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To Australia By Air. Kingsford-Smith And His Companions Over Suva [“The Southern Cross”, Fiji]

1928. Colour process lithograph, signed “Frank Lemon” in image lower right, 42.5 x 37.8cm. Slight foxing, crazing, repaired perforations to image centre. Linen-backed.

Text continues “Copyright 1928. Wright Aeronautical Corporation.” Held in NLA.

In 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith and his co-pilot Charles Ulm arrived in the United States and purchased a Fokker F.VII/3m monoplane, which they named the Southern Cross, from Australian polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. In the same year they made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. This event was one of a series of aviation images by Frank Lemon, commissioned by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation of Paterson, New Jersey (1919-1929), which was originally established by the Wright brothers. Ref: Wiki.

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Item #CL182-29

Price (AUD): $1,250.00  other currencies