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Digital Photograph - Man & Woman Boarding Oxley Plane to Tasmania, Essendon Airport, 1948
Reg. No: MM 110905
- Acquisition Information:
- Copied from Mrs Patricia Morgan, 2006
| Discipline: | History |
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| Themes this item is part of: | Migration Collection, Melbourne's Biggest Family Album Collection |
| Primary Classification: | AIR TRANSPORT |
| Secondary Classification: | Air Travel |
| Tertiary Classification: | passengers |
| People Depicted: | Sonnewald, Patricia; Sonnewald, Heinrick |
| Organisations Depicted: | Oxley Airlines; Essendon Airport |
| Format: | Digital Still Image: Black and White |
| Description Of Content: | Man in suit and woman in dress and jacket, standing on the stair of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, ready to board. This photograph shows Patricia and Henrick Von Sonnewald about to board a plane to Tasmania from Essendon Airport, 1948. His widow Patricia remembers: 'Henrick had fled Germany before World War II, dismayed by the Nazi movement. He arrived in Australia to represent his uncle's precision machine factory on the eve of World War II and was promptly interned at Tatura for the next five years. By the time of this photograph, Henrick had built an Australia wide business, a year after his release from Tatura. He had a tie manufacturing business, and he and Patricia would travel all around Australia to different department stores. He had come out of Tatura very poor, as all of his goods had been confiscated. But he noticed that there were very few good ties available in Australia. He was very fashion conscious and decided to start his own business.' The airline they were travelling on, Oxley Airlines, later became Trans Australia Airlines. This photograph was taken by an unknown friend with Henrick's camera. |
| Place Depicted: | Essendon, Victoria, Australia |
| Photographer: | Unknown Relationship of Photographer to Contributor: unknown friend |
| Date Depicted: | 1948 Source of Date of Original Photograph Notes: contributor's memory |
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