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Do your bit on the Food Front
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Maker: Unknown Department of Commerce and Agriculture
Australian Second World War poster depicting a woman wearing a headscarf, overalls and gloves. She poses smiling while she rests her right foot on a pitch fork. The poster declares 'Do your bit on th...ARTV02452
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Female munition worker's beret
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Female munition worker's unlined wool worsted beret. The crown is loosely pleated into the band. The band forms a casing through which is threaded a green worsted tape for adjustment of fit.REL/17172
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Female munition worker's packing gloves
Heraldry
Pair of light tan leather gloves with gauntlet cuffs and dark leather palms. Each cuff is stamped 'M [broad arrow symbol] F'. One glove is marked in pencil 'Female Shell Packer'.RELAWM30614
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Female munition worker's snood cap
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dark blue large weave cotton net snood with elastic rear casing and a ribbed dark blue cotton peak and band. The band is lined with green artificial silk.RELAWM30613
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Hat : Miss M Mulvey, Superintendent, National Emergency Services
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Ladies dark blue, narrow brimmed fur felt hat, with a dark blue grosgrain band finished with a flat bow on the proper right. Attached to the centre front band is the white metal and red enamel badge o...RELAWM20422.003
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No 1 projectile shop (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
As the Second World War escalated, and men began to enlist, women took their place in the factories. Women became the dominant workforce in the munitions factories at Maribyrnong. They wore overalls...ART22141
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Painting tins to hold trench mortar shells (Mrs Shugg)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
A portrait of Mrs Joy Shugg painting tins to hold mortar shells in the High Explosives Section of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. The artist noted that Mrs Shugg painted 100 tins per...ART23702
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Shoes : Women's Danger Building Suit, Australian munitions workers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of women's brown leather lace-up shoes with 5 pairs of plain punched eyelets (not metal rimmed), brown cotton laces with celluloid aglets, and flat stacked heels held in place with wooden pegs. T...RELAWM30606.005
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Sketch of the fence from inside Camp Karees
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Maker: Samson-Bouret, Elizabeth
Depicts a sketch of the fence from inside Camp Karees, with the perimeter of the camp visible, with high gedak fences made of bamboo, topped with wire. Beyond the fence is another building and jungle ...ART92986