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Rope splicer, service wharf for graving dock under construction, October 1943
Art
Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Landscape of Sydney Graving Dock featuring cranes and construction in the background, with a man smoking a pipe and splicing (terminating the end of a run of hot rope) in the foreground. McClintock's...ART30268.014
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Section of dock wall under construction, September 1943; verso: sketch of dock wall construction in pencil
Art
Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Part of the dock wall at Sydney Graving Dock below crane carrying concrete blocks. Workers are depicted below. McClintock's focus on the immensity of these structures is demonstrative of the scale ...ART30268.010
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Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Built in the early 1940s to accommodate capital ships, the Captain Cook Graving Dock at Garden Island in Sydney was one of the greatest civil engineering projects in Australia up to that time. Seen as...ART30254
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Sections of tank for floating caisson, graving dock, October 1943
Art
Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Scene showing sections of tank for floating caisson at Sydney Graving Dock, as well as workers, dwarfed by the size of the structure. McClintock's focus on the immensity of these structures is demon...ART30268.012
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Studies, CCC workers, Oberon
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Four figure studies including two men with shovels, the back study of a worker and a stout, faceless man striding.ART30268.016
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Sydney graving dock
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
In this work the focus is placed on the immensity of the structure being built. The scale of the enterprise is emphasised by the towering walls, gantry cranes and a section of pipe being hoisted high...ART30253
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Timber clearing, Fish River dam
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Workers clearing timber, including a man in the foreground chopping at a tree trunk with an axe. Two workers appear beside him while several men perform the same tasks in the background. McClintock ...ART30261
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Tradesmen, Herne Bay
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Tradesmen from the Civil Construction Corps working in Herne Bay in Sydney during the Second World War. Pencil sketch for a painting and an intended mural.ART30266
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Working crew on capstan
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
On board HMS Queenborough, a British destroyer being refitted at Garden Island, Sydney. Shows the crew working on capstan while ship at Garden Island for refitting.ART25192