On the wings of the morning breeze, 1911 / by William Kimbel

PXD 661/5

series

ca. 1911

Graphic Materials, Photographs

21735

Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - image 31 x 26.5 cm., on mount 48 x 40 cm.

This photoprint was reproduced in the Daily Telegraph, 28th April 1911. It purports to show aviator Joseph Hammond on his first flight over Sydney, ten days previously. It shows Hammond and his Briston Box-kyte on that day but careful examination of the photograph shows it to be a composite of two negatives. The photographer was William Kimbel. -- Reference: Fixed in time : Australian photographs 1845 to 1984, State Library of New South Wales, 14 November 1984 - 26 May 1985. Sydney : The Library, 1984. Location number: Q770.740994/1 Mitchell Library
Transfer from the Manuscripts Section (Papers of George Augustus Taylor). Location number: ML MSS 2539 Mitchell Library