Summary

Colour photograph of the Qantas exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980.

This is one of 959 photographs (or images) of the Exhibition Building collated by the Exhibition Trustees as a 10 volume pictorial history of the Exhibition Building spanning the years 1880 to 1985. The pictorial history was instigated by the centenary of the Exhibition Building in 1980 and forms part of a larger Royal Exhibition Building collection of documents, photographs, objects and research files.

Description of Content

Colour photograph of the Qantas exhibit at the Melbourne International Centenary Exhibition held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, between 23 September and 5 October 1980. Three men are posing for the camera at the left of image, standing in front of an large Rolls Royce aero engine, a man and a woman sit in a mock interior of Qantas aircraft, while two men stand in the middleground at the right of image. A replica Avro 504K biplane in the original colour scheme of the Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service (Qantas) is suspended from the ceiling above the exhibit.

Physical Description

A colour photographic print on a page of a photograph album. There is a printed caption below the photograph.

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