• Title
  Hood Collection part II, Box 067, nos. 083-090; Box 068, nos. 001-011 : Moncrieff and Hood Ryan B.1 'Aotearoa'; Kingsford-Smith, 'Miss Southern Cross' and 'Anzac', later renamed 'Lady Southern Cross'
• Call number
  ON 204/Box 67/nos. 83-90
  ON 204/Box 68/nos. 1-11
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  approximately 10 January 1928-20 September 1934
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  402268
• Physical Description
  19 negatives - glass - 10 x 13 cm or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  BOX 67
  
  83. Moncrieff and Hood's Ryan B.1 refuelled by Plume tanker before their fatal attempt on the Tasman crossing, 10 January 1928
  84-87. Charles Kingsford-Smith arrives Mascot in Miss Southern Cross, Percival Gull, UK reg. no. G-ACJV (later VH-CKS), and is driven through the crowd whom he addresses by microphone, Mascot, October 1933
  88-90. Charles Kingsford-Smith arrives on the SS Mariposa with his Lockheed Altair aeroplane Anzac, 16 July 1934
  
  
  BOX 68
  
  1-5. After controversy over the name Anzac, it was covered in paper for the unloading of the Altair onto a barge and then landed at Anderson Park (note ferry Kanimbla and Voco barge), 17 July 1934
  6-8. Still unnamed Altair at Anderson Park with crowd
  9-11. Charles Kingsford-Smith returns in Altair, renamed Lady Southern Cross, reg. no. VH-USB, from Brisbane, 20 September 1934
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• 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 nos. 82 (quarter plate), 219 and unnumbered (4 x 5 in.)
• Name
  Anzac (aeroplane)
  Aotearoa (aeroplane)
  Kingsford-Smith, Charles, Sir, 1897-1935
  Lady Southern Cross (aeroplane)
  Mariposa (ocean liner)
  Miss Southern Cross (aeroplane)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  airfields
  aviators
  decks (ships)
  historic events
  Lockheed Altair (aeroplanes)
  microphones
  oil tankers (road vehicles)
  Percival Gull (aeroplanes)
  Ryan B.1 Brougham (aeroplanes)
  trucks
  
• Place
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20812084

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