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Lappers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Depicts a group of factory workers, revolving wire brushes that polish surfaces of hardened steel to a jewel-like finish without producing dust, Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, New South Wales.ART90397
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Morning after night shift
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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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Polishers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Thick rag discs, their edges coated with glue and carborundum, from supple polish-wheels whose dust is carried off by powerful suction, Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, New South Wales.ART90399
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Potential absentee
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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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Rumblers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
With a sound like the sea, their rotary motion jostles sharp, wet silica chips and objects of unhardened steel in monotonous mass de-burring. They observe no crib nor stop-work meeting, Small Arms Fac...ART90398
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Take cover
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Maker: United States Army [S.L.] : UNITED STATES ARMY, [N.D.]
United States Army Second World War camouflage poster depicting a soldier clambering over a hill, bullets flying around him. The poster is reminding people to take cover and to be aware of bullets. T...ARTV02345
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The verticals
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Women operatives usually prefer the automatic machine with its many levers and press buttons to the belt-driven types which need less control. These arching American millers have vertical cutters. Dep...ART90396
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This scrap of food is an enemy bullet
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Maker: Morey, N E Australian Army LHQ Cartographic Coy, Australian Survey Corps
Australian Second World War poster depicting a half eaten scrap of bread with butter and jam that has a fly resting on it. This is sitting on the outline of a bullet. This poster warns that unhygien...ARTV02502
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Women's night shift
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Six nights of it, fighting sleep; gossip and walkabouts failing to revive after the men have clocked off. Eventually a skeleton staff of rostered males stayed until 7am., when the women and sketeton c...ART90400