Aerial reconnaissance
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File — DCPP/THO/2
Copies of family photographs including Hugh Hamshaw Thomas, 1913 - 1954
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/2
Scope and Contents
Includes: 1) British Association Botany Section, Birmingham, 1913. Large formal group of unidentified men and women gathered on the steps, Hugh Hamshaw Thomas under lamp, back right (Copyright Whittock and Son?); 2) Hugh Hamshaw Thomas in military uniform (WW1), photographer illegible; mounted photograph of Hugh Hamshaw Thomas with aerial (glass plate) camera, standing beside a plane, WW1; two unidentified men standing in front of a (?WW1) aeroplane; formal group photograph, presumably of...
Dates:
1913 - 1954
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Letter to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts re lectures on aerial photography, 1919-05-17
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/THO/1/1
Scope and Contents
Letter written from the Air Ministry, Strand, explaining that Major Laws (invited by the RSA to lecture on aerial photography) is too busy and has asked him to undertake the lectures as he gave something similar in India last winter. His proposed lecture would be on 'Aerial Photograph and its application in War and Peace', dealing with his area of expertise, the use of the aeroplane camera in the survey and exploration of unmapped countries. His experience as RAF photographic officer in the...
Dates:
1919-05-17
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