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Bill Shorney
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Bill Shorney. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning of 1943 many prisoners had died and...ART28403.080
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Lappers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Depicts a group of factory workers, revolving wire brushes that polish surfaces of hardened steel to a jewel-like finish without producing dust, Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, New South Wales.ART90397
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Main entrance, Lithgow Small Arms Factory
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicts the front facade of the building of the Lithgow Small Arms Facory with trees and cars in the foreground. New administration buildings as well as many other additions and alterations were made ...ART24146
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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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Polishers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Thick rag discs, their edges coated with glue and carborundum, from supple polish-wheels whose dust is carried off by powerful suction, Small Arms Factory, Lithgow, New South Wales.ART90399
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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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Rumblers
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
With a sound like the sea, their rotary motion jostles sharp, wet silica chips and objects of unhardened steel in monotonous mass de-burring. They observe no crib nor stop-work meeting, Small Arms Fac...ART90398
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Straightening forgings of rifle barrels, Lithgow, S.A. Factory
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicts heated forgings being straightened by hand before going to the lathes for machining, drilling and filing at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory, New South Wales. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) wa...ART24145
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The verticals
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Maker: Hawthorne, Dore
Women operatives usually prefer the automatic machine with its many levers and press buttons to the belt-driven types which need less control. These arching American millers have vertical cutters. Dep...ART90396
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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