Collection 09: Nancy Bird Walton further photographs, 1918-2000 and pilot's log book, 1952-1955

PXE 1578

sub-fonds

1918-2000

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

1046128

Approximately 450 photographic prints (3 albums and 2 folders in 2 boxes) - gelatin silver, colour, some suplicates, a few copies
1 logbook - 21 x 19 cm - printed, handwritten

BOX 1

Folder 1 : Personal photographs, 1918-2000
Presentation at Court, 1939
WAAAF uniform
At home
With Dick Smith "This is your life"

Folder 2 : Medical flights, 1952-1954

Album 1 : ca. 1960-1980
1. Melbourne 1976
2-3. Visit to Qantas Jet Base, Mascot, 1970
4. Captain Donald Campbell on a kangaroo shoot to promote NSW Air Ambulance, Moree, 1962 ?
5. Dick Smith & family, Christmas, 1976 and 1978
6. Cockpit of Cessna 172 VH-RJW, Wagga Wagga, 20 February 1979
7. Arriving to present wings at the Aero Club dinner, Tamworth
8. Model of hangar & Southern Cross by Eric Carter, Newcastle
9. Nancy with model of DH Leopard VH-UUG in the Smithsonian and Powerhouse Museums
10. Certificate, Aviation Medical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1979
11. Hanna Reitsch, glider Cirrus ; German women pilots on a visit to Australia
12. At the International Airport, 1978 ; Colonel Wolf Flack
13-14. Tribute function
15. Nancy in an ultralight aeroplane, Barraba Shire airstrip opening, 3 May 1980

Album 2 : ca. 1998-2000
1. With a Spitfire
2-3. England, 1999
4. Germany, 1999
6-7. American friends in Sydney
10-17. Turning the first sod, Back O' Bourke Centre
18-19. Alex McArthur Trophy
20. Afghan mosque, Bourke
21. Lockheed Electra Ansertes in K.N.I.L.M. livery, 1998
22. Manning River Aero Club show, 2000
23-24. Nancy Bird Terminal, Bourke, 2000
25. Queen Elizabeth II, Bourke, 2000
26. Germany
27. Australian Women Pilots' Association dinner, 2000
28-29. Powerhouse Museum
30-31. Unveiling the memorial to Charles Kingsford Smith's trans-Pacific flight, 2000 ("72 years late")
32-33. Ansertes

BOX 2

Nancy Bird Walton's Pilot's Log Book, 1952-1982, including medical cetificates and pilot licences

Album 3 : ca. 1999-2003
1-3. Launch of Dick Smith Foods, 1999
4-5. Family and friends, 2000
6-11. Centenary of Federation, Australia Day, 1 January 2001, including Kerry Chikarovski, Kim Beazley, Governor Marie Bashir
12-13. Queensland, 2000
14. With Ruth Cracknell, Order of Australia event
15. With Kamahl and his wife
16. Australian Aviation Museum
17. 85th Birthday
18. With G-LCGL, England, 1993 ; painting of VH-UUG
19. Family
20-21. House on the Harbour near Captain Cook Cruises mooring
22-25. Friends and family lunch ; arriving 60th Anniversary WAAAF, Adelaide
26-27. Australian Women Pilots' Association 50th Anniversary dinner, 2000
28. Lunch
29. 60th Anniversary WAAAF, Adelaide, 1999, with Honourable Beryl Evans
30. With Marie Stoyles, 2001
31. With Dick Smith's trans-Tasman balloonist John Wallington at a pilots' conference
32-34. Jean Batten memorial
35. With Prime Minister John Howard, 60th Anniversary WAAAF, Adelaide, 1999
36. In Holland, 1938
37-39. Museum function ; Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach, 2001 ; Dick Smith opening the Hubert Wilkins house, Hallett, South Australia
40. Hughenden, Queensland, 2001 ; with Don Burke at a dinner for Sir Edmund Hilary
42. Diabetic Club meeting ; Connie the Lockheed Constellation
43. Penrith Centenary of Federation dinner with Mayor Pat Sheehy, 2001
44. With the presidents of the British and European Women Pilots' Associations, 1998
45. Women pilots, Canberra, 2001
46-49. Speaking at Kogarah Council
51. International Club, 2002
52. Cooktown, 2002
53-54. California, 2002
56-58. Speaking at Camden
59. With the Snowy Hydro helicopter
60. With John Bird and his Australian and American wartime medals
61. Lockheed Electra Ansertes painted in K.N.I.L.M. colours
66. Queensland Rural Women's Network Inc., 2001
67. With Don Burke at Sir Edmund Hilary dinner ; Sir Edmund Hilary
68-70. Laying a wreath, John Flynn's grave, Alice Springs, 2001
72-73. 50th anniversary Australian Women Pilots' Association, Perth, 2001 ; Nancy Bird display at Kingsford Smith Airport, 2002
76-77. Cairns, 2002
78-79. California, 2002
81. With Joan Sutherland
84-87. Port Macquarie, 2003 ; Mt George, 2003
91. With Mickie Hardie, Founder of Asthma Foundation
95. In the cockpit, NASA, California
99. Cooktown