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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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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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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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Lawson's wartime timber yard, Tully
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Lawson's wartime timber mill at Tully, North Queensland. The huge kauri logs seen in the foreground will be stripped into plywood sheets by a rotary lathe. From August 1945 in his capacity as official...ART25599
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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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The big figtree in Abbott street
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Beneath its great branches, an ugly concrete air-raid shelter stood during the war years, Cairns, Queensland.ART25630
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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