[Outsize sundry newspaper clippings on Jean Batten]

Object detail

Accession number

MSS-0192-1.48

Description

Two newspaper advertisements and an article.
1. Advertisement for Castrol XXL fuel endorsed by Jean Batten (in the Illustrated London News, 9 June, 1934).
2. Advertisement for Player's Airman tobacco endorsed by Jean Batten (in the Evening Post, 25 October, 1937).
3. Article "The woman within the flying suit" subtitled "Jean Batten may owe her flair to pioneer aviator Louis Blériot" (in Auckland edition of The Weekly News, 14 October, 1936). Full page feature with photographs.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

3 leaves: illustrations ; 33 x 25 cm-46 x 30 cm

Record level

Series

Collection

Jean Batten manuscript and photograph collection

Credit line

1934-1937. [Outsize sundry newspaper clippings on Jean Batten], MSS-0192-1.48. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Clipping Clipping, Newspaper Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Subject: all levels

Batten, Jean Gardner, 1909-1982 New Zealand Aviation Castrol (Firm) Advertising Tobacco <C> Endorsements in advertising

Collection type

Ephemera and manuscripts Walsh Memorial Library

Related objects

Name/Title: [Jean Batten with a tank of Castrol XXL fuel] Maker: Unknown Production date: 1934? Accession number: PHO-0192-1.32 See full details

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