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Abandoned concrete observation post, Castle Hill
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Abandoned concrete observation post, Castle Hill, Townsville.ART25646
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Abaya
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Abaya, from Daru, Western Papua with palm trees in background. Abaya worked for the Royal Papuan Constabulary. This portrait featured in R Curtis, 'Papuan Profiles: inside a Prison Yard', ...ART96168
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A bit of home news
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts soldier sitting on the deck of a small U.S. landing craft reading a paper. The landing craft is parked somewhere along the east New Guinea coast. One of 8 drawings from a folio entitled by the...ART28169.007
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A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hide's hotel, well known to northern tourists before the war, was the first living quarters in Cairns for pilots and officers of the Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron operating from Trinity...ART25626
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A cluster of scows at outfitting berth
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
These have been built for service in the islands for the Royal Australian Air Force by Slazengers, formerly sports goods manufacturers now builders of small craft for the Australian, British and Ameri...ART21381
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A corner of the main assembly floor,
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A corner of the main assembly floor showing Australian built Gannets and Wirraways, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory, Melbourne.ART23077
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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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All services canteen Mackay
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This canteen was the voluntary effort of the women of Mackay. It stood alongside the railway station and throughout the war it never closed, day or night. Its welcome hot meals will not be forgotten b...ART25616
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A Mariner of the air-sea rescue flight at anchor, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Martin Mariner patrol-bomber flying boat of the Royal Australian Air Force riding at anchor at the flying boat base, Cairns.ART25632
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An A.C.W, Canberra, HMAS Harman
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts smiling faced women in uniform overalls and beret propped up on desk top, with telephone.ART28144
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An Australian built aircraft on the assembly line
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of an Australian built aircraft engine on the assembly line, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory at Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne. In 1940 the artist toured the facility with Wing Command...ART23080
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Anti-aircraft guns-production line, Commonwealth Munitions, Vic
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a large hall with rows of large anti-aircraft guns, Commonwealth Munitions Factory, Victoria.ART28154
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A Papuan work-boy from Amau
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man from Amau in Central Papua New Guinea. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and A...ART96167
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Approach to Goodenough Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a view from on board a vessel towards Goodenough Island, New Guinea.ART90433
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A Queensland house goes for a ride
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This house, which stood in the way of a newly planned airstrip, had to be hauled away to another site.ART25622
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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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At ANGAU Headquarters, Goodenough Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Scene depicting two men working at the Australian New Guinea Headquarters (ANGAU), Goodenough Island which was situated several miles away from the Camouflage Headquarters on Goodenough Island. In 19...ART96153
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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 boarding an LST
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts Australian troops disembarking trucks and boarding an LST (Landing ship/s tank), Goodenough Island, New Guinea. One of 8 drawings from a folio entitled by the artist ' Episodes in the life of ...ART28169.003
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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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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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Black cats taking off from Trinity Inlet
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing Catalina flying boats of the Royal Australian Air Force taking off on a night bombing raid over New Guinea. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a t...ART25634
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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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Boomerang Pilot
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of a Boomerang Pilot in Papua New Guinea.ART28167.001
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"Boudda" from Amau, Papua
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Profile portrait of a man from Amau, Central Papua New Guinea with decorative comb in hair. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activ...ART96155
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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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[Boxing under the palms]
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of a boxing match under the palms, New Guinea.ART90432
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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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Boy of Morata
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every oppo...ART96160
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Boy of Morata (about 12 years)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a twelve year old boy. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took ...ART96166
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Bride - 15 years old
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young woman. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every o...ART96152
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Building army tanks
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a large factory hall with a series of army tanks. One tilted up showing tracks, men working, Commonwealth Munitions, Melbourne.ART28155
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Building Corvette, Mary River Maryborough
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
At one end of the town of Maryborough are the engineering works and shipbuilding yards of Walkers Limited, a very old Queensland firm building locomotives, sugar mill machinery, ships and every kind o...ART25567
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Building Lighters for the Navy at MacKay
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A new type of flat bottom 50 ton steel lighter was in construction at MacKay when the war against Japan came to and end. Designated a "lock-up" lighter, they made a colourful study in a coat of red an...ART25568
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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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Burning off stubble, Black soil country,Darling Downs
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Burning off stubble, black soil country, Darling Downs, Queensland.ART25613
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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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Careening Cove
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Near Milson's Point, North Sydney, N.S.W., the site of Hayes and Sons Boatbuilding Yards, where small craft are being built for war purposes.ART21372
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Caricature around the bar
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Officers if the 11th Air-Sea Rescue Flight, Royal Australian Air Force, Cairns.ART25667
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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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Carrier clean-up, Graving Dock, Sydney
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts bows of ship, men on rafts below cleaning ship's sides with long handled brushes; dockside and crane in distance. The artist has added touches of shading in biro ink since.ART28139
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Carrier leaving Sydney wharf
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
HMS Ruler with Grumman Avenger aircraft on deck, leaving wharf assisted by tug, Harbour Bridge in background.ART21376
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Castle Hills twin humps
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a painting of Castle Hill's twin humps, Townsville.ART25643
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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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Centre of Atherton and old air raid shelter
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hundreds and thousands of troops passed through the Atherton Tablelands district when the area was used as a vast camp and training area. This view is of the main street looking towards the Railway Ho...ART25641
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"Cleaned up" after work.
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a man relaxing after work, seated on a rock with a palm tree in the background. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activ...ART96172
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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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Cooktown 1945
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Looking south across the mouth of the historic Endeavour River to the northerly township of Queensland. A radar station and a lighthouse crowning the summit of Grassy Hill, swept the Coral Sea. Along ...ART25624
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Copper for war, Mt Isa
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A green pyramid of copper concentrate, preparatory to smelting. From Mt Isa in the far north west of Queensland came a steady supply of melted copper to meet the demands of war. From August 1945 in hi...ART25546
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Cordite sheeting machine
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In 1940 Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, at Maribyrnong, Melbourne. He described the works as '...five to six hundred separate buildings, each designed for some special purp...ART23072
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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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Corporal 'Blue' Ludlow
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Corporal Ludlow known as 'Blue' on board the 'Nuginco' in Papua New Guinea.ART28167.006
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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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Dawn take-off of the 'Dougs' from Garbutt
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Douglas planes of a Royal Australian Air Force Transport Squadron take off for the forward areas with their load of troops and supplies from Garbett Airfield, one of the busiest air fields in Australi...ART25597
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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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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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Delara - Kiriwina
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young woman drawn on Kiriwina Island breastfeeding her baby. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Aus...ART96136
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De-mobbed- what now?
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Head and shoulders portrait of ex-airman "Pat" wearing a white singlet standing in front of his cows.ART28153
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Demolishing a concrete air raid shelter
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
During the war these block-house shelters planted down the centre of wide Queensland streets were a feature of many towns.ART25621
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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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"Digunono" Nueyu, Morata Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of of a man. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every opport...ART96154
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Douglas Walker
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Douglas Walker in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.002
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Dredging for Tin on the Herbert River, Mt Garnett
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Inland, on the upper reaches of the Herbert River, rich deposits of tin were extracted by modern dredges during the war years.ART25617
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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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Elijah Lamb of Lismore
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Barnes Shipbuilding Yard; Mr Elijah Lamb, boat builder making tugboatsART25582
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Evening Toilet
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Full length portrait of a man using hand held mirror and combing his hair. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Aust...ART96174
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Even the laneways were used
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Making finishing adjustments to an Australian Army refueling launch, built in a factory yard far from the water, Slazenger's, Sydney. Slazenger's, with a payroll of 400 engaged in the manufacture of s...ART21377
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"Fairmile" and RAAF rescue craft at wharf
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The finished products in their official colours waiting to go out on tests. The Fairmil (background) is a submarine chaser and the other craft are Air-sea rescue craft of the Royal Australian Air Forc...ART21364
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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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Fergusson Islander of Sarams
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Seated portrait of a woman with a flower in her hair. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American t...ART96145
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Filling trench mortar shells with T. N. T. high explosive
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Trinitrotoluene (or TNT) was the most commonly used explosive in the Allied forces. This drawing shows it being poured into shells in a liquid form in order that the whole space of the shell was occup...ART23073
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Final touches to a steel tug, Hexham, Hunter River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
At J & A Brown's boat yard, where the first Australian all-welded ship was built. Here also was engineered the 'revolving jig' method of construction, to ensure all over 'down-hand' welding, Hexham, H...ART25571
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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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Fleet of Bren Carriers ready for delivery to an Australian Tank Corps
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A fleet of Bren gun carriers ready for delivery to an Australian Tanks Corps, manufactured by the Victorian Railway Munitions Annexe, Melbourne.ART23061
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Flight deck party
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The following picture was made during the visit of HMS "Ruler" to Sydney, when tied up at Pyrmont Wharf. For two days prior to departure she was taking aboard aircraft which had been recently repaired...ART21374
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003
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Flight Lieutenant Lawrence Brown
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts figure of man in bed as seen from bed-end. Crutches propped against bed.ART28137
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Flying boat anchorage
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Two Royal Australian Air Force Sunderland flying boats are seen at anchor while a Mariner flying boat takes off for New Guinea.ART25642
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Forging a gun barrel for a 3.7" anti-aircraft gun
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In 1940 with permits from the Department of Information artist R Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Munitions area on the heights above the Maribynong River, Melbourne. The first area he was take...ART23062
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Forging shells
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a large factory hall. In the foreground rows of shells. Men working at machine with large spanners holding shell in machine.ART28156
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"Gamau" Naqualeya, Morata Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of "Gamau" drawn by the artist on Morata Island. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and Americ...ART96158
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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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Girls at work; cutting, machining, polishing, testing millions of bullets
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Women were employed exclusively in the small arms section of the large Commonwealth Small Arms Factory in Footscray. Emerson Curtis captured this impression from the elevated vantage of a chair on top...ART23069
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GI's clearing Kunai around US army headquarters, Finschhafen
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
GI's clearing Kunai grass from around the 6th US Army Headquarters in Finschhafen, New Guinea. The headquarters are a native New Guinean church.ART28167.010