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Battered on active service
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
From Norman Wright's boatyard at Bulimba, one looks across the river to Bowen Hill's crowned by a large dance hall and band rotunda. An antiquated side wheeler, 'The Hetherington,' now a steam driven ...ART25588
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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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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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Death for a neighbour on Banya St, Bulimba
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A pile of goulish-eyed monsters that had once seen action as Flying Fortresses, Liberators and 'Biscuit Bombers' lay rusting in a crumpled heap beside a little suburban house. The junk is part of an A...ART25592
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Invasion barges at launching bay, Boggy Creek, Brisbane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The development of these all-welded steel landing barges was the work of the Ford Motor Company in Brisbane in conjunction with naval and military engineers. The first barge to be built measured only ...ART25585
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recto: Mounting Anti-aircraft gun on a Ford built landing barge, Brisbane River ; verso: not titled [tank and soldier]
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
recto: Depiction of men mounting anti-aircraft gun on a Ford built barge tied up against wharf, Brisbane River, Queensland. verso: unfinished rough sketch of a tank and a soldier in the centre of the ...ART28151
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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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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 supply trains moving through Central Station, Brisbane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
All southern supplies moving northward into the war zone had to be transhipped to narrow gauge rolling stock in Brisbane yards. Notice the concrete block-house air-raid shelters down the centre of the...ART25565
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Wartime along Breakfast Creek, Brisbane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Two refuelling launches emerge from the shadows of an old boatyard. A new Royal Australian Air Force rescue craft lies alongside, gleaming in fresh paint. Little peacetime boats rub shoulders against ...ART25589
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Workmen's ferry for Chinese war-workers, Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Rushing for the ferry, the mob of yelling Chinese, once part of the crew of ships destroyed in the war, were employed by the U.S. Army as labourers. Hundreds of them worked along the Brisbane Waterfro...ART25593
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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