Qantas: Great Past, Greater Future
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Rhys Williams, 'Out of a Great Past a Greater Future.', offset lithograph on paper, 100.5 x 66 cm overall. Provenance: Australian War Memorial, Canberra (deaccession). Other Notes: An advertising poster for Qantas Empire Airways designed by leading Australian commercial artist Rhys Williams c.1938. The poster depicts a plane set against a globe, with Australia clearly visible at the bottom. The poster emphasises Qantas's past, arguing 'out of a great past a greater future.'
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