'Highways and Skyways', a diary compiled by Ernest Alfred Crome, ca 1965-ca 1985

MLMSS 9797

fonds

ca 1965-ca 1985

1000683

0.02 metres of textual material - 27 cm x 21.5 cm - typescript

Crome became fascinated with aviation in 1919, when he witnessed the arrival in Sydney of the Vickers Vimy piloted by Ross and Keith Smith, at the end of the first flight from England to Australia. He began collecting aviation material, particularly flight covers and other aero-philatelic items, and continued to do so all his life. In 1928 he met Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm and his collecting was especially focused on the achievements of these two aviators. Ulm was the patron of the Air Mail Society of New South Wales, which Crome founded in 1932. Crome won medals for his philatelic collection at the Melbourne Centenary Exhibition in 1934, the South Australian Centenary Exhibition in 1936 and the Sydney 150th Anniversary Exhibition in 1938.

References: National Library of Australia, Crome Collection
https://www.nla.gov.au/selected-library-collections/crome-collection accessed 10/05/2016

A diary compilation of excerpts from his diaries dating between 1903-1965 that relate to aviation expereinces or aviation history. Title pages divide the book into 3 sections each spanning 20 years. Biographies and introductions are printed at the front of the book, before the diary entries. The inside cover and opening pages have various inscriptions and signatures, which also make the date uncertain.

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