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Aircraftman 1 Kenneth Brown, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts half figure portrait of man facing left, holding something in hands.ART28134
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Aircraftwoman M Gillam, Meteorological Office, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Aircraftwoman 93723 Margaret Gillam, Royal Australian Air Force, in profile facing left, wearing uniform overcoat, scarf and beret, Canberra.ART28145
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Army command boat in building
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Army command boat under construction at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde. All the craft are of timber construction and range from Fairmile motor launches to fast supply boats and search and rescue launch...ART21361
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Army supply boats on assembly line
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The assembly line at Halvorsen's Yard, Ryde, Parramatta River, NSW, showing Australian and Norwegian shipwrights constructing high speed boats for the Australian and American armies. All the craft are...ART21359
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Arrival of Gloucesters in Royal Aircraft, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, when Governor-General of Australia made constant flights from State to State during the war period, invariably accompanied by H.R.H the Duchess of Gloucester. Their retu...ART25591
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Assembly line
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing ships under constructions at Tulloch's shipbuilding yards, Parramatta River, Rhodes, N.S.W. Ships under construction are of steel and known as ocean going cargo ships for the American and Aust...ART21365
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Auctioning army huts to Tableland farmers after the war, Atherton
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Tableland farmers who had worked hard and grown rich during the war years, looked with a shrewd eye on abandoned army buildings of doubtful value, and bidding was not high. Occasionally a large recrea...ART25635
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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Australian troops returning south rush the dining room, Rockhampton
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. The single track system extended from Brisbane in the south to the Atherton Tableland in the north. ...ART25562
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Australian troops swimming under Malanda Falls
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Before the war came to northern Australia, the people in Atherton Tableland lived somewhat remote lives. As the war progressed, the Tableland became the base camp for and northern training centre for...ART25636
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Bob Weber of Maryborough
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Robert David (Bob) Weber, works manager, Walker's Limited, engineering and shipbuilding works, Queensland.ART25566
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Bow and stern
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Commonwealth Shipbuilding Establishment; Tulloch's Yards, River, Rhodes; Bow and stern section of ocean-going cargo ship for Australian or American ArmyART21367
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Bow section of ship
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This bow section of ocean-going cargo ship is bieng lifted into position for the Australian or American Army at the Commonwealth Shipbuilding Establishment at Tulloch's Yards, River, Rhodes in New Sou...ART21366
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Boyd of Swansea, Lake Macquarie (James Boyd)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr James Lewis Boyd, boatbuilder, Lake Macquarie.ART25578
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Burning cane before harvesting, Gordonvale
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Owing to the labour shortage in the cane fields during the war, practically all ripened cane was first fired to remove superfluous leaves and trash and so make cutting easier. Cane cutting follows wit...ART25652
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Canberra War Memorial from Mt Ainslie
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a view of the Australian War Memorial, viewed from the tree covered slopes of Mt. Ainslie, looking across towards Old Parliament House. Robert Emerson Curtis (1899-1996) was born in Croydon, E...ART29725
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Canegrower's landscape
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Linking sugar farms to mills is a network of tram lines along which miniature locomotives fussily haul out the ripened cane. Here and there is a strip of primitive jungle swamp in which rank and beaut...ART25655
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Carrier bow
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts an aircraft carrier, with Grumman Avenger aircraft on flight deck, Harbour Bridge in background. For two days prior to departure she was taking aboard aircraft which had been recently repair...ART21476
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Cattle dipping, 'Gunnawarra'
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing cattle being driven through a dip containing chemicals to eradicate tick and other animal parasites. The cattle are completely immersed at least once during their journey through the trough, "...ART25610
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C E Crowley, boatbuilder
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr C E Crowley, boat builder, contract for refuelling barges, Brisbane. The proprietor of a boat building yard on the Brisbane River who was completing a war contract to build re...ART25586
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Colin Wyatt
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait sketch of Colin Wyatt playing the accordion made at Milne Bay.ART90428
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Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian War Memorial, Commemorative Area, Canberra.ART90645
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Communications Commander Archibald McLachlan
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Telegraphist Commander Archibald D McLachlan, MBE, Commanding, Naval wireless transmitting station, H.M.A.S Harman, Canberra.ART21382
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Control tower, Canberra Airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts three figures in air control tower; one standing with signalling apparatus to eye, another seated watching, and a third, female, partly obscured, on telephone. Numerous aircraft on the tarmac ...ART28150
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Corner of the old Duntroon homestead
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Built of stone and hand wrought timbers, this sturdy old home is now Military Staff Headquarter and Officers Mess of the Royal Australian Military College, Duntroon, Canberra.ART21398
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Crowley's yard, Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Seven of the eighteen employees in this yard are apprentices learning the trade and continuing with their studies at night school. In this small yard Crowley has built sailing craft, power boats, repa...ART25587
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Dan, (Daniel Buckley) forest overseer of Dimbulah
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Daniel Basil Buckley, forest overseer, who felled maples for aircraft production, North Queensland.ART25605
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D Day, Aboriginal stockman, Gunnawarra Cattle Station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Mr Darcy Day, Aboriginal stockman at Gunnawarra Station, Mount Garnet, North Queensland. Curtis visited the station from 28 September to the 2 October 1945 on his tour of Queensland as an official war...ART25611
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Destruction by flood of Inkerman Railway Bridge
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Near Ayr, with the loss of a goods train, two lives and many cattle, North Queensland.ART25555
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Digunono, Morata Island, South West Papua
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Digunono who worked for the Australia and New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). He came from Moratai Island in South West Papua. In 1942, R Emerson Curtis was appointed Officer in Charg...ART91886
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Dr Richard van der Riet Woolley
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Dr Richard van de Riet Woolley, Commonwealth Astronomer, member Commonwealth Optical Munitions panel, Chief Executive Army Inventions Directorate, Department of the Army, making observations from the ...ART21391
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Duntroon landscape
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing military exercises on the hill and Parade Ground. The old station homestead is seen on the extreme right. In the background is Canberra's Fairbairn Airfield and the Molonglo River winding thro...ART21390
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Duntroon types
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A group portrait of Australian soldiers standing side on looking into the distance; verso: A rough sketch of three soldiers and a field gun.ART28133
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Female Signaller-control tower, Canberra Airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts half figure of woman in profile holding signaling lamp up to eye. The artist made this sketch while visiting the control tower at Canberra airfield.ART28131
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Gilbert (Gilly) Bates of Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Gilbert 'Gilly' Bates, VDC, also senior field officer Bureau of Sugar Experiment, Cairns.ART25651
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Ground staff in the making
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Young recruits of the Royal Australian Air Force receiving their first basic training in mechanics and bench work from civilian instructors at the Canberra Technical College.ART21388
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Gunnawarra Aborigines, North Queensland
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A team of five unidentified Aboriginal stockmen milling cypress pine for the construction of cattle yards on Gunnawarra cattle station, with the use of a circular saw and a tractor, near Mount Garne...ART25601
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Halvorsens' boat building shop
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Figures of men working on three boats in Halvorsens' boat yard, Ryde, Parramatta River. All the craft are of timber construction and range from Fairmile motor launches to fast supply boats and search ...ART21360
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Highway through Kauri pine country, Kirrima Range
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In the tropical scrub, inland from Cardwell, a new highway has been built, down which monster trucks and jinkers haul out enormous kauri logs, delivering them at the Kennedy Mill, where rotary lathes ...ART25602
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Important aircraft
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Washing down the Governor-General's 4-engine "Endeavour" in the Royal Hangar at the Royal Australian Air Force airfield, Canberra. In the background is the old "Southern Cross" that had been spruced u...ART21383
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In the War Memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of the inside of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29724
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Joe the axeman (Joseph Fletcher)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Joseph Ethelbert Fletcher, timber feller, who felled kauri pine in the forests of North Queensland and had earlier driven bulldozers for the American Army.ART25606
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Joseph Glover, Aboriginal benchman, Ryan's shipyard
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Joseph Glover, Aboriginal, Benchman at Ryan's Shipyard, Brown's Creek, Taree. Before the war Glover toured Australia making a living in local agricultural shows as a champion ...ART25580
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Leading Teleprinter Operator, Patricia Scott-Stevenson
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of WR/868 Leading Teleprinter Operator Patricia Scott-Stevenson, serving at HMAS Harman, a shore signals establishment of the Royal Australian Navy, Canberra.ART25594
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"Livinai" Haiwali, Morata Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Livinai, with decorative comb in his hair. This portrait was reproduced in R. Curtis ' Men of Morata', Walkabout, 1 October 1944. In his article Curtis wrote ' Livinai, the boy with the sm...ART96151
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Loading kauri logs on jinker, Kirrima Range
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Loading Kauri logs into jinker for transport to Kennedy Mill and production into war material, Kirrima Range, North Queensland.ART25603
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Male Signaller, Control Tower, Canberra Airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts head and shoulders of man in profile holding signalling lamp up to eye. The artist made this sketch in the control tower at Canberra airfield.ART28132
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Max Dupain
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Max Dupain, camouflage officer, RAAF, Goodenough Island, New Guinea.ART90430
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Max shooting through the hatch of a Spitfire over Bankstown airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait sketch of Camoufleur Max Dupain shooting, with his camera, through the hatch of a spitfire over Bankstown airfield.ART90431