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Date: Between 1928 and 1934

By: Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: 1/4-015039-F

Description: The Southern Cross arriving at New Plymouth with a large crowd and photographers running towards it. E T Robson was the photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1908, 1925-1928, 1934

From: Dangerfield, Leonard Joseph, fl 1988-2002 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-1154

Description: Quantity: 17 b&w original photographic print(s). 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 2 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1931-1932

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1032

Description: Most of this album shows the aircraft models made and flown by Theo Nightingall in the early 1930s. Images record in detail the structural framework of the models, the finished model aircraft, and Theo flying them in the open air. This record is interspersed with images of Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cross" in flight and on the ground. Theo Nightingall was a member of the Waitemata Model Aero Club in the early 1930s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1933

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1930-1939]

By: Pat Studio

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1933-01

Description: Cover shows a caricature of aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and maps of Australia and New Zealand. The centre spread is a world map showing the routes of Kingsford Smith's travels. The back page gives the itinerary of his tour around New Zealand. Other Titles - Official souvenir programme; Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 12 pages, each 220 x 146 mm.

Date: 1927

By: Crown Studios (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-f-185

Description: Shows arrival of "Southern Cross" in Christchurch in 1927, and subsequent tour through New Zealand of Charles Kingsford Smith, C T P Ulm and other members of crew, in aircraft of the New Zealand Permanent Air Force Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1927-1939

By: Street, Sydney, 1910-1970

Reference: PAColl-10109

Description: Photographs taken by Sidney Street of people and scenes in New Zealand between 1927 and 1938, relating to holidays he had in different parts of the country. Places include Wanganui City and the Wanganui River; Ruapehu, including the skifields; Feilding; Hamilton and the Waikato River, including bridges and hydro-electric dams; Wairakei; Rotorua including lakes and thermal areas, Maori villages and buildings; Taranaki and Hawera; Christchurch, Timaru and Waimate. Also includes photographs of pioneer aviators Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Maurice Buckley, and their planes. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Arrangement: All prints were originally in one album which was cut up by the donor prior to their arrival at the Library. Donor has removed photographs of her father. Library archivist has arranged the prints in groups by place. Quantity: 200 b&w original photographic print(s) some mounted. Provenance: Sidney Street is the donor's father.

Date: 11 Sep 1928?

By: Pickering, Neville George, 1923-1988

Reference: PAColl-10033

Description: Photographic print showing Charles Kingsford Smith (left) and Charles Thomas Phillippe Ulm after their trans-Tasman flight of 1928. Shows them seated in a vehicle which is moving past a crowd. The flight landed in Wigram, so this photograph is likely to have been taken in Christchurch. Photographer unidentified. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Source of descriptive information - Kingsford Smith and Ulm identified by the Alexander Turnbull Library's Curatorial Services Leader John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 8.5 x 11.2 cm Provenance: Donor is the widow of the former mayor of Christchurch, Neville Pickering. Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Neville Pickering: Ephemera. Items also passed on appraisal to published, manuscripts, and drawings, paintings and prints..

Date: [1930s]

By: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968; Phillips, Edward Arthur, -1966

Reference: PA1-o-305

Description: Album created with aviation pioneer Horatio Murdoch MacKay. Photographs include several in which MacKay was the first man to fly across the Tasman as a passenger, making the flight with Charles Kingsford Smith. One sequence shows Boeing biplane (purchased by New Zealand Airways Ltd in 1934), shipped from Vancouver and assembed in New Zealand, and the first landing at Green Island `Aerodrome'. A number of views of different aeroplanes, both monoplanes and biplanes follows. There are a large number of postcards of Launceston, Jenolan Caves, and Ballarat in Australia, and caves in the Waitomo area of New Zealand. Photographs of a group travelling on a South Island tour by White Star Taxis, a company which MacKay established, including views of the first hotel at Wanaka `The White Star Private Hotel'. One scene shows one of the taxis after an accident. Other scenes show a group skiing, a group at the summit of the Crown Range, and a large group on a motor launch. The last sequence is chiefly family photographs, including several houses, and two different wedding parties; several portraits, possibly of Horatio MacKay's wife Helen Emma (nee Griffiths). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue and brown patterned cover, entitled `Snapshots'; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1920-1925

From: MacKay, B.R.S.A. (Estate) :Family photographs

Reference: PA1-o-784

Description: The MacKay family in the early 1920s. Some probably taken at their home in Seatoun Wellington. Other photos record life on a farm from a childs point of view with rides on sheep and freshly slaughtered pigs hanging outside. There are views of the Dunedin Exhibition in 1925 and many people shots of family members Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1928

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, timetables, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand]

By: Pawson, Ambrose Charles, 1877?-1950; Brett Printing and Publishing Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-1928-01

Description: Reports that the plane passed Farewell Spit at 6.30 am, Wellington at 7.15 am, Kaikoura at 8.25 am. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Letterpress on sheet 340 x 220 mm.

Date: 1 September and 11 September 1928

By: Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes, 1905-1997

Reference: PAColl-0172

Description: Photographs of Charles Edward Kingsford Smith and the aircraft, Southern Cross Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1930

From: Gibbens, Ken :Photographs of New Zealand, Australia, California, Hawaii, Samoa and Fiji

By: Gibbens, Ken, active 1920s-

Reference: PA1-o-836

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1935-[1950]

By: Wilton, Rita Heather, 1905-

Reference: MS-Group-0787

Description: The scrapbook includes a decorated title page, presumably by Rito McKinnon and clippings relating to flying personalities, her own career and experiences as a pilot and general information about flying. Personalities included are George Bolt, Squadron-Leader G L Stedman, the crash of Ken Waller, Mrs B Furkert, Miss Trevor Hunter and family clippings relating to her sisters and marriage to Haydn Wilton. Also part of a brochure relating to Brooklands Aviation, Surrey. Loose papers, which comprise the bulk of the collection, cover much the same ground and include transcripts of Cecil Roberts's `The Pilot's prayer' and sections from `The Fountain' by Charles Morgan; postcards showing a De Havilland Dragon and the Imperial airliners, `Syrinx' and `Heracles'; menus for the second graduation, RNZAF, course 22, No 6 AOS, RCAF, Prince Albert with photograph and some signatures (1941) and farewell dinner, no 4 observers RNZAF, also with some signatures (1940); telegram to Haydn Wilton to report for mobilisation (1939); printed letter of thanks to Rito Wilton for her letter relating to the death of Reginald William Roots from Cecil Roots (1941). Also words and music for `Sussex by the sea' (duplicated). Source of title - Supplied Rito McKinnon learned to fly at the Wellington Aero Club in the 1930s and began a scrapbook of aviation and personal matters Quantity: 1 volume(s). 2 folder(s). 0.04 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter Provenance: The scrapbook was found by Roger Hinves of Crows Nest, Sydney, in 1995, at 63 Burlington Street, also Crows Nest, Sydney. It was part of debris from a deceased estate. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Graeme Eskrigge. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wellington, Jan 1999 Ink drawings of small plane doing aerobatics on inside cover, and photographs of pilots and various groups

Date: 1928

From: [Ephemera of quarto size, timetables, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand]

By: Marlborough Express (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-B-AVIATION-1928-02

Description: Front shows a photograph of Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith, and of the plane. Inside is the plane's itinerary and a group portrait of Mr T H M'Williams (wireless operator), Squadron leader Kingsford Smith, Flight Lieutenant Ulm, and Mr H A Litchfield (navigator). The back cover shows a photograph of the Post Office in Blenheim. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded card. Physical Description: Photolithographs, on folded card 152 x 248 mm (rounded corners, folded) Provenance: Donated by Mrs Constance Kirkcaldie.

Date: ca1931-ca1934

From: Nightingall/Morrell :Albums, negatives, prints and transparencies taken by Jack and Theo Nightingall

By: Nightingall, Theodore Charles, 1914-1986

Reference: PA1-o-1030

Description: A record of the life of a man in his late teens which includes his interest in aircraft, motorcycles, physical culture and body image, sports, and accidents. Two images show flights of Gipsy Moth aircraft over Auckland, and four show Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cross" in flight. One sequence of images records a trip on motorcycles to the West Coast and Nelson with views of mountains, river vallies, towns, and tourist attractions such as glaciers, pancake rocks and gold dredges. Another group shows the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers. Theo and some of his friends were interested in the physical culture of the time which was a combination of body building and gymnastic stunts. As a result there are several pages of men displaying their muscular development, or performing acrobatic balancing stunts on beaches, mountain tops and motorcycles. One group of photographs shows the machinary and workers in a factory, possibly for weaving fabric, and another group relates to the flax fibre industry in which his father was involved in some way after arriving in New Zealand in about 1931. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: ca1931

By: Clayton, Nancy, active 1990s

Reference: PA1-o-798

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1928

Reference: PAColl-6551

Description: Three views of the crowds and dignitaries with Kingsford Smith and his colleague after his successful flight from Australia to New Zealand. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-015036 to 015038 Quantity: 3 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1926 - ca1935

From: Dick, Lilian Elizabeth 1909-1993 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-691

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1928

By: Weekly press (Newspaper)

Reference: Eph-C-AVIATION-1928-01

Description: Souvenir pamphlet commemorating the trans-Tasman flight of Squadron Leader C E Kingsford Smith, containing photographs of the crowds at his plane's arrival at Wigram Aerodrome, Sickburn, Christchurch. The front cover shows Sir Heaton Rhodes speaking, Bishop West-Watson looking at the plane, and other more general photographs. Inside, Kingsford Smith is shown shaking hands with Captain J L Findlay, the officer in charge of Wigram Aerodrome, and a group photo of the aviators Kingsford Smith, Flight-Lieutenant T P Ulm, Mr T H McWilliam (wireless operator) and H A Litchfield (navigator). There are various photographs of the Southern Cross (plane) and a view of Christchurch from the air. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithgraphs on sheet, folded to 420 x 314 mm.

Date: 1933-1934

From: Scrimgeour, P :Albums and photographs relating to Reverend Colin Scrimgeour

Reference: PA1-o-1020

Description: Photographs relating to Charles Kingsford Smith's 1933 or 1934 tours of New Zealand in the Southern Cross Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).