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Image: StateLibQld 2 117180 Crowd scenes at Brisbane and New Zealand, to greet Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane Southern Cross, 1928

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Description: Crowd scenes at Brisbane and New Zealand, to greet Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane Southern Cross, 1928. Two photographs of the Fokker F.VII, Southern Cross. Top photograph shows Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross in the centre of a huge crowd when he landed at Brisbane after flying from San Francisco. The lower photograph shows only the wings of Southern Cross visible in the crowd at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Title: StateLibQld 2 117180 Crowd scenes at Brisbane and New Zealand, to greet Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane Southern Cross, 1928
Credit: The Queenslander, 30 October 1930, p. 29
Author: Contributor(s): The Queenslander
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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