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Mike-four-shot-over
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In an Army Co-operation lecture room, Royal Australian Air Force personnel undergo instructions in artillery reconnaissance on a miniature range. Communications between air-crew and artillery posts ar...ART21387
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Miner, Mount Isa (Jack Thorburn)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Mr Jack Thorburn, New Zealand born, has been a miner all his life. Underground was the only world he knew and liked best. As Underground Superintendent, Mount Isa Mines he spent most of his time below...ART25547
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Mixed nationalities on Canberra airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a Javanese airman, Corporal Djadi, and Sergeant Major Weertman from Zwolle, a member of the Dutch air force, checking over and servicing an American Curtiss p-40 Kittyhawk aeroplane at the RAA...ART21386
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Northward bound troop train pauses at Rockhampton for lunch at the station and a beer or two at the Terminus Hotel
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Northbound troop train pauses at Rockhampton for lunch at the station and a beer or two at the Terminus Hotel. This elegant station was built in England and shipped to Queensland during the latter par...ART25563
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On the assembly floor
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Drawn on the assembly floor of the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshop, showing high precision drilling machines and racks of newly turned anti-aircraft gun barrels. The artist was given a tour by the Gene...ART23063
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Outfitting vessels at Tulloch's
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Two ships are tied together at the outfitting berth and the work proceeds on the 'internals', superstructure and the engine room. Engineer workers, electricians, plumbers, joiners, crane drivers, pain...ART21368
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Posted 2 A.C.Ws Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts two women in uniform caps and overcoats seated on Bench, one dejectedly with chin in hand.ART28143
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Power from Barron Falls
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hydro electric power generated at the foot of the Barron Falls supplies light and energy to many North Queensland towns; a train struggles up the gorge with troops on its way to the tablelands.ART25619
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Pre-dawn muster, Garbutt airfield, Townsville
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
All ranks of Australian and American troops bound for overseas and active service, wait outside the old Air Transport shed to listen for their names to be called over the loud speaker by an American c...ART25598
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Prisms for guns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Prisms for guns a drawing from the series 'Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra'. Prisms were used for binoculars and periscopes. Stromlo's Optical Lens Department produced the pr...ART21393
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RAAF ground crew overhauling a Mariner's engines on improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
RAAF ground crew working on engines of Martin Mariner flying boat on an improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns.ART25631
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Ryan's Shipyard, Brown's Creek, Taree
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In a rural setting of rich dairy lands, some distance for the sea, Ryan's builds his 45' wooden tugboats for the Australian Navy, Taree, New South Wales.ART25581
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Shell-tapering machine
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
First subject chosen by the artist during his visit to the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshops. 'On the following day I chose the big electric drop-hammer for my first drawing. Lumps of red-hot steel were...ART23064
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Shipbuilding along Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Navy ships and a freighter tied up at the outfitting berth of Evan Deakin's Shipbuilding yard in Brisbane. Small American landing barges ride on the mud. The storey Bridge and the houses of Bowen Te...ART25590
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Skeleton of a 'Fairmile'
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Prefabricated bulkheads and partially built hull of Fairmile motor torpedo boat at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde (to be used by RAAF for air-sea rescue) In the background is the ribbed hull of a Fairm...ART21363
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Sketch - Canberra Airfield arrival of V.I.P's
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a group of figures standing beside wheel of plane with huge wing rearing above their heads across the page, a car to the right.ART28149
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Smoko
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A group of A.C.1 trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Canberra Technical College cluster around the coke stove between classes to discuss their notes and other matters. Such groups are re...ART21389
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Stern of liberty ship in floating dock, Newcastle
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
'Liberty' ships; stern view of 'Liberty' ship in floating dockART25575
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1st Lieutenant W. F. A Winckel N. E.I
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
When a Japanese submarine was seen off the N.S.W coast early in 1942, Winckel hunted it down, bombed and sank it - the first enemy submarines to be destroyed by aerial attack in Australian waters. Win...ART21385
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Stripping kauri plywood with a rotary lathe, Kennedy Mill
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts men stripping kauri plywood with a rotary lathe at the Kennedy Mill, North Queensland.ART25607
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Thanksgiving service in celebration of Victory in Europe held on the steps of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 9 May 1945
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
On the steps of the Australian War Memorial under an Autumn sky a thanksgiving service in celebration of the Victory in Europe is held. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester atten...ART25669
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The chaff cutters, Gunnawarra Station, North Queensland
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of unidentified men cutting chaff, an ancient method of cutting chaff at "Gunnawarra," a large cattle station near Mount Garnett, North Queensland.ART25608
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The Indispensible Mr Malichar
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Mr. Malichar, working in a laboratory at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo. The artist, R. Emerson Curtis noted of this work: "Born in Vienna, Mr. Malichar came to Australi...ART21396
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The mill, Mt Isa
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The sun sears, the winds scorch; there is a sharp geometric pattern in a landscape of iron buildings, a mammoth water tank, the long legs of a haulage shaft, a great smoke stack and a road sliced out ...ART25549
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The Observatory, Mount Stromlo
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Canberra. The Observatory stands on the crest of a hill on the edge of a large belt of pine, planted under a reforestation scheme, in the heart of the Federal Territory...ART21392
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The pay line, RAAF Airfield, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a line of men and women queued in front of window in hangar. Water colour used in all blue tones.ART28138
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"The rabbeter"
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Shipwright at work on the stern of an 85' wooden cargo vessel being built at Hayes and Sons boat building yard at Careening Cove, around Milson's Point, North Sydney, N.S.W. The finished shape of th...ART21371
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These three locomotives also served
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A night scene in the Roundhouse at Rockhampton Railway Yards. The engine in the foreground is a U.S.A Lend Lease locomotive, a small number of which were shipped from America during the war. The two...ART25557
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Timber cutter's camp Kirrima Range Highway
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The timber industry in Queensland forests were working at top pressure thoughout the war to satiate the demands for timber by the armed forces.ART25600
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Tractors snigging
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Tractors snigging logs onto the ' bull ring' in the Tinaroo Ranges, North Queensland. Tractors are used to haul out the log from where it fell to a cleared are for loading onto the jinkers which trans...ART25604
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Troop train crossing Herbert River Bridge during floods
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This somewhat perilous crossing was made after the bridge had been tested and the flood waters were receding.ART25556
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Tulloch's ship yard
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This shows the stern of a newly completed ship. A feature if the ships is a pair of 'goal post' mast serving as lifting gear. Ships are mounted on bogeys on a track. Down this shipway they are launche...ART21369
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Vincent Hall, chief engineer of Queensland railways during war
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Vincent Hall, Chief Engineer Queensland Railways, Queensland.ART25559
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War Memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts the exterior of the Australian War Memorial, viewed from the front steps, with a number of people entering the Memorial. Robert Emerson Curtis (1899 - 1996) was born in Croydon, England and h...ART29723
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Weeding new cane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Queenslander sugar farmer cultivating his young crop of cane, North Queensland.ART25659
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Winter storms over Canberra airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Netherlands East Indies Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force personnel employed on servicing a squadron of Mitchell bombers of the Dutch Air Force, make for shelter at the end of the day.ART21384
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Work and talk around the hatch
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Men working and talking around the hatch. Curtis wrote of this image that: For recording exactly what I saw and with strict impartiality I was accused by the boilermakers afterwards of "undermining" t...ART21370
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Ygosse's boat yard, Toowong, Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Perhaps because the owner of this yard was a Dutchman, most of his wartime output was turned over to the Dutch Army in the Pacific. Almost completely screened by luxuriant vegatation, this was typical...ART25584
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Young dairy farmer, Monto (Norman Greenup)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Norman Brodie Greenup, was drawn after he had returned to the land following services in North Africa, Malta and England as a Royal Australian Air Force volunteer with the Roy...ART25612