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Army command boat in building
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Army command boat under construction at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde. All the craft are of timber construction and range from Fairmile motor launches to fast supply boats and search and rescue launch...ART21361
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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Bow section of ship
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This bow section of ocean-going cargo ship is bieng lifted into position for the Australian or American Army at the Commonwealth Shipbuilding Establishment at Tulloch's Yards, River, Rhodes in New Sou...ART21366
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Carrier bow
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts an aircraft carrier, with Grumman Avenger aircraft on flight deck, Harbour Bridge in background. For two days prior to departure she was taking aboard aircraft which had been recently repair...ART21476
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Carrier leaving Sydney wharf
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
HMS Ruler with Grumman Avenger aircraft on deck, leaving wharf assisted by tug, Harbour Bridge in background.ART21376
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Cordite sheeting machine
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In 1940 Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, at Maribyrnong, Melbourne. He described the works as '...five to six hundred separate buildings, each designed for some special purp...ART23072
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Gunnawarra Aborigines, North Queensland
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A team of five unidentified Aboriginal stockmen milling cypress pine for the construction of cattle yards on Gunnawarra cattle station, with the use of a circular saw and a tractor, near Mount Garne...ART25601
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Loading kauri logs on jinker, Kirrima Range
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Loading Kauri logs into jinker for transport to Kennedy Mill and production into war material, Kirrima Range, North Queensland.ART25603
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Northward bound troop train pauses at Rockhampton for lunch at the station and a beer or two at the Terminus Hotel
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Northbound troop train pauses at Rockhampton for lunch at the station and a beer or two at the Terminus Hotel. This elegant station was built in England and shipped to Queensland during the latter par...ART25563
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Officer's mess, home of the flying-boat squadrons, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
From this typical North Queensland house, young fliers of the Royal Australian Air Force went out nightly on bombing missions over New Guinea, to return when the sun was up, to a meal and a long sleep...ART25627
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On the assembly floor
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Drawn on the assembly floor of the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshop, showing high precision drilling machines and racks of newly turned anti-aircraft gun barrels. The artist was given a tour by the Gene...ART23063
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RAAF ground crew overhauling a Mariner's engines on improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
RAAF ground crew working on engines of Martin Mariner flying boat on an improvised slipway, Trinity Inlet, Cairns.ART25631
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Shell-tapering machine
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
First subject chosen by the artist during his visit to the Commonwealth Ordnance Workshops. 'On the following day I chose the big electric drop-hammer for my first drawing. Lumps of red-hot steel were...ART23064
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Shipbuilding along Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Navy ships and a freighter tied up at the outfitting berth of Evan Deakin's Shipbuilding yard in Brisbane. Small American landing barges ride on the mud. The storey Bridge and the houses of Bowen Te...ART25590
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Skeleton of a 'Fairmile'
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Prefabricated bulkheads and partially built hull of Fairmile motor torpedo boat at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde (to be used by RAAF for air-sea rescue) In the background is the ribbed hull of a Fairm...ART21363
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Stern of liberty ship in floating dock, Newcastle
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
'Liberty' ships; stern view of 'Liberty' ship in floating dockART25575
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The chaff cutters, Gunnawarra Station, North Queensland
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of unidentified men cutting chaff, an ancient method of cutting chaff at "Gunnawarra," a large cattle station near Mount Garnett, North Queensland.ART25608
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The first all Australian built 3.7 inch anti-aircraft gun
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of the first all Australian built 3.7 anti-aircraft gun, Commonwealth Ordnance workshop, Maribyrnong, Melbourne. The artist went to great lengths to get the angle of this gun raised ...ART23066