Informal portrait of two Australian nurses in New Guinea washing hair. Hair shampoo and setting ...

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Accession Number 014553
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Brown, Norman
Place made New Guinea
Date made 1 April 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of two Australian nurses in New Guinea washing hair. Hair shampoo and setting remained important to nurses in forward areas. SX23901 Sister (Lieutenant) Joan Ilma Sandison from Glenelg, South Australia, gives a shampoo to QX44161 Sister (Lieutenant) Agnes Winifred Bleney from Rockhampton, Queensland.