Leo Lemuel White

[3] In 1945 Whites Aviation Limited was started in Auckland, publishing books and magazines,[3] including several editions of an air directory,[4] and also being a travel agent,[5] from at least 1949[6] to 1955.

[7] During the 1950s Whites Aviation had a team of about 8 artists,[8] who worked on producing popular hand-coloured photographs[9][10] using oil paints.

[11] In 2007 the Alexander Turnbull Library purchased the Whites Aviation collection—as well as the copyright to the images—and has 79,549 of its items on its website.

[13] On 5 June 1934 he married Irene Elizabeth Blakey at the Pitt Street Methodist Church, Auckland.

He went to Franz Josef, hoping to ease his condition, but died at Mount Eden on 29 December 1967, survived by his wife and two children.