Nancy Bird Walton photographs, negatives and papers, 1933-1983

PXA 1604
ON 496

fonds

1933-1983

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

909855

217 photographs (black & white and colour) - 25.5 x 30.4 cm and smaller
22 negatives - 8 x 10.5 cm and smaller

Nancy Bird Walton (1915-2009), aviator, was born in Sydney. In 1933, at the age of 17, she became the youngest Australian woman to gain a pilot's licence. One year later she obtained her commercial licence. In 1937-1938 she operated a charter service in Queensland followed by a two year world tour studying civil aviation. She won the Ladies' Trophy in the South Australian Centenary Air Race from Brisbane to Adelaide in 1936 and came fifth in the American All Women's Transcontinental Air Race in 1958.

PXA 1604
"Album 1 / Nancy Bird 1933 / 1933-1935 Gypsy Moth".
"Album 2 / 1935-1938 / Leopard Moth". Includes typescript poem 'For Nancy Bird' by Mary Gilmore and photograph of Douglas Bader.
"Album 3 /1940 / War Years / W.A.T.C."
"Album 4 / 1958-1977 / Powder Puff Derby / Ansett Air Race / Perth -Sydney / Nancy Bird Walton / Air Races".
"Album 5 / Events in Aviation / Germany & Australia /99 Convention / Canberra / Lady Kingsford-Smith".
"Album 6 / Ninety-Nine 50th 1979 / Albany & / Forrest Friendship".
"Album 6B / Ballooning / Albany 1979".

Loose photographs, 1939-1958. Nancy Bird Walton in Germany, Sweden, Auckland, Samoa, Fiji. Includes photographs from "Born to Fly" by Nancy Bird Walton.

"1983 Fifty Years / (Nancy Bird's first flying licence)". Guest Book, letters and telegrams.
Article by Tom Lyle on his aunt Isobel Nancy Lyle, aviatrix (typescript).

ON 496
Negatives of some of the photographs in albums.

Copyright restrictions may apply: photographs created before 1955 are out of copyright; photographs created after 1955 are in copyright.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and copyright holders

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5777 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013

Photographs removed from the self-adhesive albums and albums destroyed September 1989