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Albury railway station
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Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Depicts a group of soldiers wearing great-coats outside a darkened 'RTO' sign at the Albury railway station. A dark railway carriage forms the left hand side of the work. In wartime Australia the ra...ART28078
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A united 'fighting mad' Australia can never be enslaved
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
A Second World War Australian poster depicting a European man pulling a rickshaw, in which a Japanese man is sitting, past the Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne. A Japanese flag flies abov...ARTV09053
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Study for the large painting Hele executed of this subject, depicting exhausted troops from the 6th Australian Division disembarking on the docks at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece.ART23954
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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Australian troops returning south rush the dining room, Rockhampton
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. The single track system extended from Brisbane in the south to the Atherton Tableland in the north. ...ART25562
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Between two trains
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Maker: Herman, Sali
A view of the Albury Railway Station looking down the platform with a central vanishing point. Groups of soldiers are waiting with their luggage along the platform, and two trains pass them on either ...ART93997
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Careless talk costs lives: "...strictly between these four walls!'
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Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster issued by the Ministry of Information. It depicts two men talking in a Club, in front of a portrait of King Charles II with the face of Adolf Hitler. The ima...ARTV02449
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Destruction by flood of Inkerman Railway Bridge
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Near Ayr, with the loss of a goods train, two lives and many cattle, North Queensland.ART25555
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Green vegetables keep you well
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Maker: Beaumont H.M. Stationery Office Haycock Press
British Second World War poster by Beaumont promoting the consumption of green vegetables. The text dominates the majority of the poster on a central black trapezium with a background of green blotche...ARTV01792
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Loading the freight cars to Belzec
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
Cattle cars loading human freight at the Kleparow train station for their journey to the gas chambers at Belzec. Kleparow was on the outside edge of Janowska. The harsh black lines surrounded by the s...ART90348
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recto: Warning; verso: Beware Eye-Pickers...
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Maker: Cusden, Leonard Mendoza Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
Several in a series of accident prevention posters issued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) aimed at workers in the industrial factories and workshops supplying the British ...ARTV01639
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Return to unit
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Troops by their thousands passed through Albury. The change of railway gauges at the border meant changing trains, and the long Albury platform became familiar territory to troops who frequently had t...ART23059
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Ringed with menace!
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Maker: Northfield, James Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft Production
A poster produced for the Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft Production during the Second World War. The poster depicts a map of Australia ringed by threatening Japanese ships and aircra...ARTV09061
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Sleeper laying party
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Maker: French, James
This work depicts men carrying railway sleepers as part of the line laying party. By the time the party commenced work there would have been many men preparing the railway bed, digging out bamboo and...ART92688
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Tocumwal - loading the train
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Maker: Bergner, Yosl
Four figures stationed with the Army Labour Camp at Tocumwal during the Second World War. It is likely that the men were 'friendly aliens' employed within the 6th Employment Company based at Tocumwal...ART92132
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Use less gas and electricity...
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Coal Commission Unknown
civilian transport; poster issued by Commonwealth Coal Commission urging restraint in use of coal, gas and electricity, thus saving coal (gas and electricity were produced from coal exclusively at the...ARTV01082
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Vevi Pass
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Maker: Dargie, William
Showing the railway line and main road as seen from the south. The Germans broke through the position of the 1st Rangers (British) in the centre and began to attack 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion...ART23959
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Wharf at Alexandria
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Impression of the wharf at Alexandria. This study was completed for the painting 'Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation of Greece' that is held in the Australian War Memori...ART90262
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Women of Britain: Arm him
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Maker: Ministry of Labour and National Service Stafford & Co. Ltd.
This poster issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service is aimed to compel British women to join the war industry. The poster uses dramatic imagery to draw a direct link between the producti...ARTV01675