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447028
  • Title
    Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from nitrate negatives, ca. 1900-1950
  • Call number
    PXA 1063/1-86
  • Level of description
    item
  • Date

    ca. 1900-1950
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    447028
  • Physical Description
    86 Photographs - 16.5 x 21.5 cm. - silver gelatin
  • Scope and Content
    EARLY QANTAS
    1. Capt. Bert [H.B.] Hussey and first QEA passenger Lady Louis Mountbatten, [on the steps of a De Havilland DH 86A,] 1935
    2. De Havilland DH 50A "Atlanta" G-AUHE, built at Longreach
    3. Arrival of first aerial mail on De Havilland DH 61 Giant Moth "Apollo", pilot P.H. Moody, Brisbane, 23 Apr 1929
    4. Passenger cabin, "Apollo"
    5. Pilots and "Apollo", ca. 1925
    6. Pilot Alexander A. Kennedy, air mail and "Atalanta", Mt Isa
    7. A.A. Kennedy (in plane) and Hudson Fysh (smoking), opening flight, 3 Feb 1922
    8. McGinniss C.A.D. Aerodrome [-?] at Fysh [- -?] Colo [?]
    9. K.V. Anderson's biplane in the desert, photographed by Lester J. Brain from the air
    10-14. Hudson Fysh [and son ?] fly fishing and camp, [late 1940's ?]
    15. Ross & Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy G-EAOU and Capt. H.N. Wrigley's BE 2e, B6183, Darwin, 12 Dec 1919
    16-21. De Havilland DH 50A air ambulance "Victory" G-AUER & VH-UER, also VH-UFW and radio operators in cockpit and on the ground
    22-24. Burketown-Borroloola (incl. crossing the Robinson River), Hudson Fysh's Longreach-Darwin survey, 1919
    25. Lester Brain, Aborigine and "Atalanta", Northern Territory
    26. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce and Mrs Bruce with Fysh, first airmail to New Guinea G-AUER
    27. Two men with De Havilland Puss Moth VH-UPA
    28. First airmail arrives Normanton from Cloncurry (?)
    29. Lester Brain & Butler meet at Charleville, 10 Dec 1934
    30-31. Lt. McGinniss & Hudson Fysh in uniform with the car, Longreach-Darwin survey, 1919
    32-36. Wondercraft (?) and aerial photographs
    37-41. Queensland's first aerial mail Armstrong Whitworth welcomed at Winton, Nov 1922 (first scheduled Qantas mail and passenger flight operated from Charleville to Cloncurry)
    42. Qantas crash, G-AUEB, Longreach, pilot A.W. Vigers, 18 Dec 1923
    43. Qantas crash, G-AUEF, Maxelton, pilot Lester Brain, 25 Jul 1925
    44-45. Fysh and overseer from Wellshot; wild turkey shot from biplane
    46. Fysh and the BE 2e G-AUBF; first cargo of freight in flood time, Charleville, 1922
    47. Ivy M. Leon, first Qantas woman passenger (Cloncurry-Longreach) with Fysh, W. Arthur Baird and the BE 2e
    48. Fysh and early Qantas biplane
    49-50. Armstrong Whitworth G-AUDE sold to Qantas, Aug 1922
    51. Refuelling G-EBC?
    52. Vickers Vulcan, the Flying Pig, G-EBET
    53-56. Qantas crash, G-AUEB, Longreach, pilot A.W. Vigers, 18 Dec 1923
    57. Qantas crash, G-AUEF, Maxelton, pilot Lester Brain, 25 Jul 1925
    58. Pilot in the cockpit of a De Havilland DH 61 Giant Moth
    59. Aero Club office and biplanes, Mascot

    IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, INDIA
    60-82. Incl. Hudson Fysh, Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta aircraft "Artemis" G-ABTJ, signal bell, Indian official, Short flying boat G-AETX, Handley Page HP 42 airliner, airports and flying boat pontoons, 1930's

    MISCELLANEOUS
    83. Vine covered house, Tasmania (?)
    84. Families and wagons packed for land selection (?)
    85. Outback homestead
    86. Goods train and workmen
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Titles devised from nitrate negatives' envelopes
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