Monitress of Fuze Section (Miss Beatrice Munns)

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Maribyrnong
Accession Number ART23544
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 45.6 x 35.6 cm Frame: 63 x 52.5cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas on cardboard
Maker Craig, Sybil
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Maribyrnong
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait, in left profile, of Miss Beatrice M Munns, a monitor in the Fuze Filling Section of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria. Was appointed assistant monitress, 1941 and monitress 1944. As an important member of the Personnel department she helped maintain the morals, welfare and discipline of the hundreds of women workers in the section.

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