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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gilbert (Gilly) Bates of Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Sergeant Gilbert 'Gilly' Bates, VDC, also senior field officer Bureau of Sugar Experiment, Cairns.ART25651
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Joe the axeman (Joseph Fletcher)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Joseph Ethelbert Fletcher, timber feller, who felled kauri pine in the forests of North Queensland and had earlier driven bulldozers for the American Army.ART25606
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Joseph Glover, Aboriginal benchman, Ryan's shipyard
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Joseph Glover, Aboriginal, Benchman at Ryan's Shipyard, Brown's Creek, Taree. Before the war Glover toured Australia making a living in local agricultural shows as a champion ...ART25580
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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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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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Max Dupain
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Max Dupain, camouflage officer, RAAF, Goodenough Island, New Guinea.ART90430
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Miner, Mount Isa (Jack Thorburn)
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Mr Jack Thorburn, New Zealand born, has been a miner all his life. Underground was the only world he knew and liked best. As Underground Superintendent, Mount Isa Mines he spent most of his time below...ART25547
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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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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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The Indispensible Mr Malichar
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Mr. Malichar, working in a laboratory at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo. The artist, R. Emerson Curtis noted of this work: "Born in Vienna, Mr. Malichar came to Australi...ART21396
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Vincent Hall, chief engineer of Queensland railways during war
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr Vincent Hall, Chief Engineer Queensland Railways, Queensland.ART25559