• Title
  Sir Hudson Fysh - photographs from nitrate negatives, ca. 1900-1950
• Call number
  PXA 1063/1-86
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1900-1950
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447028
• Physical Description
  86 Photographs - silver gelatin - 16.5 x 21.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  EARLY QANTAS
  1. Capt. Bert [H.B.] Hussey and first QEA passenger Lady Louis Mountbatten, [on the steps of a De Havilland DH 86A,] 1935
  2. De Havilland DH 50A "Atlanta" G-AUHE, built at Longreach
  3. Arrival of first aerial mail on De Havilland DH 61 Giant Moth "Apollo", pilot P.H. Moody, Brisbane, 23 Apr 1929
  4. Passenger cabin, "Apollo"
  5. Pilots and "Apollo", ca. 1925
  6. Pilot Alexander A. Kennedy, air mail and "Atalanta", Mt Isa
  7. A.A. Kennedy (in plane) and Hudson Fysh (smoking), opening flight, 3 Feb 1922
  8. McGinniss C.A.D. Aerodrome [-?] at Fysh [- -?] Colo [?]
  9. K.V. Anderson's biplane in the desert, photographed by Lester J. Brain from the air
  10-14. Hudson Fysh [and son ?] fly fishing and camp, [late 1940's ?]
  15. Ross & Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy G-EAOU and Capt. H.N. Wrigley's BE 2e, B6183, Darwin, 12 Dec 1919
  16-21. De Havilland DH 50A air ambulance "Victory" G-AUER & VH-UER, also VH-UFW and radio operators in cockpit and on the ground
  22-24. Burketown-Borroloola (incl. crossing the Robinson River), Hudson Fysh's Longreach-Darwin survey, 1919
  25. Lester Brain, Aborigine and "Atalanta", Northern Territory
  26. Prime Minister Stanley Bruce and Mrs Bruce with Fysh, first airmail to New Guinea G-AUER
  27. Two men with De Havilland Puss Moth VH-UPA
  28. First airmail arrives Normanton from Cloncurry (?)
  29. Lester Brain & Butler meet at Charleville, 10 Dec 1934
  30-31. Lt. McGinniss & Hudson Fysh in uniform with the car, Longreach-Darwin survey, 1919
  32-36. Wondercraft (?) and aerial photographs
  37-41. Queensland's first aerial mail Armstrong Whitworth welcomed at Winton, Nov 1922 (first scheduled Qantas mail and passenger flight operated from Charleville to Cloncurry)
  42. Qantas crash, G-AUEB, Longreach, pilot A.W. Vigers, 18 Dec 1923
  43. Qantas crash, G-AUEF, Maxelton, pilot Lester Brain, 25 Jul 1925
  44-45. Fysh and overseer from Wellshot; wild turkey shot from biplane
  46. Fysh and the BE 2e G-AUBF; first cargo of freight in flood time, Charleville, 1922
  47. Ivy M. Leon, first Qantas woman passenger (Cloncurry-Longreach) with Fysh, W. Arthur Baird and the BE 2e
  48. Fysh and early Qantas biplane
  49-50. Armstrong Whitworth G-AUDE sold to Qantas, Aug 1922
  51. Refuelling G-EBC?
  52. Vickers Vulcan, the Flying Pig, G-EBET
  53-56. Qantas crash, G-AUEB, Longreach, pilot A.W. Vigers, 18 Dec 1923
  57. Qantas crash, G-AUEF, Maxelton, pilot Lester Brain, 25 Jul 1925
  58. Pilot in the cockpit of a De Havilland DH 61 Giant Moth
  59. Aero Club office and biplanes, Mascot
  
  IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, INDIA
  60-82. Incl. Hudson Fysh, Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta aircraft "Artemis" G-ABTJ, signal bell, Indian official, Short flying boat G-AETX, Handley Page HP 42 airliner, airports and flying boat pontoons, 1930's
  
  MISCELLANEOUS
  83. Vine covered house, Tasmania (?)
  84. Families and wagons packed for land selection (?)
  85. Outback homestead
  86. Goods train and workmen
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titles devised from nitrate negatives' envelopes
• Name
  Apollo (biplane)
  Artemis (aeroplane)
  Atalanta (biplane)
  Australian Aero Club. New South Wales Section
  Baird, W. Arthur
  Brain, Lester Joseph, 1903-1980
  Bruce, Ethel, Viscountess
  Bruce, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount, 1883-1967
  Fysh, Hudson, Sir, 1895-1974
  Hussey, Bert
  Imperial Airways
  Kennedy, Alexander A.
  Leon, Ivy
  Moody, P. H.
  Mountbatten, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess, 1901-1960
  Qantas Empire Airways
  Victory (biplane)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeronautics
  aircraft
  airmail
  airports
  ambulances
  aviators
  expeditions
  fishing (pastime)
  passengers
  radio operators
  radio transmitters
  seaplanes
  
• Place
  Mascot (N.S.W.)
  Northern Territory
  Queensland
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE7561105

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