More Info →"By Air for the First Time" Early example of an Airmail Letter

Description

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 September 1958: "One of the first 10 letters to cross the Tasman Sea by-air. It was carried in the Southern Cross from Sydney to Christchurch by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith 30 years ago today."

Identification

Object type

Image

Identifier

2017-20

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

September 11, 1958

Digitisation ID

2017N_2017-20_014896

Format

B&W negative

Held In

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