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Women of Britain: Come into the factories
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Maker: Zec, Phillip H.M. Stationery Office Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
During the Second World War with the need to mobilise women into the workforce recruitment posters aimed solely at women became common. This poster by Philip Zec, a cartoonist who worked for the 'Dail...ARTV03534
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Women of the Forces...
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd.
Poster issued by the British Ministry of Pensions (formed 1916) to provide information to serving women including officers and other ranks about applying for the war service or emergency grant. This ...ARTV02599
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Women's change room (High Explosive Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
The change room for women TNT workers at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory in Maribyrnong, Victoria. Craig was appointed to record home-front activities and chose to record the involvement of women ...ART23626
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Women's night shift
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Six nights of it, fighting sleep; gossip and walkabouts failing to revive after the men have clocked off. Eventually a skeleton staff of rostered males stayed until 7am., when the women and sketeton c...ART90400
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Women workers in the Paper Room (Fuse Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a painting of unidentified women working in Paper Room, Fuze and Cartridge Bundling Sections of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22139
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[Women workers talking]
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
A single line sketch of two female workers talking, Commonwealth explosive factory, Maribyrnong.ART29643
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Women working in cordite section, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Women working in Cordite Section of the Commonwealth Expolsives Factory, Maribyrnong. Two women in the foreground wear overalls and protective hair nets, and work at sheels. A third woman is unravell...ART28163
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[Wood fire stove]
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Depicts a wood fire stove and heater in the corner of a cabin in the POW camp Oflag 7B. Although heating facilities were adequate, fuel for the fires was often in limited supply and consequently hoard...ART93148
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Work and talk around the hatch
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Men working and talking around the hatch. Curtis wrote of this image that: For recording exactly what I saw and with strict impartiality I was accused by the boilermakers afterwards of "undermining" t...ART21370
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Workers with propeller turbine for LHD1 (HMAS Canberra)
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Workers with propeller turbine for the giant amphibious assault ship Landing Helicopter Dock 1 (HMAS Canberra) at Ferrol, Spain. In this work the Spanish shipbuilders are at work on one of the giant p...ART94610
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Working crew on capstan
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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
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Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
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Maker: Hawkins, Sheila
Depicts members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Royal Australian Engineers, Forestry Units, moving felled logs in the snow. The artist inscribed on the work that this was the workers' "first sno...ART26918
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Working in the tunnel, Sulmona
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Maker: Comber, Albert
A greyscale wash drawing of two Prisoners of war working in a tunnel. At Sulmona the artist joined the Escape Team and tunnel-digging crew. Over two months they worked many hours underground, however...ART34781.008
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Working men, Konyu River camp
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Two men in Konyu River Camp. Chalker became a Japanese Prisoner of War when Singapore fell in 1942. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In ...ART29420
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Working on a Le Blond shell-boring machine, Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts an unidentified woman working Le Blond Shell Boring machine in the ordnance workshop at the Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22369
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Working on a Thailand railway cutting, July 1943
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of scene of 'F' Force men excavating earth for the railway cutting, lit by fires, with Japanese guard watching. The billowing fire and the men in shadows gives the illusion of being in ...ART25081
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Working on Wau-Bulldog Road
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a sketch of the 11th Australian Division working on Wau-Bulldog road, Bobdubi Ridge area, New Guinea.ART22540
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Working party returning to Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A group of men from a work party returning. Many of the men wear little clothing and some are shod in sandals that were manufactured by the Changi workshop. The deprivation in diet is apparent in the ...ART25108
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Work, Save, Fight and so Avenge the Nurses!
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Maker: Whitmore, Bob
Depicts the Hospital ship, 'Centaur' being attacked by the Japanese off the coast of Queensland, during the Second World War. In the water below the ship are a number of nurses and sailors from the sh...ARTV09088
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Workshop at Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts Sergeant Alexander Barclay, 2/10 Field Coy RAE and Staff Sergeant J S Whelan, 2/10th Field Coy RAE in an improvised workshop. Selerang Barracks were former British Army Barracks and were used...ART26628