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Collection
19 Results
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Anzac soldier
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Maker: Artist unknown
Small chalkware sculpture of a soldier in Australian uniform created in Australia during the 1940s. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program in 2016AWM2016.214.1
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Are you answering the call?
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Maker: Artist unknown
First World War propaganda poster using the lion as a motif for the British call to arms during the First World War, over all Commonwealth dominion countries.ARTV10460
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"australia's uranium will be exported only with the strictest safeguards"...
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Maker: Artist unknown Artist unknown
An Australian political poster protesting the exportation of Uranium. It features a quote by the then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and a man bound in chains. In 1977 the Fraser Government (1975-1983)...AWM2016.617.1
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Back the attack buy 4th liberty bonds
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Maker: Artist unknown
Utilising striking typography, this poster aims to encourage the public to purchase Liberty Bonds. This very simple design is highly effective and could have been utilised on a large scale to promote ...ARTV10384
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Back the attack! Invest in the 4th liberty loan
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Maker: Artist unknown
The sale of war bonds was a significant aspect of the Australian home front during the Second World War. Administered by the Commonwealth War Loan Office, the war loans scheme encouraged Australians t...ARTV10381
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Captured German guns awaiting distribution
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Maker: Artist unknown
This watercolour by depicts German guns set before the Melbourne skyline, awaiting dispersal. Following the official conclusion of the First World War, weapons captured from German, Austria/Hungary an...ART95010
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Digger on a camel
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Maker: Artist unknown
This sculpture offers historical insight on the life of Australian soldiers beyond the battlefield. Playfully seated on the camel smiling, the digger captures a moment of recreation for Australian sol...AWM2016.214.2
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Don't miss this!...
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Maker: Artist unknown
This poster was designed to promote the visit of a special services unit, in an unknown location, during the Second World War. The box at the bottom of the poster has been left blank, so that details ...ARTV10383
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Help the ANZACs!
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Maker: Artist unknown
This uncommon poster was published in New York to promote a fundraising badge sale in support of the ANZAC War Relief Fund.AWM2016.429.1
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His Excellency Governor Hampton presenting commissions to the officers of the West Australian Volunteers in front of the Government House at Perth, Western Australia
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Maker: Artist unknown The Illustrated London News
The West Australian Volunteers line up to receive commissions from the Governor in Perth, Western Australia. This image was based on a photograph of the event taken on 11 December 1863. The colonial o...ART19711
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HMAS Australia
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Maker: Artist unknown
The Royal Australian Navy was formed on 10 July 1911 and HMAS Australia was commissioned as the Navy's first flagship vessel. Built in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, HMAS Australia arrived in Sydne...ART96270
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Merchantmen and HMVS 'Nelson', Hobson's Bay, Williamstown
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Maker: Artist unknown
Group of colonial merchant vessels with HMVS 'Nelson' at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, Victoria.ART91192
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not titled [horse and cart]
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Maker: Artist unknown Unknown
Painting of man and boy pushing a horse-drawn cart with a house in the middle distance. Collection relating to NX28976 J V Leonarder. Verso inscriptions are badly faded and only partially legible, but...ART96593
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Our own Prime Minister asks you...Buy 4th Liberty Loan Bonds
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Maker: Artist unknown
Featuring an image of Australian Prime Minister John Curtin (1885-1945) in the upper left corner, this poster employs the text from one of Curtin's speeches to encourage the public to purchase Liberty...ARTV10387
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Pine Gap. The Most Important US Military Base In Australia...
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Maker: Artist unknown ACT Anti-foreign Bases Group
This poster promotes a protest march to Pine Gap organised by the Campaign Against Foreign Military Bases. In 1966 the Australian Government signed the Pine Gap Treaty and a joint US and Australian ba...AWM2016.429.3
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View from Sandridge of the 'Victoria' and HMVS 'Nelson'
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Maker: Artist unknown
View from the beach at Sandridge, Victoria, of two colonial warships, HMCS 'Victoria' and HMVS 'Nelson'.ART91193
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Wear it with pride! And back the attack!
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Maker: Artist unknown
The sale of war bonds was a significant aspect of the Australian home front during the Second World War. Administered by the Commonwealth War Loan Office, the war loans scheme encouraged Australians t...ARTV10382
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Works at the Fort, South Channel
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Maker: Artist unknown Australasian Sketcher
This colonial wood engraving published in the Australasian Sketcher, 27 March 1880 shows a small dinghy being rowed out to construction works of a fort in the middle of the channel.Other sailing vesse...ART19872
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Your nest egg for the future...
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Maker: Artist unknown
This poster features an image of a winking owl watching over a nest in which an envelope marked 'Liberty Loan Bonds' is resting. A full moon can be seen behind the owl. This poster encourages the publ...ARTV10385