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A chain gang, convicts going to work near Sydney, New South Wales; plate from A Narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies by James Backhouse, 1843
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Maker: after Edward Backhouse
A chain gang of convicts being escorted to work by armed soldiers of the British Army, an overseer (civilian) leads the way.ART19846
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An incident on the Burma railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of a scene witnessed by Colonel Dillon of the British Army, of the bashing of two British and one Australian prisoners of war by Japanese on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin original...ART26525
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Military gaol, Alice Springs
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Military gaol in Alice Springs, with only the faint outline of a prisoner on the right, behind the wire. Thake's work concentrates on the Mulga tree posts, barbed wire and the red sand of the desert.ART26969
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POW asleep, Ofuna
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a Japanese POW asleep on the floor on a thin mattress, his body covered in a blanket and his head resting on a traditional hard pillow. When catalogued in 1945, this work was accompanied by th...ART22802