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Important aircraft
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Washing down the Governor-General's 4-engine "Endeavour" in the Royal Hangar at the Royal Australian Air Force airfield, Canberra. In the background is the old "Southern Cross" that had been spruced u...ART21383
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In the War Memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of the inside of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29724
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Leading Teleprinter Operator, Patricia Scott-Stevenson
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of WR/868 Leading Teleprinter Operator Patricia Scott-Stevenson, serving at HMAS Harman, a shore signals establishment of the Royal Australian Navy, Canberra.ART25594
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Lieutenant, Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force in Australia
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force during the Second World War. Dargie noted, "This officer commenced his training in Jav...ART30204
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Male Signaller, Control Tower, Canberra Airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts head and shoulders of man in profile holding signalling lamp up to eye. The artist made this sketch in the control tower at Canberra airfield.ART28132
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Maquette for Australian servicewomen's memorial
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Maker: Ferguson, Anne Ferguson, Anne
Maquette for the Australian servicewomen's memorial.ART90966
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Mike-four-shot-over
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In an Army Co-operation lecture room, Royal Australian Air Force personnel undergo instructions in artillery reconnaissance on a miniature range. Communications between air-crew and artillery posts ar...ART21387
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Mixed nationalities on Canberra airfield
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a Javanese airman, Corporal Djadi, and Sergeant Major Weertman from Zwolle, a member of the Dutch air force, checking over and servicing an American Curtiss p-40 Kittyhawk aeroplane at the RAA...ART21386
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Opening of Parlliament, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Opening of Parlliament, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Canberra.ART28457
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Posted 2 A.C.Ws Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts two women in uniform caps and overcoats seated on Bench, one dejectedly with chin in hand.ART28143
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Prisms for guns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Prisms for guns a drawing from the series 'Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra'. Prisms were used for binoculars and periscopes. Stromlo's Optical Lens Department produced the pr...ART21393
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Six cover layout designs for 'Camouflage' booklet
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
These are six designs from a series of twenty layouts, designs and ideas for illustrations for the Department of Home Security booklet drawn in 1942 in Canberra.ART91596
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Sketch - Canberra Airfield arrival of V.I.P's
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a group of figures standing beside wheel of plane with huge wing rearing above their heads across the page, a car to the right.ART28149
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Sketch for storm - Canberra airfield
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This work is a preliminary drawing in crayon for another artwork in the Memorial collection 'Winter storms over Canberra airfield' (ART21384). This work depicts Dutch aircraft and presumably pilots, w...ART94480
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Sketch for the title page of 'Rescue and Demolitions Manual, Civil Defence Handbook No 2'
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Pen and ink drawing for the title page. Illustration of coiled rope with axe through the centre; text below illustration. This is one from a series of twenty layouts, designs and ideas for illustratio...ART91591
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Smoko
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A group of A.C.1 trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force at the Canberra Technical College cluster around the coke stove between classes to discuss their notes and other matters. Such groups are re...ART21389
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1st Lieutenant W. F. A Winckel N. E.I
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
When a Japanese submarine was seen off the N.S.W coast early in 1942, Winckel hunted it down, bombed and sank it - the first enemy submarines to be destroyed by aerial attack in Australian waters. Win...ART21385
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Study for womens' services pendentive, Hall of Memory
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Study for womens' services pendentive, Hall of Memory.ART90210
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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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The Fall
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Maker: Tiatia, Angela
'The Fall' provides a contemporary illustration and insight into Singapore's and Australia's shared wartime experience during the Second World War and its complex legacies for both nations. It was dev...AWM2018.207.1