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NTRS 2462 Digitised images of photograph album relating to air race and air mail

Recording Agency:Cropley, Sadie Florence Sarah (75)
Date Range:1934 - 1934
Access:Open
Location:Darwin (NTAC)
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Function / Content

This series consists of a digitised copy of an album of photographs and news clippings relating to the Darwin stopover of the London-Melbourne MacRobertson's air race, and the arrival in Darwin of the first Australia-England air mail service. Ronald Cropley was a race official in Darwin for the air race and the album contains his photographs of the planes and competitors including: Cathcart Jones and Waller in their De Havilland Comet, the U.S. Boeing "Warner Bros. Comet", and the Danish team of Hansen and Jensen. Also included are news clippings relating to the progress of the race. The air mail section of the album includes: photographs of the Qantas planes, date stamped envelopes, and news clippings about the new service.

Recordkeeping System

None, one only

Recording Agency

PeriodTitleAgency Id
1934 - 1934Cropley, Sadie Florence Sarah75

Related Series

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