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Gervais Purcell on assignment with Ansett Airways c1951–1959

by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Taken on assignment for Ansett Airways, these photographs by Gervais Purcell from the brief and glamorous years of the Australian flying boats are doubly significant because they mark the advent of colour photography.

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View of Mount Gower and Mount Lidgbird on Lord Howe Island
View across the lagoon at Lord Howe Island
Two views of landscape at Lord Howe Island
Passengers inside the cabin of a flying boat
Passengers inside the cabin of a flying boat
Inside the cockpit of a flying boat
Ansett Airways' flying boat Beachcomber on Sydney Harbour
A crowd of people watching a flying boat land at Lord Howe Island
The wing of a flying boat at Lord Howe Island
A view of the landscape at Lord Howe Island