Crushing tomatoes for seed, Yanco

Depicts Italian prisoner-of-war are employed at Yanco, New South Wales, in growing, picking and crushing tomatoes for seed, so that tomato production in Australia can be kept at the required level on Allied needs in the South West Pacific Area. Ralph Malcolm Warner was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.