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  1. A Queensland house goes for a ride

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    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    This house, which stood in the way of a newly planned airstrip, had to be hauled away to another site.

    ART25622

  2. Australian troops boarding an LST

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    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Depicts Australian troops disembarking trucks and boarding an LST (Landing ship/s tank), Goodenough Island, New Guinea. One of 8 drawings from a folio entitled by the artist ' Episodes in the life of ...

    ART28169.003

  3. Centre of Atherton and old air raid shelter

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Hundreds and thousands of troops passed through the Atherton Tablelands district when the area was used as a vast camp and training area. This view is of the main street looking towards the Railway Ho...

    ART25641

  4. Road to Atherton

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    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Atherton Tableland was, for a long period of the war, a vast camp area and hundreds of thousands of troops passed through the various camps. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Eme...

    ART25640