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Abdul again
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This is the original poster 'Abdul again', for an Australian show produced in 1942 at the non labour prisoner of war camp, Fort 15, Stalag 20A. Created with a strong graphic design, including decorat...ART29544
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Allied servicemen around a Merry-goround in a northern town, 1944
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Maker: Crooke, Ray
Depicts a group of service men and women standing around a Merry-go-round at night.ART28605
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Anjo Palace
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Maker: Flett, James
Talkie show of 14th Airfield Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Lightening, Douglas and Liberator aircraft taking off at nearby Pitoe airstrip added to the dramatic effect, Morotai, Ha...ART26655
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Anzac antics
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This is the original poster 'Anzac Antics' for an Australian show produced in 1942. Fort 15, Stalag 20A was a Non Labour (Nicht Arbeit) camp. As the artist later recalled, "Apart from the incessant ba...ART29545
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A sentimental song
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch showing a group of members of 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion enjoying a singsong accompanied by a ukulele.ART23182
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Backstage
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Two silhouetted figures working in the darkened backstage area of the 4th Australian Division concert party's base theatre at Rocky Creek Convalescent Depot, Atherton, Queensland. Housed in an 'igloo'...ART23748
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Battered on active service
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
From Norman Wright's boatyard at Bulimba, one looks across the river to Bowen Hill's crowned by a large dance hall and band rotunda. An antiquated side wheeler, 'The Hetherington,' now a steam driven ...ART25588
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Between tent rows
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A characteristic scene in local camps. Australian tents are supported by rough posts to which cross pieces have been tied. The tents are attached to this frame work instead of to pegs in the ground, a...ART21446
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Brisbane, September 1944; verso: Not titled [Boots]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Two airmen, one in half-profile, the other with his back turned, converse; in the background are soldiers standing at a stall. Verso: rough sketches of booted feet.ART94334.012
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Camp concert
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a view of concert in a camp, audience sitting beneath a 'rain' tree, Townsville, Queensland.ART28373.002
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Dance in the Sisters' mess
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Army officers and uniformed nurses dancing in the Sisters' mess tent at Finschhafen, New Guinea. The tent is decorated with flowers and ferns, and a man is playing a piano at left.ART23712
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D3, Bo.36, Changi Prison
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Maker: Greig, Allister
Allister Greig was a South Australian-born commercial artist who served in the first AIF and was a civilian internee in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. He was an amateur magician and was caught by prison...ART26749
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drawing for dinkus for A matter of prestige
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Pictured is the head and shoulders of a beautiful young woman wearing evening dress with earrings and several necklaces. She is behind and partially obscured by an arrangement of a large foaming drink...ARTI00791
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Drawing for headpiece for 'Picnic races- North Australia' in 'Jungle Warfare' 1944
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A group of soldiers cheering on a race between three Aboriginal jockeys on horseback.ARTI00024.D
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Erecting mobile stage
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the building of 4 Australian Division Concert Party's stage. The framework of girders with their truck as a base, when completed is covered with a green canvas cover that, pegged out ...ART26067
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Erecting mobile stage
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the building of 4 Australian Division Concert Party's stage. The framework of girders with their truck as a base, when completed is covered with a green canvas cover that, pegged out ...ART26066
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Girls in entertainment group
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Maker: Baird, John
Three portraits of female entertainers from Melbourne, who were in Darwin as part of an entertainment group.ART27930
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Gracie Fields concert
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A sketch of the audience at a concert at which Gracie Fields, a celebrated London variety artist, appeared. Miss Fields was touring the battle areas in the South West Pacific with other artists entert...ART23205
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Holes from YMCA hut; Verso: Not titled [Soldier studies]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Sketches of soldiers playing billiards in the YMCA hut at Lae base. Verso: rough outline sketches of soldiers; two standing, one rear view of a seated soldier wearing his slouch hat.ART94333.005
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Is suicide justifiable?
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This is the original poster for 'Is suicide justifiable?' an Australian show produced in 1942 at the the non labour camp, Fort 15, Stalag 20A. The poster shows an overweight man in a shirt and tie wi...ART29546
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Jeep train for Beaufort
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his last assignment as war correspondent Wep was sent to Borneo for two months. Here Jeeps were used in place of broken down steam engines to pull up to three cars. This sketch shows one with a gro...ART29344
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Mock trial
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This is the original poster for 'Mock Trial', an Australian show produced in 1942 at the non labour camp, Fort 15, Stalag 20A. It shows a man with very red cheeks and thick eyebrows dressed as a jud...ART29572
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Music in Moresby by the Rambling Rogues of Rhythm
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Maker: Unknown
Australian and American soldiers are depicted enjoying a concert at which the 'Rambling Rogues of Rhythm' are performing in Port Moresby, New Guinea. All of the soldiers are interacting with one anoth...ART93404
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NGF theatre, Lae; Verso: Not titled [Soldier studies]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Picture night at the New Guinea Forces outside "theatre" at Lae base, palm trees surround the audience of soldiers. Verso: rough outline sketches of soldiers in various poses; some are depicted holdin...ART94333.006
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Not titled: [Soldiers relaxing on deck]; verso: Concert on the [Vessel name censored]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Sketches made on board a transport vessel on route to New Guinea. Two soldiers relax on deck, one is shirtless and lies prone on his back while the other sits propped up on one arm, a leg tucked under...ART94334.019
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Picture night; Verso: Not titled [Soldiers in the mess at night]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Troops assemble for picture night at Lae base. Verso: three servicmen sit in what is likely to be the mess; the light overhead suggests it's night.ART94333.002
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Picture night; Writing home; Verso: Not titled [Soldier studies]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Two sketches on sheet: top sketch depicts picture night, when the film was projected from the back of a truck; lower sketches feature two drawings of a soldier sitting at a table writing, one a rear v...ART94333.004
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Sketch for "Picture in the rain"
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A rough pen, ink and wash sketch for the large painting, 'Moresby picture show'. This sketch shows the rear view of unidentified Australian soldiers wearing ponchos watching a film. In the top left ...ART26592
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The back number
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting a Japanese man speaking into a radio microphone presenting 'amateur hour', with a boyish Goebbels preparing to take the stage.ART92368
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The bandstand, Artie Shaw in Townsville
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Maker: Atkinson, Yvonne
Civilians and servicemen gathered around the bandstand in a park listening to Artie Shaw's jazz band in Townsville, Queensland.ART28518
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Three couples dancing
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Maker: Unknown
Three couples attend a dance, together with other American servicemen and Australian women. While US troops were stationed in Brisbane, the American Red Cross sponsored Saturday night dances at the To...ART29018
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Two couples relaxing at table
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Maker: Unknown
Two American naval recruits relax in a bar with two Australian women. It is probably set in Brisbane, where the US Navy had a large naval base during the Second World War. The US forces had "PX" clubs...ART29020
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Waiting in the wings; verso: lower torso and legs of a dancer in pink
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Maker: Quinn, Arthur
One of the ballerinas of the Whizzbangs waiting to go on stage to entertain the troops at a migrants' camp at Bonegilla, Victoria, during the Second World War. Verso: The lower torso and legs (one out...ART92631
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Wheel of fortune; verso: Not titled [Sleeping soldier]
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Maker: Warren, Guy
A packed Wheel of Fortune stall at a fairground, the crowd being mostly airmen and soldiers with an officer talking with a woman turned away from the action. Verso: rough pencil sketch of sleeping sol...ART94334.013
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YMCA Darwin
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Maker: Baird, John
Gunner Alan Leslie Walker (NX67342), Cryptographer William Stuart Thomson (26388), Able seaman Cyril Samuel Healey (PA/V84), Driver E. Pratt and Signaller Neville Hugh Marshall (S6356) are depicted st...ART27880