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Airman (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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Airman of RAAF, design used on pendentive in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29387
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Air Vice-Marshal Francis Bladin
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Air Vice Marshal Francis Masson Bladin, CB, CBE, formerly Chief of Staff, British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.ART27507
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Air Vice-Marshal William Bostock
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Air Vice Marshal William Dowling Bostock, CB, DSO, OBE, Air Commanding RAAF Command Allied Air ForcesART27501
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Basic principles for fighting aircraft fires
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Royal Australian Air force poster published in 1959 outlining some basic principles for fighting aircraft fires and illustrating fire crew positions. The title is positioned across the top of the post...ARTV09669
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Beat the swords into ploughshares
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Maker: Vouchetich, Evgeny
This dramatic sculpture portrays a heroic nude lunging forward as he raises a mallet to strike a sword, transforming an implement of war into an implement of peace. The figure's youthful, muscular bod...ART41005
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Blue Danube [black]
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Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2016.356.1
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Blue Danube [white and black]
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Maker: Scarce, Yhonnie
Contemporary glass artist Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1973. She belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce is one of the few contemporary Australian artists to explor...AWM2017.929.1
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Brigadier William Windeyer
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w...ART31763
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Captain Hector Waller
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Maker: Smith, Joshua
Captain Hector MacDonald Laws Waller, DSO and Bar, was a distinguished Royal Australian Navy officer who saw war service in the First and Second World Wars. In the Second World War he was given comman...ART27505
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Captain Stanley Darling
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Maker: Rousel, Roy
Commander (later Captain) Stanley Darling, DSC and two Bars, RAN, commanding Royal Navy escort vessels on anti-submarine patrols; Atlantic Ocean, East IndiesART31768
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Colonel Edward (Weary) Dunlop
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colonel (Ernest) Edward 'Weary' Dunlop, OBE, MS Melb, FRCS, FRACS. Perhaps Australia's most well known veteran of the Second World War, Edward Dunlop became well-known for his medical work with Austra...ART26999
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Comradeship in the regular army...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
This Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster states 'Comradeship in the regular army...for enlistment apply to any Army establishment or recruiting centre. The image on the poster is of three men in unifor...ARTV09281
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Corporal John Edmondson
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Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portrait of NX15705 Corporal John H Edmondson, VC, 2/17 Battalion, AIF, was in a small group that attacked with the bayonet a party of Germans which had broken through a point of the Tobruk defences i...ART27532
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Craftsmen serve Australia in the CMF
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster stating 'Craftsmen serve Australia in the CMF, apply to RAEME TRG Depot, Irwin TRG Centre Karrakatta'. The image on the poster is of a soldier, probably an enginee...ARTV09285
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Death March
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Maker: O'Connor, Vic O'Connor, Vic
Death March provides overarching critical commentary on suffering and the loss of life caused by conflicts in the twentieth century. It is undated but believed to have been painted in the early 1970s,...AWM2016.615.1
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Beaumont has depicted the infantry pendentive and he envisaged the finished mosaic to have a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second World Wa...ART29400
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive [initial design]
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Initial design for the Hall of Memory mosaic. Beaumont has depicted the infantry and the design has a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorates the services of the Second...ART29399
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Dome Section, Cartoon for Hall of Memory Mosaic
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Section of design for dome in Hall of Memory.ART29386
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Don't go to sleep. A truce is not a peace
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Maker: Unknown United States Army United States Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War warning troops to keep alert despite a truce being declared on 27 July 1953. A soldier sleeps on a stick of dynamite labelled "TRUCE", his rifle on the ...ARTV08071
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Enlist...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Enlist...as a tradesman in the regular army apply to any army establishment or recruitment centre'. The image on the poster is of two large cogs, the ...ARTV09283
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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
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Maker: Mayo, Daphne Ingham, Alan
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of VX1 General (later Field Marshal) Sir Thomas A Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, General Commmander-in-Chief, AMF; Middle East, Pacific, also First World War. This p...ART31869
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Flight Lieutenant Norman Williams
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Maker: Rousel, Roy
Royal Australian Air Force, Bomber Command, Pathfinder Force, No 35 Squadron; 411624 Flight Sergeant (later Squadron Leader) Norman Francis Williams, CGM, DFM and Bar, air gunner 35 Sqdn, RAF; Essendo...ART27515
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Flight Lieutenant William Newton
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
This posthumous portrait of Newton in his flight gear was based on a photograph provided by the VC's brother Lindsay, and was the result of extensive research by the artist. While Cook reported the p...ART27536
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[Gallipoli landscape]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
The landscape is textured and appears scarred and ravaged through the use of Nolan's rubbing technique. Nolan had visited museums in Athens and seen many Ancient Greek sculptures and artifacts. The ru...ART91305
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Group Captain Hugh Birch
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting Group Captain Hugh M Birch, DFC, who was among Australian air crew in the United Kingdom at the outbreak of war in 1939, and subsequently flew Sunderland flying boats with No.10 Squ...ART31774
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Group Captain Wilfred Arthur
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Group Captain Wilfred Stanley Arthur, DFC, RAAF.ART27539
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Guard the peace...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Stand behind the United Nations. Guard the Peace in the regular army'. The image on the poster is of an Australian soldier with a rifle standing on g...ARTV09282
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Hall of Memory: east window
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Designed by Napier Waller each one of the Hall of Memory's fifteen stained glass windows represents a defining quality of Australian servicemen and women, incorporating images of Australian soldiers, ...ART90410.003
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Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive: Airman
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This Hall of Memory pendentive features the Air Force. In the remaining walls of a cathedral, the flying officer stands and surveys the destruction of beauty and human ideals. He is inspired to defend...ART90409.002
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Handle the most modern equipment
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Handle the most modern equipment in the RAASC. The image on the poster is of a modern tank in a landscape.ARTV09288
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Join the navy, army, air force
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Maker: Unknown Australian Defence Force Unknown
A recruitment poster showing a sailor, soldier and airman marching together. Only the top half of their bodies are shown and each man looks over his right shoulder. The words 'Look to the services f...ARTV04223
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Lend strength to Australia!
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Maker: Unknown Department of Treasury Unknown
A hand turning a spanner around a nut, which forms the letter 'o' in the word 'loan'. The entire text on the work reads 'Lend strength to Australia! Eleventh Security Loan'.ARTV04463
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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC. Served during the 1914-18 War with British forces in East Africa against German led Askari, and was awarded the...ART31764
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Lieutenant Ernest Park
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
Portrait of NX8942 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel) Ernest Noel Park, DSO, 2/2nd Battalion, holding a prismatic compass and map in a jungle setting.ART27511
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Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman
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Maker: Smith, Joshua Allen & Unwin
VX20308 Lieutenant General (later Sir) Frank Horton Berryman, (KCVO), CB, CBE, DSO, Chief of Staff at Australian Advanced Land Headquarters, General Headquarters; North Africa, and campaigns, previous...ART27533
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Lieutenant General Sir Iven Mackay
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Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portriat of NX363 Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, KBE, CMG, DSO and Bar, MID (x2), General Commanding Force; Middle East, North Africa, also previously First World War, Western Front 2nd A...ART27537
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Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Savige
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Corps; VX13 Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, Commanding II Corps, 2 AIF;, (also in First World War,, and [Dunsterforce], Fo...ART27535
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Lieutenant-General Sir Vernon Sturdee
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Vernon Ashton Sturdee, KBE, CB, CBE, DSO, Chief of Australian General Staff 1946-50 (retired).ART27518
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Lincolns of No. 1 Squadron operating over Malaya during the Emergency, 1957
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
Malayan Emergency 1948-1960; No 1 Squadron; Australian- built Avro Lincoln bombers attacking jungle camp during counter-insurgency campaignART27684
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Listening angel
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Maker: Perceval, John
'Listening angel' reflects on 'the Korean war and the post-atomic age' and was created in response to that conflict. It is part of a group of ceramic sculptures begun in 1957. Informed in part by an a...ART90099
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Major General George Wootten
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Maker: Dargie, William
George Frederick Wootten (1893-1970) served during the First World War landing at Gallipoli, 25 April 1915. During the Second World War he commanded the 9th Australian Infantry Division. In the post w...ART27508
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Major General Ivan Dougherty
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Maker: Carter, Norman
Depicts a portrait of NX148 Major General Ivan N Dougherty, CBE, DSO, ED, after a period with the 2/2nd Infantry Battalion he was appointed to command the 2/4th Battalion, which he led in Libya, Greec...ART31773
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Maralinga Aftermath, Crater Where Four Bodies Were Found
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Maker: Brown, Jonathan Kumintjara
'My political outlook has been sharpened by what has happened to my homeland. Much of my Ancestral land is now inaccessible to me as a consequence of the testing in the Maralinga region in the 1950 an...AWM2017.255.1
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Maralinga Bomb
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Maker: Karrika, Belle Davidson
Following on from the Korean War, the British nuclear weapons testing program was the most significant military event in Australia during the Cold War. Twelve atomic weapons were detonated in Australi...AWM2016.581.1
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Maralinga Story
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Maker: Baker, Alec Baker, Alec
This drawing by senior Yankunytjatjara artist Alec Baker tells the story of the impact of the weapons testing program at Maralinga on the Country and the people. Although he was a young adult at the t...AWM2017.1296.2
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Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)
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Maker: Muffler, Betty
This painting by senior Pitjantjatjara artist and traditional healer Betty Muffler depicts the good places, that is, places that are healing in her country following the devastation caused by the weap...AWM2017.1296.1
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Preserve the glorious traditions...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
This Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster states 'Preserve the glorious traditions of the 10th Light Horse in the 10th Western Australian Mounted Infantry your Citizen Army Unit. The image on the poster...ARTV09287
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RAAF's first operation over North Korea, 2 July 1950
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Maker: Taylor, Robert
Six RAAF North American P51D Mustang fighter aircraft escorting nine USAF Boeing B29 Superfortress bombers on raid over North Korea. No enemy aircraft were sighted. Medium anti-aircraft fire forming a...ART28996
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Rear Admiral Harold Farncomb
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Rear Admiral Harold Bruce Farncomb, CB, DSOART31765
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Sailor, (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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seaman of RAN, design used on pendentives in Hall of MemoryART29385
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Soldier (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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Depict infantryman of 2 AIF, design used on pendentive in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The for this image was Cliff Reynolds, a seaman. Cliff Reynolds was assistant to Paul Monfo...ART29384
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Spare time...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
A Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster that states 'Spare time...for Australia's defence in the Citizen Army'. The image on the poster is that of a man in civilian clothes, standing next to an image of ...ARTV09284
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Stoker Petty Officer Percy Collins
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Maker: Cook, Alfred
Portrait of Stoker Petty Officer 18665 Percy Alfred Collins, DSM and Bar, Royal Australian Navy; Battle of Crete.ART31770
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Study for womens' services pendentive, Hall of Memory
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Study for womens' services pendentive, Hall of Memory.ART90210
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Swans, (cartoon for hall of memory mosaic cornice)
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Stylised flying black swans above waterlilies, design used on cornice in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Verso; charcoal drawing of Shakespeare.ART29382
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They get the messge through...
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Maker: Army Headquarters Publicity
This Citizen's Army Force (CMF) poster states 'They get the message through in the Royal Australian corps of signals of the Citizen Army'. The image depicts a 'certa cito Australia' emblem, a signall...ARTV09286
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Today's finest investment... 15th Security Loan
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Maker: Unknown Department of Treasury Unknown
View of an Australian city skyline from a river or harbour. The words 'Today's finest investment..15th Security Loan' appears in the sky.ARTV04369
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United Nations Day October 24
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Maker: Unknown United Nations
This poster was issued by the United States Government to promote United Nations (UN) Day in 1953. It features the distinctive light blue and white flag of the United Nations being waved against a gol...ARTV00232
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Vice Admiral Sir John Collins
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of Vice Admiral Sir John Collins, KBE, CB, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand, formerly commanding officer HMAS (1935-41); Mediterranean (Bartolomeo Colleoni), Gulf.ART27541