- Bib ID:
- 4931230
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Postle, Cliff, 1913-2004
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1931
- 1 digital photograph : digital print, b&w ; image 19.1 x 25 cm., on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
- Series:
- Postle, Cliff, 1913-2004 Collection of aviation, coastal and social life scenes, 1920-1965
- Summary:
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"Interested spectators gather around the Avro X after arriving at Croydon airport with the first official Australia-England air mail of some 50,000 letters. Kingsford Smith and G.U. Allen picked up the mail from the Southern Sun, which crashed in Malaya. This leg of the journey, Malaya to Croydon, took 13 days. Kingsford Smith is pictured with bags of the mail"--Information from acquisitions documentation.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from caption list.
- Part of the: Collection of aviation, coastal and social life scenes, 1920-1965.
- Inscription from typed label printed lower right.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-151431238
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Bruce Postle, 2010.
- Subject:
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- Occupation:
- Aircraft pilots
- Other authors/contributors:
- Postle, Cliff, 1913-2004
- Related Records:
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1931
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