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ACF gives and can keep on giving!
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Second World War Australian Comforts Fund poster, depicting defence force members reciving gifts from a giant pair of hands. The Australian Comforts Fund was re-established on 9 January 1940. Based on...ARTV06426
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Acheron
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Section through 19th Century Acheron torpedo boat HMCS Acheron. The top image shows the deck plan of HMCS Acheron and the lower image shows the ship underway at sea. The torpedo spar was fitted at t...ART19864
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All together. Enlist in the navy
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Maker: Reuterdahl, Henry US Navy Unknown
recruitment, sailors, patriotism; recruiting poster for the US Navy, depicting sailors from Japan, USA, United Kingdom, Imperial and, with the flag of each country beneath and warships in the backgrou...ARTV06112
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A man short: are you the man
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Maker: Unknown The State recruiting Committee Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
Australian First World War recruitment poster. It depicts a tug-of-war between four German soldiers and three Australian soldiers. A signpost in the middle points to 'oppression' on the German side, a...ARTV07335
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Arbeiter, Bürger, Bauern, Soldaten Aller Stämme Deutschlands [Workers, Citizens, Farmers, Soldiers All the Peoples of German]
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Maker: Klein, Cesar Unknown Unknown
This First World War German poster depicts a number of workers forming a united front, standing together in unification. A faceless crowd outlined in black stand in repeat of this stance on the hill t...ARTV06638
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Army mobile selection team visits here
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Maker: Unknown Australian Army Unknown
A line drawing of the head and sholders of a soldier wearing a helmet in the left hand corner of the poster with text above him. This recruiting poster was used to advertise the time and date of the M...ARTV09096
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Australian Comforts Fund: don't let them down, the Blueys and Curleys
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Depicts a 2nd Australian Imperial Force poster appealing for donations of reading matter (books and magazines) for distribution by the Australian Comforts Fund to soldiers. Soldiers are shown in the j...ARTV05272
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Australian Infantry on the march through the mountains
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Maker: Unknown Beckmann Bros, London
Depicts men of NSW Contingent crossing mountains inland from Suakin. A mounted soldier can be seen in the lower right, while a train of soldiers, carts and horses can be seen in the distance. The colo...ART14434
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A.W.A.S wants 100's of Australia's keenest women urgently...
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Maker: McCowan, Ian Unknown LHQ Lithographic Coy, Australian Survey Corps
Australian Women's Army Service Second World War Anti-Aircraft Defence recruitment poster featuring a photograph of an AWAS woman (Doris Shilcock) in uniform, including hard hat, holding binoculars a...ARTV00335
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Back up your cobbers!
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Maker: Simmins, Claude Butler Department of the Army Unknown
Recruiting poster showing a soldier from the 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion, about to board a troop ship with his full kit. Other soldiers can be seen ascending the gangway. The 2/9th was the fir...ARTV04316
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Battle of the Modder River, November 28, 1899. Methuen's great fight
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Maker: Unknown George Newnes Ltd W H Smith & Son
Depicts the 1899 battle at Modder River Station, where members of the 62nd and 75th Batteries Royal Field Artillery, 9th Lancers, Guards Brigade, Scots Guards, 9th Brigade, 2nd Coldstream Guards, Argy...ART19886
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Before sunset buy a war loan bond
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Maker: Unknown Unknown John Sands Ltd
Australian First World War poster advertising War Loan bonds. It features a large Australian flag unfurled against a city in the distance. The outline of civic buildings is silhouetted black against ...ARTV05206
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Better pot-luck with Churchill today...
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Perry Colourprint Ltd
During the Second World War, the British were faced with food shortages, due in part to a concerted campaign by the German Navy, who used U-boats to sink British supply ships. The British government i...ARTV02611
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Boys! Remember Nurse Cavell
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Maker: Reilly, Virgil State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Unknown
Australian First World War poster depicting a menacing German officer, arms folded, standing over the body Nurse Edith Cavell (a British nurse in executed by the Germans on suspicion of being a spy), ...ARTV08902
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Bring the frigates home
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Maker: Unknown Bring the Frigates Home Coalition
A protest poster campaigning against the First Gulf War (1990-91). The poster reads 'Bring the Frigates Home, No Gulf War, Rally March Town Hall Square, Sat 22 Sept 10am’.ARTV09079
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Britain needs you at once
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd.
Recruiting poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, depicting Saint George mounted on a white charger killing a dragon.ARTV01139
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British entry into Pretoria, June 5 1900
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Maker: Unknown G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd
The final print in Bacon's series of South African Battle Pictures. The New South Wales Lancers are depicted in a parade with Field Marshall Lord Roberts and General Lord Kitchener (South Africa 1899-...ART19820
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Care costs you nothing and saves National Resources... Put it out ! Prevent Bush Fires!
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Maker: Unknown NSW Bush Fires Advisory Committee Unknown
Australian poster produced shortly after the end of the Second World War to promote fire safety. As resources were still in short supply as a result of the war, bushfires only acted to further drain e...ARTV02507
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Career for youth
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Maker: Unknown Australian Government Unknown
1941-1945; recruiting poster, airfield, aero engine, propeller; three men working on aircraft engine, airfield buildings in background, other aircraft flying overhead (including a Short Sunderland; Br...ARTV04289
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Coal is vital!
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Coal Commission Unknown
patriotism; poster issued by the Commonwealth Coal Commission urgin restraint in use of gas and electricity, thus saving coal (gas and electricity were produced exclusively from coal at the time), (Ge...ARTV06690
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Come!
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Maker: Unknown Unknown William Brooks & Co. Ltd
An Australian First World War recruitment poster . This design is a good example of a simple message combined with an straightforward image, which recruiting authorities believed characterised the mos...ARTV01122
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Concentrate on quality...
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Unknown
Poster produced for Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, depicting a man working on an aircraft engine, and urging high quality workmanship, with the words 'Concentrate! on quality (above the figure) i...ARTV09060
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Dairy farmers the United Nations looks to you...
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Maker: Commonwealth Food Control Unknown
Second World War Australian poster issued by Commonwealth Food Control, urging dairy farmers to increase milk production for the United (Allied) Nations. During the Second World War, Australia's Food ...ARTV02377
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Digger brand. "Don't argue"
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Government of Australia Unknown
Considering that most pre-1914 Australian posters were produced for commercial reasons, it is not surprising that posters like Diggers' Brand appeared. This poster directly references a very well know...ARTV00995
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Don't go to sleep. A truce is not a peace
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Maker: Unknown United States Army United States Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War warning troops to keep alert despite a truce being declared on 27 July 1953. A soldier sleeps on a stick of dynamite labelled "TRUCE", his rifle on the ...ARTV08071
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Don't Leave Spoil for the Enemy
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Maker: Unknown Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security Johnston, Leslie Ferdinand (L F), Commonwealth Government Printer
Poster encouraging soldiers to be discrete when digging holes, so that they do not alert the enemy to their presence. This cartoon is designed to humourously convey messages about safety. Depicts a y...ARTV03268
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Don't let down good soldiering...
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Maker: Unknown US Army US Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War advising troops to maintain their soldiering standards following the signing of the armistice on 27 July 1953. The silhouette of a soldier standing with...ARTV08072
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Don't spill the good oil
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Maker: Armstrong, H B LHQ, Australia Unknown
A poster published by the Army Land Headquarters to advise army officers not to waste oil. The image is of a soldier spilling petorl all over the ground while he fills up an army truck without lookin...ARTV07818
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Don't stand looking at this
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
British First World War recruitment poster depicts silhouetted soldiers going into action - the text calls for viewers to help them, rather than be content to merely look at the poster. The brown silh...ARTV07427
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Eat Less Bread
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Hill, Siffken & Co. (L.P.A., Ltd.)
bakery products, bread; poster urging people to 'eat less bread', which will save scarce resourcesARTV07403
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Emprunt national (National loan)
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Maker: Unknown National Discount Bank of Paris Champenois, F
battlefield, tree planting ceremony; poster depicting a young woman with a rosette in her hair, most probably intended to be Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, planting a tree over a grave o...ARTV00088
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England expects — buy National War Bonds or Savings Certificates now
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Maker: Franks, William J National War Savings Committee Unknown
British First World War poster issued by the National War Savings Committee (Poster No. 82.). One of several posters which use portraits and quotes from speeches of iconic British military leaders to ...ARTV00978
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Enlist
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Maker: Unknown NSW Government W A Gullick, Government Printer
This is an unusually delicate and subtly printed Australian recruiting poster. However, the beauty of the composition and colours belies the violent and tragic subject matter. It features a raid by tw...ARTV01155
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Enrol now in the National Salvage Corps
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Salvage Commission Unknown
Broadcast (radio) microphone; National Salvage Corps; poster urging people to enrol in the National Salvage Corps, one of many groups engaged in waste reduction and management, salvaging useable items...ARTV02743
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Every pound invested in national war bonds...
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Maker: A J British Government Unknown
ship yards, warship; poster depicting a ship being built, encouraging purchase of war bondsARTV00970
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Food is a munition of war!
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Maker: Commonwealth Food Control Commonwealth Food Control Unknown
Poster depicts a housewife throwing cans of food at a twisted caricature of a Japanese soldier. The title runs across the top half of the poster, in red and blue ink. The housewife, who is drawn in b...ARTV00161
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For friendly advice refer to your local repatriation committee
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Maker: Unknown
At the end of the First World War, there was tremendous difficulty faced by authorities in finding work for soldiers repatriated to Australia. When it came to the Second World War, there was greater o...ARTV02285
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Four out of five of these men chose their careers
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Maker: Unknown Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Comment Publishing Company
The Vietnam Moratorium Campaigns were a result of a conference held in Canberra in November 1969 to plan a series of protests based on the American Moratorium model. There were three Moratorium campai...ARTV00866
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General Buller's Entrance in Ladysmith and his reception by General White, 28 February 1900
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts Major Hubert Gough leading the relief force into Ladysmith, to be met by General White, who had commanded the defenders during the siege in South Africa (General Sir Redvers Buller made a form...ART19715
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"Get into khaki" We are doing our bit
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Maker: Burton, H M Unknown W A Gullick, Government Printer
Australian Army First World War recruitment poster. Encourages the viewer to enlist and help those already fighting. In the foreground on the left of the poster is an Australian soldier facing the vie...ARTV00152
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Going places! How about you?
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Maker: Unknown RAAF Unknown
Second World War; recruiting poster for RAAF air crew, showing pilot climbing into his aircraftARTV04296
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Hasten the homecoming. Buy Victory Bonds
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Maker: Rockwell, Norman Perceval US Government Unknown
American Second World War poster depicting a family, dog and neighbours welcoming home a soldier to a tenemnt building. The poster encouraged the purchase of Victory bonds to 'hasten the homecoming'. ...ARTV00715
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Hay tro ve voi chanh phu VNCH [Friends, return to the government of the Republic of Vietnam]
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Maker: Unknown 1 Psych Ops Australian Army
Depicts a Viet Cong soldier, wearing a helmet, tradional clothing and sandals, crossing from the rain and dark, representing communist North Vietnam towards the light and the South Vietnamese flag fly...ARTV09042
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Helft uns Siegen! zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe [Help us win! Subscribe to the War Loan]
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Maker: Erler, Fritz Unknown Hollerbaum & Schmidt
German First World War poster issued by the Government to promote the Sixth German War Loan. Designed by Fritz Erler (1868-1940) it features a three quarter portrait of a German soldier, staring into ...ARTV07323
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Help Australia- help yourself
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Government of Australia Unknown
patriotism; poster appealing for Australians to buy war savings stamps and certificatesARTV04357
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Help England's new homeless
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Maker: Warins Unknown Printers Ltd
patriotism; poster depicting a woman holding a baby, ruined buildings beneath, appeals for aid for victims of air raids inARTV02263
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HMCS Protector
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Her Majesty's Colonial Ship HMCS Protector became the longest serving ship in Australia (60 years), served in in the Boxer Rebellion, the First World War, as a tender at, and was requisitioned by the ...ART19863
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Ho Chi Minh
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Maker: Unknown Young Socialists Unknown
A head and shoulders portrait of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. The poster was issued by the Young Socialists in Sydney. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), whose real name was Nguyen Tat Thanh, was the Viet...ARTV08841
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Instead of these we are making these
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Maker: Unknown Department of War Organisation of Industry
This Australian Second World War poster was produced by Department of War Organsiation of Industry, advising that instead of making furniture for domestic use the resources are channeled into aircraft...ARTV02156
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Interest
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Maker: Unknown National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh J Weiner Ltd
law order and discipline; poster depicting six thinly disguised German spies (all speaking broken English) talking to police and civilians in the street, poster advises that interest on savings certif...ARTV07167