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A Cretan couple witnesses the invasion
Art
Maker: Winters, Michael
A scared elderly Cretan couple stands in their home as the German paratroopers float to the earth. The civilians of Crete, along with the British and allied soldiers, were amazed by the sight of thous...ART92805
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After the action
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
Two views of the Lvov ghetto upper and centre. The lower drawing shows a group of people rounded up after an 'aktion'. The 'aktions' were organised SS raids on the ghettos where the Jews would be sear...ART90341
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Alert
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts troops and civilians in Haifa moving towards shelter during an alarm for an air raid. A small newspaper clipping pasted to the front of the drawing reads "Air Raid Alarm in Haifa: An air raid...ART30289
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And the rockets red glare...
Art
Maker: Newmarch, Ann Newmarch, Ann Newmarch, Ann
A window with a blind made of a USA flag with a portrait of a victorious US President Richard Nixon in the upper left corner, through which can be seen a collage of injured and terrified Vietnamese ch...ARTV07380
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Arab huts, Jericho
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with Arabs, huts and a goat in the foreground, palm and other trees in the middle ground and steep hills behind a plain in the distance.ART02709
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Arabs by the sea
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with the sea in the background. A group of Arab men, women and children, stand at the top of a cliff, with their goats, horse, donkeys and dog. Figure lying lower right, blacks goa...ART11384
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Arbeiter, Bürger, Bauern, Soldaten Aller Stämme Deutschlands [Workers, Citizens, Farmers, Soldiers All the Peoples of German]
Art
Maker: Klein, Cesar Unknown Unknown
This First World War German poster depicts a number of workers forming a united front, standing together in unification. A faceless crowd outlined in black stand in repeat of this stance on the hill t...ARTV06638
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Are you in this?
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Maker: Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson Riddle & Co
British First World War recruitment poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Poster No. 112). It features artwork by Lord Baden Powell of a soldier, a sailor, a boy scout, a nurse, a f...ARTV05211
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Armistice Day
Art
Maker: Hanrahan, Barbara
Hanrahan depicts four women with their first names above the images from l-r: Alice, Molly, Dawn, Mary. Behind them on the wall are the images of six men l-r: Bob, Willy, Ron, Charlie, Arthur, David. ...ART29756
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Assembling a 3.7 anti-aircraft gun, Maribyrnong, Victoria
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
A heavy 3.7 inch heavy anti-aircraft gun in the course of construction, Ordnance Workshop, Maribrynong. Melbourne.ART23436
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A tous les francais
Art
Maker: de Gaulle, Charles J. Weiner Ltd.
A French Second World War poster published by Charles De Gaulle from his headquarters in London. The poster features a quote signed by De Gaulle, appealing to French civilians and resistance to contin...ARTV01616
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A tous les Francais
Art
Maker: de Gaulle, Charles J. Weiner Ltd.
A French Second World War poster published by Charles De Gaulle from his headquarters in London. The poster features a quote signed by De Gaulle, appealing to French civilians and resistance to contin...ARTV00186
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A tous les Francais
Art
Maker: French Army J. Weiner Ltd.
This French Second World War poster contains a quote from General Charles de Gaulle from London, soon after he fled following the Axis invasion of France on 17 June 1940. The text comes from a speech ...ARTV02236
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A tous les Francais
Art
Maker: de Gaulle, Charles J. Weiner Ltd.
A French Second World War poster published by Charles De Gaulle from his headquarters in London. The poster features a quote signed by De Gaulle, appealing to French civilians and resistance to contin...ARTV04087
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Australian soldiers searching East Timorese, INTERFET compound, Dili
Art
Maker: Amor, Rick
Australian soldiers searching East Timorese in the International Force (INTERFET) compound, Dili, East Timor.ART91077
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Back home
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
A returning soldier and a woman embracing at the docks in Sydney as others leave the area to catch waiting buses. On the left a wounded serviceman sits while on the right, part of a troopship can be s...ART22893
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Barracuda watchers
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Maker: Mutton, Katy
Detailed background composed of complex ink line work and the unmarked figures of a woman walking with a child outlined in blue ink in the central foreground. A drone is presented in the upper right c...ART96277
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Berlin
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Kaiser Wilhelm II Memorial Church, Kurfurstendamm, Berlin was damaged in air raids on the night of the 23rd November 1943. The church was in the neo-romanesque style and had been built under the Emper...ART25710
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[Blank page]; verso: Salvage dump, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Recto: A blank page; Verso: Depicts a man loading a cart with empty shells. A team of four horses stand harnessed to the cart and there are two trees in the background. From the artist's sketchbook co...ART19796.012
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Boer war news
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Maker: Leist, Fred
This drawing is probably for a magazine or newspaper, and the joke relies on the homonym (boar, Boer); newsboy selling papers, elderly man buying paper, tram conductor in background.ART50113
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Bombardment of Hazebrouck (Inhabitants watching the destruction of their homes)
Art
Depicts a group of French women with bundles of personal possessions beside them , watching the destruction of their town, during the first bombardment of Hazelbrouck. Will Dyson was the first Austra...ART02410
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British Centre (British WRENS, VAD Joan Farquharson and VAD Katherine Elwood)
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
The British Centre provided entertainment and meals for the large forces of British personnel who were in Australia. The two British WRENS seated at the table had only been in Australia for two days. ...ART25184
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Britishers : you're needed : come across now
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Maker: Myers, Lloyd British and Canadian Recruiting Mission Unknown
First World War recruitment poster issued by the British and Canadian Recruiting mission to encourage British citizens resident in the United States and Canada to enlist in the British and Canadian Fo...ARTV06151
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Busigny
Art
Benson describes the scene in this sketch: "These old French peasantry had been living under German rule all through the war and had prctically starved towards the end. This sketch show some of our di...ART03605.055.001
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Canal, Helwan
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a group of Egyptians carrying water away from a freshwater canal in Helwan, which is near Cairo. Other groups are working in the fields. In the distance are hot baking chalk-white hills. Th...ART30045
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Canteen, Fuse and Cartridge Bundling Sections (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts the women's canteen of the Fuze and Cartridge Bundling Sections of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22140
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Canteen impression (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Scene in the women's canteen, government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22603
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Careless talk costs lives: ".....but of course it musn't go any further!"
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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 railway carriage with Herman Goering and Adolf Hitler sitting in the luggage racks ove...ARTV02450
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Careless talk costs lives: "Don't forget that walls have ears!"
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Maker: Ministry of Information
British Second World War cautionary poster depicts two women having tea. The wallpaper is a repeat pattern of Adolf Hitler's head. This one of a series of 'careless talk costs lives' posters by Cyril ...ARTV02448
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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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Car park, Main Street, Atherton
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
View from a verandah of a Barrett's Railway Hotel on the main street of Atherton. The street is lined with military vehicles, the post office on the right is surrounded by anti-blast barricades and t...ART23872
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Cement workers, Sydney graving dock
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Four cement workers at Sydney graving dock carrying out heavy manual work working using equipment such as shovels. Cranes and ladders and building structures fill the background. McClintock's focus on...ART30256
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Chargeman in the soldering bay (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of an unidentified chargeman in soldering bay, detonator section, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22592
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Chargeman traying up closed detonators (Chargeman Thomas Carey)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a painting of a Chargeman, Thomas Carey 'traying up' closed detonators, government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22584
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Chargemen (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Chargemen W Fanning and T McLellan working at a bench packing detonators at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory at Maribyrnong, Victoria. These men wearing scarlet uniforms are painting, labelling and...ART26106
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Chargemen painting, labelling and tipping detonators (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Charge painting, labelling and tipping before final packing of detonators to services. The chargemen wear a uniform of bright red, with a yellow band on the left arm on which is a black letter, "C". G...ART22579
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Chargewoman McGillivray soldering (Stasia McGillivray)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Stastia Maud McGillivray soldering a tin in the cartridge bundling section of the Maribyrnong Commonwealth Explosives Factory.ART22605
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Christmas Eve in Suai
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Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Christmas Eve concert and performance witnessed by Sharpe at Suai Cathedral where the East Timorese people re-enacted the massacre that had taken place in the cathedral. Wendy Sharpe was appointed off...ART91137
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Christmas Eve in Suai
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Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Christmas Eve at Suai Cathedral where the East Timorese people re-enacted the massacre that had taken place in the cathedral.ART91138
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Civil Construction Corps tradesmen, Herne Bay
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Tradesmen from the Civil Construction Corps working in Herne Bay in Sydney during the Second World War.ART30259
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[Civilian]
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Maker: Vasco, Louis
A civilian man walks past a group of three boys, who call "How much?" and "Vot am I?". The man has stubble, wears a suit and smokes a ciggarette, while the boys are dressed in shorts and in one case, ...ART90493
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Civilian telegraph service to France...
Art
Maker: Freedman, R Great Britain Post Office
G.P.O poster advertising the civilian telegraph service to France and its current routes. This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.ARTV02436
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Closing and flattening bay (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts two unidentified women working machinery in a closing and flattening bay, in the Detonator section of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory.ART22135
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Coal is vital!
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Coal Commission Unknown
patriotism; poster issued by the Commonwealth Coal Commission urgin restraint in use of gas and electricity, thus saving coal (gas and electricity were produced exclusively from coal at the time), (Ge...ARTV06690
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Coal Saving a National Duty...
Art
Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
British First World War poster urging citizens to conserve coal as part of the war effort. Black and white only the central image is a stylised block of coal. The title and text fill the rest of the p...ARTV00388
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Coffee shop, Baghdad
Art
Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts the interior of a coffee house in Baghdad, with a patron sitting on a divan being served with coffee. From Set 2 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesop...ART00082
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Come into the ranks and fight, don't stay in the crowd and stare...
Art
Maker: Unknown Central Council for the Organization of Recruiting in Ireland Alex Thom & Co. Ltd
A recruiting poster depicting a crowd of civilians staring at soldiers marching along a city street past the Flag of Leinster (Ireland). Irish support for the British during the First World War was fr...ARTV00958
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Come into the ranks and fight for your King and country...
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentry Recruiting Commitee, London Roberts & Leete
British First World War poster issued by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (PRC), London. Established in August 1914 the PRC was a combined party organisation chaired by the Prime Minister, Herbe...ARTV00593
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Cordite sheeting machine
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In 1940 Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, at Maribyrnong, Melbourne. He described the works as '...five to six hundred separate buildings, each designed for some special purp...ART23072
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Cutting and scraping (T.N.T. Room, High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts seated unidentified workers at a work table at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong during the Second World War. The women are engaged in cutting and scraping activities in the TNT...ART22571
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Cutting and scraping (Women workers in T.N.T. Room, High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified women at work bench in the T.N.T room, High Explosives Section, Explosives Factoury, Maribynrnong, Victoria.ART22569
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Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?
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Maker: Lumley, Savile Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd.
Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet, while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her...ARTV00433
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Daddy, what did you do in the nuclear war?
Art
Maker: Earthworks Poster Collective Mackinolty, Chips Robertson, Toni
This poster is a reappropriation of a British First World War recruitment poster 'Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?' by Savile Lumley. Depicts a father sitting in an armchair at home looking at...ARTV07356
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Das War Smolensk [That was Smolensk]
Art
Maker: Unknown
The town of Smolensk is located in western Russia close to the Russian/Belarus border. In 1941, Operation Barbarossa saw the German forces advancing on Soviet territory and panzer armies were closing ...AWM2018.844.2
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Death for a neighbour on Banya St, Bulimba
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A pile of goulish-eyed monsters that had once seen action as Flying Fortresses, Liberators and 'Biscuit Bombers' lay rusting in a crumpled heap beside a little suburban house. The junk is part of an A...ART25592
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Departure of the New South Wales contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
Art
Maker: Unknown Breckmann Bros., London
Lithograph was adapted from a photograph ML (P x A 354, vol 3) of troops passing down Gresham Street, Sydney. They are being cheered by the onlookers, some soldiers are mounted, most are marching. On ...ART19713
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Departure of the New South Wales Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
Art
Maker: Beckmann Bros, London Unknown
This Lithograph was adapted from a photograph held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales's collection of the NSW Contingent troops passing down Gresham Street in Sydney. They are ...ART91490
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Departure of the NSW Contingent from Sydney for the Sudan
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Maker: Unknown Beckmann Bros, London
This lithograph of the departure of Australian troops from the NSW contingent for the War in Sudan (1885) was adapted from a photograph in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, NSW (P x A 354, vol 3) of troop...ART14433
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Deutschlands ideale zukunft unter der Herrschaft des Bolschewisten [Germany's ideal future under the dominion of the Bolshevist]
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Maker: Kassin, M Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] Heymann und Schmidt
A post-First World War German anti-Bolshevist poster issued by Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] c.1919. The poster features the image of a giant male figur...ARTV00129
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Digger brand. "Don't argue"
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Government of Australia Unknown
Considering that most pre-1914 Australian posters were produced for commercial reasons, it is not surprising that posters like Diggers' Brand appeared. This poster directly references a very well know...ARTV00995
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Digger scores
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Depicts a street scene with an Australian digger on the right, his arm in a sling, throwing quoits onto a board on the street in front of him. He is surrounded by people observing his play. There is a...ART40967
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Distributing gifts at Binh Ba, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Three Vietnamese women receiving gifts of clothing from an Australian soldier in Binh Ba, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam, as part of the Australian Civic Affairs Unit (1ACAU) programme, often referred to...ART40579
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[Donkey's Anatomy]; verso [Villers Bretonneux water point]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Four pencil drawings of a donkey and anatomical parts of the donkey including the head, the back half and the forelegs and chest in profile. Verso: A pencil drawing of the town of Villers Bretonneux. ...ART19796.009
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Don't Be Fuel-Ish
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Maker: Bateman, Henry Mayo Ministry of Fuel and Power H.M. Stationery Office Stafford & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster highlighting the importance of using fuel economically. The poster is one of a campaign featuring humorous cartoons by Henry Bateman that involve a scenario with a cent...ARTV02048
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Don't waste bread!
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Maker: Ministry of Food Clarke & Sherwell Ltd.
bakery products, bread, woman, submarine; poster produced by the British Ministry of Food, encouraging reduced consumption of bread with consequent saving of scarce resources at the time of the 'sink ...ARTV00378
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Don't Waste Here the Fuel You Save at Home
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Maker: Bird, Cyril Kenneth Ministry of Fuel and Power Stafford & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster, designed by well known propaganda artist 'Fougasse', issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power for display in factories. It shows a painter changing words in a slogan, ...ARTV02006
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Dormitory 14, Pootung Camp
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Maker: Lindsay, Arthur
Pencil sketch of a group of inmates working in dormitory 14 of Pootung Camp, Shanghai. Rays of sunlight shine through the partially incomplete ceiling as the men work at repairing the floor, windows a...ART92956
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Dormitory, Pootung Camp
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Maker: Lindsay, Arthur
Watercolour study of a dormitory interior at Pootung Camp, Shanghai. The high-ceilinged room is dominated by the softly draped forms of mosquito bed nets hanging from the ceiling, beneath which the ou...ART92954
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Drawing for headpiece for 'Nuts' in 'Jungle Warfare' 1944
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A group of men, women and one soldier crowd around a post office counter at Christmas time. The soldier is talking with the woman behind the counter, and all of the people look harried and anxious.ARTI00012.B
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[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Covered trucks parked]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The right hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This painting depicts dugouts set in the side of earth works, a corrugated iron lean-to and two soldiers. Verso: three ...ART19796.005
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2e Emprunt de la Defense Nationale (2nd National Defense Loan)
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Maker: HANSI (Waltz), Jean Jaques P.J.Gallais & Cie., Edit.
church, soldier; poster depicting a village with flags on church and houses, veterans mingling with civilians, and a soldier in the foreground, seeking subscriptions for the second national defence lo...ARTV06249
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3e Emprunt de la defense nationale, souscrivez pour la France qui combat! pour la France qui combat! pour Celle qui chaque jour grandit [Third National Defence Loan, subscribe, for France who is fighting for the girl growing up every day]
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Maker: Leroux, Jules Marie Auguste Joseph Charles
A French soldier holds his child in his arms to kiss him on the cheek. To his lower right, a woman is breastfeeding a baby.ARTV00091
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Embarkation of the New South Wales troops for the Sudan
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G...ART19881
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En Belgique les belges ont faim [In Belguim the Belgians are hungry]
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Maker: Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre L'Alliance Franco-Belge I Lapina
Poster depicting a group of civilians standing next to a billboard that advertises a raffle to raise money for food for the Belgians. The title on the poster is: 'In Belgium the Belgians are hungry', ...ARTV01184
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Enlist
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Maker: Unknown NSW Government W A Gullick, Government Printer
This is an unusually delicate and subtly printed Australian recruiting poster. However, the beauty of the composition and colours belies the violent and tragic subject matter. It features a raid by tw...ARTV01155
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Enlist in the Navy, follow the boys in blue for home and country
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Maker: Wright, George Hand [NEW YORK : S.N., N.D.] (NEW YORK : GILL ENGRAVING CO.)
United States Navy First World War recruitment poster. It features the image of many sailors in uniform boarding a Naval ship with a group of sailors in the right foreground gesturing to a group of me...ARTV00860
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Enrol now in the National Salvage Corps
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Salvage Commission Unknown
Broadcast (radio) microphone; National Salvage Corps; poster urging people to enrol in the National Salvage Corps, one of many groups engaged in waste reduction and management, salvaging useable items...ARTV02743
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Evacuees in a cottage at Cookham
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Maker: Gabain, Ethel
Mrs Norris of Cookham, with five of her war family of seven children from London who had by 1941 been with her for sixteen months. Mrs Norris is the ideal foster-parent, and there are very many other ...ART29713
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Fewer hot baths - and save Coal!
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Maker: Unknown [s.l.] : Coal Mines Department, Board of Trade [n.d.] (London : Dangerfield Printing Co.) Coal Mines Department, Board of Trade. Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd
British First World War poster issued by the Coal Mines Department of the Board of Trade. It features a giant lump of coal floating against an orange background. The text urges the viewer to conserve ...ARTV00181
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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First bombardment of Hazebrouch
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Depicts a soldier carrying an officer's valise on his shoulders as he walks along a road way in a French village. He walks along with women and children also carrying their belongings and bags. The wo...ART02291
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For friendly advice refer to your local repatriation committee
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Maker: Unknown
At the end of the First World War, there was tremendous difficulty faced by authorities in finding work for soldiers repatriated to Australia. When it came to the Second World War, there was greater o...ARTV02285
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Fruit seller and child Viet
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Maker: Moore, Peter
A Vietnamese fruit seller holding her baby in her arms. Beside them sits a basket of fruit. In the background a helicopter flies in the sky above bombed buildings, including a church. Moore is comm...ART45071
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Gassed refugees from Armentieres, Hazebrouck
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Depicts two French civilians, an elderly man and a young boy. The elderly man wears sabot (clogs) and his eyes are bandaged following a gas attack. He is seated on a bundle, with the young boy standin...ART02339
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Gate of the Winds
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Maker: Black, Karen
This work depicts figures fleeing from the Syrian civil war framed by the stone archway of the 'Gate of the Winds'. The artist draws on the ancient history of Aleppo (Bab al-Hawa, the ‘Gate of the Wi...ART96879
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Geared for victory...
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Maker: General Motors Holden
One of a series of wartime posters issued by General Motor's Holden Ltd. to encourage increased production and demonstrate the company's support of the war effort.ARTV00196
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General Buller's Entrance in Ladysmith and his reception by General White, 28 February 1900
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts Major Hubert Gough leading the relief force into Ladysmith, to be met by General White, who had commanded the defenders during the siege in South Africa (General Sir Redvers Buller made a form...ART19715
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Getting a good hearing
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Maker: Stone, Alexander
An illustration depicting what may happen to a soldier from the Tunnelling Company having returned from the First World War home to Australia. He is in a pub with two civilians and a barmaid listening...ART03458
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Girl at the electric closing machine (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of an unidentified women sitting at the electric closing, in the Closing and Flattening Bay, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22585
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Girls assembling ammunition boxes, Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts unidentified women assembling wooden ammunition boxes, ordnance workshop, tools and machines. The following duties were performed by female labour in the Woodworking Section, of the Ordnance F...ART23528
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Girls at work; cutting, machining, polishing, testing millions of bullets
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Women were employed exclusively in the small arms section of the large Commonwealth Small Arms Factory in Footscray. Emerson Curtis captured this impression from the elevated vantage of a chair on top...ART23069
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Girls at work in the closing and flattening bay (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Closing and Flattening Bay, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. Depicts unidentified women, they are protected by glass screens through which they to work.ART22582
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Girls rivetting
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Newport; women at an Railways Workshops, Newport, using pneumatic rivetters on rear fuselage of BeaufighterART25925
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Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines (1816)
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Maker: A.I.E
This lithograph is of an early piece of government propaganda from colonial Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania). The print was probably made for the Intercolonial Exhibition, held in Melbourne in 1866. Despi...AWM2019.1099.1
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Grand Volunteer Review on the Melbourne Racecourse
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Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Melbourne Post
Volunteers engaged in training manoeuvres as part of troop review, most wearing kepis, at left are two punts with White Ensign, crowds of civilians watching activities.ART50185
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Ground staff in the making
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Young recruits of the Royal Australian Air Force receiving their first basic training in mechanics and bench work from civilian instructors at the Canberra Technical College.ART21388
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Group of civilians and diggers repairing crates for transport to Task Force
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
A group of civilians and Australian soldiers repairing crates for transport to the Task Force in Vietnam.ART40724
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Halt the Hun!
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Maker: Raleigh, Henry P. US Government Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co.
Depicts United States infantry soldier preventing a German from killing a woman and her child. The U.S. soldier's left hand is resting on a rifle that is pointing down to the ground. His right arm is ...ARTV00243
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Hand reeling room
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Studies of the equipment in the Hand reeling room, High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART29612
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Hand reeling room (munitions factory)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depict a painting of an unidentified woman with hand reeling equipment, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART29458