Summary
Part of the Biggest Family Album collection of images comprising approximately 10,000 negatives documenting life in rural and regional Victoria dating from the 1890s to the 1940s.
This photograph is from a set of 81 images mainly depicting life in and around Mildura in the 1920s and 1930s. The donor's ancestors migrated from Germany and settled in Mildura in 1880s. Many of the photographs were taken by August Müller, the donor's great-grandfather. Amongst the images taken by Müller is a collection of photographs of early Mildura, which he sent back to Germany to be printed and made into postcards, which he then sold in his general store [see MM 5274] in Mildura.
This image shows the Southern Cross, a Fokker trimotor monoplane, which was flown by Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith.
Description of Content
The 'Southern Cross' at Mildura. There are two other aeroplanes in view. To the right of the'Southern Cross' is a Percival Gull.
Physical Description
35mm photographic negative on cellulose acetate substrate.
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Copied from Donnie Byrne, 07 Dec 1987
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Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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