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Do your bit on the Food Front
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Maker: Unknown Department of Commerce and Agriculture
Australian Second World War poster depicting a woman wearing a headscarf, overalls and gloves. She poses smiling while she rests her right foot on a pitch fork. The poster declares 'Do your bit on th...ARTV02452
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Morning after night shift
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
It's the morning after the night shift for workers from the Lithgow Small Arms Factory. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, the artist applied for a job at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory,...ART23953
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Munitions Supply Transport Driver, Miss Ruth Fowler
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Portrait of Miss Ruth Fowler, a Munitions Supply Transport Driver attached to the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribynong. Miss Fowler is portrayed wearing her full driver's uniform, and a vehicle...ART22340
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No 1 projectile shop (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
As the Second World War escalated, and men began to enlist, women took their place in the factories. Women became the dominant workforce in the munitions factories at Maribyrnong. They wore overalls...ART22141
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Nursing sister
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Maker: Ewers, Ray F J Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
A nursing sister crouched at the head of a soldier laid out on a stretcher, with her hands on the man's head. Commissioned some time after the war, this work was a belated recognition of the important...ART27562
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Painting tins to hold trench mortar shells (Mrs Shugg)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
A portrait of Mrs Joy Shugg painting tins to hold mortar shells in the High Explosives Section of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. The artist noted that Mrs Shugg painted 100 tins per...ART23702
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Potential absentee
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Pictured left is a woman with a crying baby while the right panel features a young woman singing and playing the guitar. Inbetween is a night shift worker unable to sleep, her nightmare of machinery c...ART28166
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Sister Ellen Savage
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
Australian Army Nursing Service; NFX76584 Sister Ellen Savage, GM, AANS. Sister Ellen Savage was the only nurse to survive the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur when it was torpedoed by the Japanes...ART22196
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Sketch of the fence from inside Camp Karees
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Maker: Samson-Bouret, Elizabeth
Depicts a sketch of the fence from inside Camp Karees, with the perimeter of the camp visible, with high gedak fences made of bamboo, topped with wire. Beyond the fence is another building and jungle ...ART92986
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Smoko time with the AWLA
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Maker: Taylor, Grace
Women from the Australian Women's Land Army enjoy a tea break, seated on dry grass in rural Queensland in the height of summer. A makeshift tent provides relief from the harsh summer sun, the bleached...ART29758
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Youth the foundation for the future
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Maker: Northfield, James Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster depicts a young man and woman in the foreground, set against a rustic landscape. The man holds a Red Cross flag. The poster appeals for people ...ARTV01165