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Christmas parcel : Private J M Filcock, 2/9 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular tin (empty) wrapped in calico and addressed in black ink: 'A. SOLDIERS PARCEL/ MISS MARGARET FILCOCK/ 14 JAMES STREET/ BALLARAT/ VICTORIA/ AUSTRALIA/ FROM/ PTE J FILCOCK/ 2/9 FIELD AMB/ A....REL/13591
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Cream artificial silk wedding dress
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small size wedding dress made from cream artificial silk lining fabric. Full length dress has a short train, sweetheart neckline, ruched centre front bodice, and ruched lower back. Three quarter sleev...REL/18213.001
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Dark blue felt hat : Adult Guider, Girl Guides, Australia
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dark blue fur felt broad brimmed hat with high flat crown and a dark blue grosgrian band with pleated cockade on the proper left side. Pinned to the base of the cockade is a red and green enamelled br...REL/08843
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Do your bit on the Food Front
Art
Maker: Unknown Department of Commerce and Agriculture
Australian Second World War poster depicting a woman wearing a headscarf, overalls and gloves. She poses smiling while she rests her right foot on a pitch fork. The poster declares 'Do your bit on th...ARTV02452
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Female munition worker's beret
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Female munition worker's unlined wool worsted beret. The crown is loosely pleated into the band. The band forms a casing through which is threaded a green worsted tape for adjustment of fit.REL/17172
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Female munition worker's packing gloves
Heraldry
Pair of light tan leather gloves with gauntlet cuffs and dark leather palms. Each cuff is stamped 'M [broad arrow symbol] F'. One glove is marked in pencil 'Female Shell Packer'.RELAWM30614
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Female munition worker's snood cap
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dark blue large weave cotton net snood with elastic rear casing and a ribbed dark blue cotton peak and band. The band is lined with green artificial silk.RELAWM30613
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Fund raising AIF soldier doll 'Private Bill Redgum'
Heraldry
Maker: Hallam, Muriel
Soft-bodied AIF soldier doll mounted on a square wooden stand. The doll's face is made from a cotton lisle stocking with features painted onto it. It has dark brown wool carpet-work hair. The doll has...REL/18631
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Hat : Miss M Mulvey, Superintendent, National Emergency Services
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Ladies dark blue, narrow brimmed fur felt hat, with a dark blue grosgrain band finished with a flat bow on the proper right. Attached to the centre front band is the white metal and red enamel badge o...RELAWM20422.003
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Hat : National Paper Salvage Collection Committee, Brisbane
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Women's broad brimmed sky blue cotton cesarine summer hat, with a top-stitched self fabric band. The brim and top of the crown are stiffened with interfacing and rows of top stitching. The sides of th...RELAWM20267.002
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Hat : Womens All Services Canteen
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Women's All Services Canteen (WASC) olive green fur felt hat with 'V' shaped bash at centre front and a khaki cotton grosgrain band with flat bow at the proper right side.REL/07959.004
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Morning after night shift
Art
Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
It's the morning after the night shift for workers from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, the artist applied for a job at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory,...ART23953
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Munitions Supply Transport Driver, Miss Ruth Fowler
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Portrait of Miss Ruth Fowler, a Munitions Supply Transport Driver attached to the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribynong. Miss Fowler is portrayed wearing her full driver's uniform, and a vehicle...ART22340
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No 1 projectile shop (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
As the Second World War escalated, and men began to enlist, women took their place in the factories. Women became the dominant workforce in the munitions factories at Maribyrnong. They wore overalls...ART22141
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Nursing sister
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray F J Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
A nursing sister crouched at the head of a soldier laid out on a stretcher, with her hands on the man's head. Commissioned some time after the war, this work was a belated recognition of the important...ART27562
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Painting tins to hold trench mortar shells (Mrs Shugg)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
A portrait of Mrs Joy Shugg painting tins to hold mortar shells in the High Explosives Section of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. The artist noted that Mrs Shugg painted 100 tins per...ART23702
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Potential absentee
Art
Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Pictured left is a woman with a crying baby while the right panel features a young woman singing and playing the guitar. Inbetween is a night shift worker unable to sleep, her nightmare of machinery c...ART28166
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Shoes : Women's Danger Building Suit, Australian munitions workers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of women's brown leather lace-up shoes with 5 pairs of plain punched eyelets (not metal rimmed), brown cotton laces with celluloid aglets, and flat stacked heels held in place with wooden pegs. T...RELAWM30606.005
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Sister Ellen Savage
Art
Maker: Hanke, Henry
Australian Army Nursing Service; NFX76584 Sister Ellen Savage, GM, AANS. Sister Ellen Savage was the only nurse to survive the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur when it was torpedoed by the Japanes...ART22196
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Smoko time with the AWLA
Art
Maker: Taylor, Grace
Women from the Australian Women's Land Army enjoy a tea break, seated on dry grass in rural Queensland in the height of summer. A makeshift tent provides relief from the harsh summer sun, the bleached...ART29758