• Title
  Hood Collection part II, Box 021, nos. 033-042 : Queen of the Air pageant, Mascot
• Call number
  ON 204/Box 21/nos. 33-42
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  4 June 1930
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  395147
• Physical Description
  10 negatives - glass - 8 x 11 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Florence Mary Terry (Mrs John Edgar Terry, known to her friends as Bobbie, was the Australian owner of VH-ULX, a Dutch Koolhoven FK41. Terry gained her B pilot's licence in mid-1931. She lived at Kinneil Court, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney and her occupation was 'home duties'. Her husband, a grazier, died in 1926 (Curator of Photographs, December 2007).
• Scope and Content
  33-34. Women aviators, left to right: Evelyn Follett, Bobbie Terry, Margaret Skelton, Amy Johnson, Alice Upfold, Freda Deaton, Phyllis Arnott, Margaret Riordan
  35. Freda Deaton and Bobbie Terry
  36. ANA ground crew holds an Avro trainer while a woman dressed in swimsuit with flowing silk cape approaches the aeroplane
  37-42. Crowds watch aeroplanes flying in the pageant (including aeroplanes VH-UIH, VH-ULQ)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Women aviators, left to right: Evelyn Follett, Bobbie Terry, Margaret Skelton, Amy Johnson, Alice Upfold, Freda Deaton, Phyllis Arnott, Margaret Riordan (ON 204/Box 21/no. 33) published in Flypast: a record of aviation in Australia by Neville Parnell and Trevor Boughton, AGPS, Canberra, 1988, p. 63 (Q629.1300994/2)
• Description source
  
  Titles, dates and contents lists in this series based on the Hood register with additional notes by Ted Hood
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original Hood box unnumbered (quarter plate)
• Name
  Arnott, Phyllis
  Deaton, Freda
  Follett, Evelyn M.
  Johnson, Amy, 1903-1941
  Queen of the Air Pageant (1930)
  Riordan, Margaret
  Skelton, Margaret
  Terry, Bobbie
  Upfold, Alice
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  Spectators.
  
• Topic
  air shows
  airfields
  aviators
  biplanes
  groups (people)
  theatrical costumes
  
• Place
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20608638

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