttings including notices on Ulm's lost plane on flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu.

4 photos 25 × 21 cm. and 2, 25 × 18 cm. includes Ulm, Sloan and others with plane.

Landing ground sketch [photocopy] 1p.

Signatures of J.L. Skilling, Geo. McC. Littlejohn, C.T.P. Ulm on note paper from Chateau Frontenac Quebec 19/11/1934.

Leaflet advertising visit of Flight-Lt C.T.P. Ulm and G.U. Allen in "Southern Star" at District Park Aerodrome Sunday 27th [193?] and offering flights for 10/-, children half price, with special non-stop flights from Newcastle to Port Stephens for 30/-return fare.

Various items (1-2) including air mail, a stamp, a chart and a letter, 1934-1935 (File 4)

First official air mail between Australia - Papua - New Guinea, carried by Flight-Lt C.T.P. Ulm in "Faith in Australia": chart prepared by J.R. Halligan during the flight shows landing places and times for outward and return flights; a Papuan and a New Guinea stamp: Signatures of the crew and a group photo, Lae 30/7/1934.

Letter 20/11/1935 from J.R. Halligan to K. Binns Commonwealth Librarian offering the souvenir chart for inclusion in the records. (1p. typescript)

Various items (1-2) comprising a letter and a note, 1934-1969 (File 5)

Letter 11/2/1969 from J.S. Cumpston, Dept of External Affairs to National Librarian Canberra, advising a number of items donated by Mr Sloan of Ottawa relating to Capt. Ulm is being forwarded for inclusion with other papers of Ulm's. (1p. typescript)

Handwritten note on brown paper that Capt. Ulm's plane was forced down 300 miles east of Kauai and all hands lost, September 1934.


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