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Abaya
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Abaya, from Daru, Western Papua with palm trees in background. Abaya worked for the Royal Papuan Constabulary. This portrait featured in R Curtis, 'Papuan Profiles: inside a Prison Yard', ...ART96168
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A Papuan work-boy from Amau
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man from Amau in Central Papua New Guinea. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and A...ART96167
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Bob Weber of Maryborough
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Robert David (Bob) Weber, works manager, Walker's Limited, engineering and shipbuilding works, Queensland.ART25566
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Boomerang Pilot
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of a Boomerang Pilot in Papua New Guinea.ART28167.001
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Boyd of Swansea, Lake Macquarie (James Boyd)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr James Lewis Boyd, boatbuilder, Lake Macquarie.ART25578
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Boy of Morata
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took every oppo...ART96160
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Boy of Morata (about 12 years)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a twelve year old boy. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and American troops, Curtis took ...ART96166
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C E Crowley, boatbuilder
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr C E Crowley, boat builder, contract for refuelling barges, Brisbane. The proprietor of a boat building yard on the Brisbane River who was completing a war contract to build re...ART25586
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"Cleaned up" after work.
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a man relaxing after work, seated on a rock with a palm tree in the background. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activ...ART96172
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Colin Wyatt
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait sketch of Colin Wyatt playing the accordion made at Milne Bay.ART90428
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Communications Commander Archibald McLachlan
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Telegraphist Commander Archibald D McLachlan, MBE, Commanding, Naval wireless transmitting station, H.M.A.S Harman, Canberra.ART21382
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Corporal 'Blue' Ludlow
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Corporal Ludlow known as 'Blue' on board the 'Nuginco' in Papua New Guinea.ART28167.006
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Dan, (Daniel Buckley) forest overseer of Dimbulah
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Daniel Basil Buckley, forest overseer, who felled maples for aircraft production, North Queensland.ART25605
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D Day, Aboriginal stockman, Gunnawarra Cattle Station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Mr Darcy Day, Aboriginal stockman at Gunnawarra Station, Mount Garnet, North Queensland. Curtis visited the station from 28 September to the 2 October 1945 on his tour of Queensland as an official war...ART25611
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Digunono, Morata Island, South West Papua
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Digunono who worked for the Australia and New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). He came from Moratai Island in South West Papua. In 1942, R Emerson Curtis was appointed Officer in Charg...ART91886
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Douglas Walker
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Douglas Walker in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.002
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Dr Richard van der Riet Woolley
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Dr Richard van de Riet Woolley, Commonwealth Astronomer, member Commonwealth Optical Munitions panel, Chief Executive Army Inventions Directorate, Department of the Army, making observations from the ...ART21391
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Elijah Lamb of Lismore
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Barnes Shipbuilding Yard; Mr Elijah Lamb, boat builder making tugboatsART25582
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Evening Toilet
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Full length portrait of a man using hand held mirror and combing his hair. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Aust...ART96174
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003