commissioned

Charles Pickering was commissioned to photograph public works for the government architect James Barnet in 1870. The photographs themselves were intended for display at the London Exhibition of 1873; Pickering was previously engaged as the official photographer to the Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870. Photographers such as Charles Nettleton and the firm of Cox & Luckin were given similiar commissions in Melbourne as photography played an increasingly important role in the work of government departments. (The collection is on the State Libray of N.S.W. database. This database has a facility to view photographs in a high quality resolution which is really the best way to view the photographs - because of size constraints I will post a link to the high resolution version beneath each photograph).

Willa Beatrice Brown (1906-1992) was also the first African-American woman to hold a commercial pilot's license in the US (Bessie Coleman got her license in 1921, that was in France): www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7288758 She ran for Congress in 1946, 1948, and 1950, and taught aeronautics at a high school until she retired in the 1970s. avstop.com/history/blackwomenpilot/willabrown.htm