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Art
Maker: Lindsay, Norman Commonwealth Government of Australia Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
Poster depicts a German ogre, his blood-covered hands and forearms clutching at a globe of the world. Blood pours over Europe, and slowly oozes towards other countries, demonstrating the threat of th...ARTV00078
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'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
Tom Roberts established "Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting ...ART15032
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'A' Battery off to the war
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Maker: Allom, W J
Depicts the transport ship, the New South Artillery, 'A' Battery SS Warrigal steaming down the harbour on departure from Sydney for the Boer War. A number of small boats also farewell members of 'A' B...ART19830
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490
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Bring the frigates home
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Maker: Unknown Bring the Frigates Home Coalition
A protest poster campaigning against the First Gulf War (1990-91). The poster reads 'Bring the Frigates Home, No Gulf War, Rally March Town Hall Square, Sat 22 Sept 10am’.ARTV09079
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Camouflaged Gun Positions, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia's defences during the Second World War. This work depicts anti aircraft guns in place at Mi...ART23665
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Camouflage, HMAS Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The war time upper deck of a hard worked cruiser presents a very different scene to the same deck in peace time. Splinter mats, carlie floats and above all, dull grey paint have bought about the chang...ART30019
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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 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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Catalina on patrol
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Showing a Catalina Flying Boat of the Royal Australian Air Force on patrol over the Pacific Ocean off Sydney. A vessel can be seen through a break in the clouds.ART23667
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Catalina taking off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Consolidated Catalina flying boat taking off on a patrol which may mean twenty hours or more in the air over enemy territory. In a letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Treloar - Officer in Charge of the...ART22339
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Cement workers, Sydney graving dock
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Four cement workers at Sydney graving dock carrying out heavy manual work working using equipment such as shovels. Cranes and ladders and building structures fill the background. McClintock's focus on...ART30256
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Civil Construction Corps 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.ART30259
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Coast camouflage
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a group of men erecting camouflage nets over gun at West Head Battery, Sydney.ART28371.005
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Compass Platform, HMAS "Moresby"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This painting shows Lieutenant-Commander Brown, RAN, and two of his officers on the fore-bridge or compass platform. From here the ship is commanded and navigated, orders are given to gun crews and en...ART23441
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Corporal Edward Picton
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Corporal Edward Benjamin Picton, DCM, MM, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (later also NX12136, 1st Railway Construction Coy, 2 AIF) 1928.ART11354
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Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This is a highly personal response to the celebrations that Donald Friend witnessed in Kings Cross, Sydney, after the announcement on 8 May of Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of the Secon...ART23203
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Dock under construction
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
A scene from above of a graving dock under construction. McClintock's focus on the immensity of these structures is demonstrative of the scale of the project being undertaken.ART30268.011
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Domain crowd V-E day
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Maker: Friend, Donald
'Domain crowd V-E Day' depicts a scene in the Domain in Sydney on 9 May 1945, jubilant crowds celebrating the early morning announcement of the surrender of Germany.ART23294
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Down through the night
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot of a stricken aircraft who has just bailed out. Having exited head-first out of the escape hatch, he is free falling in the glare of searchlights. His right hand grips the rip cord handle r...ART22192
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Embarkation of the New South Wales troops for the Sudan
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G...ART19881
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Engine room HMAS Nepal
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Drawing shows the complex nature of steam pipes, tubes, meters, ladders and controls in the engine room of a destroyer, HMAS "Nepal".ART21851
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Garden Island
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Maker: Elliott, Frederick
Four unidentified vessels docked at Garden Island facility, Sydney Harbour.ART90992
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High Pressure Turbine, Sydney
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A sailor working on the high pressure turbine in a ship's engine room, Sydney.ART26551
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HMAS Brisbane departing HMAS Stirling, WA, 20/11/90, for the Gulf
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Maker: Norton, Lynne
Depicts the ship, HMAS Brisbane, a RAN destroyer, preparing to leave the wharf at shore station HMAS Stirling, Western Australia, on way to the Middle East, following the beginning of the First Gulf W...ART29487
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HMAS Sydney in action against Italian cruisers
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Sydney steaming past the crippled Bartolomeo Colleoni in chase of Italian cruiser Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere (out of sight), HMS Hyperion is approaching to rescue survivors and finally sink the wr...ART30095
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HMAS "Sydney" in action with Italian cruiser
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The scene depicts the phase in the action when HMAS 'Sydney' has hit and stopped the Italian cruiser 'Bartolomeo Colleoni' and at 4-5 miles distance is steaming past the vessel in pursuit of the secon...ART23692
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HMAS Sydney refuelling at HMAS Stirling, WA, 19/11/90 enroute to the Gulf
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Maker: Norton, Lynne
Depicts the ship HMAS Sydney , a RAN guided missile frigate, alongside the wharf at shore station HMAS Stirling, on its way to the Middle East at the beginning of the First Gulf War. An unidentified R...ART29485
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HMS Aircraft carrier Unicorn from HMAS Nepal in Sydney Harbour
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Maker: Goodchild, John
HMS Unicorn (aircraft carrier), part of deck of HMAS Nepal (destroyer) with Oerlikon machine gun and shield (left foreground), paravane (towed behind ship for gunnery practice) (centre); Bradley's Hea...ART25541
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HMS Renown, Sydney Harbour
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
HMS Renown, Sydney Harbour shows the ship anchored in the Athol Bight having brought the Prince of Wales to Australia. It was painted from the North Shore and shows the Domain, Elizabeth Bay and Garde...ART14910
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HMS Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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Ho Chi Minh
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Maker: Unknown Young Socialists Unknown
A head and shoulders portrait of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. The poster was issued by the Young Socialists in Sydney. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), whose real name was Nguyen Tat Thanh, was the Viet...ARTV08841
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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 Commander Leon Goldsworthy
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Lieutenant Commander Leon Verdi Goldsworthy, GC, DSC, GM. A mining engineer from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Goldsworthy's initial attempt to enlist in the navy was thwarted by his small stature. Hi...ART27503
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Middle Head garrison
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
An encampment for men of the Fortress and Coastal Defence Units. Tents and the site of 6 inch gun can be seen in the foreground, Middle Head Garrison is visible in the distance.ART23662
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Night encounter, HMAS Sydney and HMAT Zealandia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
While escorting SS "Zealandia" in the Indian Ocean, opportunity was taken to carry out an exercise using the transport as a suspicious vessel. Leaving her charge and returning at high speed on a new c...ART30017
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Night train in wartime
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Maker: Medworth, Frank
Depicts a man and woman asleep in a railway carriage during the Second World War. The woman wears a hat with a wide brim covering her face, while the man wears a three piece suit with a 'Returned fr...ART26926
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No Gulf War
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Maker: Unknown Bring the Frigates Home Coalition Unknown
A protest poster campaigning against the First Gulf War (1990-91). Produced by the 'Bring the Frigates Home Coalition' it advertises a rally and march, proclaiming 'No Gulf War' and urging people to ...ARTV09078
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Officer and orderly, New South Wales Lancers
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Maker: Unknown
This work formed the frontispiece for Frank Wilkinson's book 'Australian cavalry : the N.S.W. Lancer Regiment and the First Australian Horse', Angus and Robertson, Sydney. It was possibly illustrated...ART19687
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Opening fire, HMAS Warramunga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of Australia's three Tribal Class destroyers at battle practise and opening fire with her main armament.ART23687
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People dancing in the street V-E night, Sydney 1945
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified people dancing in a King's Cross street on V-E Night, Sydney.ART23201
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POWs arriving Sydney, July 1945
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Recovered prisoners of war have been repatriated from Europe on the transport ship SS Arundel Castle. They are seen here landing from a ferry at Fort Macquarie, Sydney.ART25488
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Professor Dakin
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a portrait of Professor John William Dakin, DSc, Professor of Zoology, University of, seconded to Commonwealth Government 1941-45 as Technical Director of Camouflage.ART29275
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A gun of the 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment in position on the shores of Sydney Harbour. Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia...ART23671
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2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A gun crew of the 2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun rushes to Action Stations on the sounding of an alarm at the Regiment's position, Sydney Harbour.ART23659
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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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Return of the New South Wales Contingent from the Sudan June 23 1885
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Maker: Hopkins, Livingston
Depicts the troop ship of the New South Wales Contingent, which had been involved in the War in Sudan returning to a wharf crowded with people to welcome them home. As it was raining heavily, the peop...ART50011
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Seaplane, Sikorsky Kingfisher, and RAN cruisers
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts Sikorsky-Kingfisher float-plane flying over HMAS 'Australia'. This work was started during the two weeks that Adams was in Richmond and Rathmines and was later finished in Sydney.ART26928
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Seaward patrol, Catalina flying boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot and co-pilot are at the controls in the big cabin of a Catalina flying boat. Overhead one of the 1,200 horse power motors is turning the airscrew into a flicking disc.ART22336
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Sergeant Harry Freame
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Portrait depicting 764 Sergeant Wykeham Henry 'Harry' Freame, DCM, 1st Battalion, son of an Australian teacher in Japan and Japanese mother, educated in Japan, previously served under Diaz in Mexico, ...ART11836
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Sergeant James Maguire
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Sergeant James Bernard Maguire, DCM and Bar, 4th Infantry Battalion, Western Front, Demicourt, 1929.ART11353
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Ship 139, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
While waiting in Sydney to accompany a convoy to the Middle East in March 1941, Norton took full advantage of his time by recording movements around the naval base on Garden island and the Sydney dock...ART30038
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Sketch for intended Light Horse memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a pedestal which supports a monument of four figures: a seated Sikh, a British soldier on horseback, a light horseman with a pipe on horseback and leaning forward on the horse, and a camelier ...ART19327
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Smoke screen
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Unidentified ships laying a smoke screen near Sydney Harbour.ART23057
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Soldiers conversing at Leave and Transit Depot
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers at Leave and Transit Depot, Sydney.ART22902
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Squadron Leader Frederick Burton at the controls of an Anson
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Squadron Leader Frederick Elgar Burton DFC, was an RAAF pilot who come to Australia on special duties. He won the DFC for being the first man to shoot down a German aircraft. The drawing shows Burton ...ART21528
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Starting up, 'Boston' attack bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the engine on a Boston bomber starting up from the 22 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART22337
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Study for `Airport at night' (Rose Bay)
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Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Study for the later work on paper "Airport at night" in Rose Bay, New South Wales. Depicts a nighttime scene of the people at work at an airport. Flood lights pours out of the hangar illuminating the...ART28307
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Swearing-in ceremony
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
The Swearing-In of H.R.H The Duke of Gloucester as Governor-General of Australia. The Chief Justice, Sir John Latham, in full bottomed wig is seen administering the Oath of Allegiance to His Royal Hig...ART23363
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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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Talking to the transports
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Maker: Norton, Frank
An exchange of signals between escort and transport. A flag hoist (right hand corner) is being hauled down while from the top of the starboard flag-lockers a signalman sends a message by semaphore. Th...ART30030
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The big ship, (H.M.T. Queen Mary)
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Maker: Koskie, Jack
Depicts a sketch of HMT "Queen Mary" embarking troops in Athol Bight, Sydney Harbour.ART31800
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The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Captain Cook, Hyde Park, Sydney
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Maker: Montague Scott, J Illustrated Sydney News
Thomas Woolner's statue of Captain Cook is unveiled in Hyde Park, Sydney. The ceremony was attended by some thirty thousand spectators, and included a parade by men of the Royal Navy, Naval Brigade an...ART19819
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The Fairground, Sydney
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Maker: Badham, Herbert
Depicts a fairground scene at night in wartime Sydney, probably at Rushcutters Bay. Soldiers and sailors on leave gather around, striking up conversations with groups of girls, some under the bright l...ART28490
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The First Lieutenant, HMAS "Moresby"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
First Lieutenant George A Johns, HMAS Moresby, was "seagoing" or in other words he was a Naval Reserve Officer in the Merchant Service, who at the outbreak of the war had been called up for service wi...ART21483
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The flag in the room
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Maker: Smith, Grace Cossington
A daughter of English immigrants, Cossington Smith had no sympathy for the anti-conscriptionists or an Australian nationalism that posed itself against England. Yet the break she made with conventiona...ART90721
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The protestors
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Maker: Boyd, David
Painting of Vietnam protestors at the height of the anti-Vietnam war protests in 1968.ART40882
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The Quartermaster, HMAS Warrego
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Quartermaster of the "Warrego" at the wheel, while in the chart room behind him, the officer of the watch checks the chart.ART22363
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The Royal Nuclear Show - 3
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Maker: Robertson, Toni Robertson, Toni Robertson, Toni
No. 3 in an anti-nuclear poster series parodying the Sydney Royal Easter Show created while Robertson was Artist in Residence at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, in 1981. The poster depicts ...ARTV08870
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The Second Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two air crew wearing 'Mae West' life jackets in a two-man inflatable life raft at sea.ART22190
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The 77th Galop song-sheet cover
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Band of 77th Regiment playing in the Botanical Gardens to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea (this Regiment was only in Australia from September 1857 to April 1858). A crowd of people are list...ART19818
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Upper deck, HMAS Australia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking for'ard on the upper deck of HMAS "Australia". To combat the fire menace all paintwork is being reduced. Ratings are seen chipping the base of the crane. Dark grey green is American Task Force...ART21021
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War Correspondent
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Melbourne Pratt, War Correspondent Sydney Morning Herald, typing a despatch to his paper one evening at the Public Relations cottage at Port Moresby.ART21503
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Will you fight now or wait for this
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Norman Commonwealth Government of Australia W E Smith Ltd
Australian First World War recruitment poster. This poster was part of the First World War Australian Government Recruiting Kit. Depicts a group of armed German soldiers threatening a young man pinned...ARTV00079
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X gun, 4" gun on HMAS Swan
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the three 4-inch guns which form the main armament of this RAN Slooth. The designation "X" is derived from the breach mechanism of the mounting on "X" deck which in British naval ships is a rai...ART22298