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That should read Pinnacle Street, not Pringle.

Brightly coloured recruitment posters encouraged young women to join up and more than 66,000 of them enlisted in the three services – Army, Navy and Air Force. They made up just under 7% of the nearly 1 million Australians who served. Thousands of young Australian women left home to join the new women’s auxiliary services, the: Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (RANNS) Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) Source: www.ww2places.qld.gov.au/homefront/women-in-the-war

More than 24,000 women joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) after it was founded in 1941 to free up men to join fighting units, marking the first time women were permitted to serve in the military. Women who were British subjects aged between 18 and 40 were eligible to enlist and were paid two-thirds of the equivalent male wage for their service. While it was initially thought women would be confined to roles such as typists and cooks, AWAS members ended up serving in army ordnance, artillery, intelligence and signals corps. They carried out clerical and manual work, maintaining transport and equipment crucial to the war effort and driving everything from cars to amphibious vehicles. In 1945, members of the AWAS became the first women to serve overseas in non-medical roles when a posting of 385 women sailed to New Guinea aboard the MV Duntroon. Source: www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2019/03/12/h...

It looks like a passport. I wonder if they could use this in place of a passport in some cases.

I decided to do a bit of digging into the LOC photos posted here, as well as into some other materials, to see what I could find relating to the Bain News Service. This photo is a good start, because it shows us George Grantham Bain himself. You can see his signature in the bottom right hand corner of the document, which is from 1912. Here's a brief Wikipedia page about him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grantham_Bain I should also mention this page that has information about the Bain collection: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ggbainhtml/ggbaintips.html It contains two GG Bain images that I couldn't find uploaded to Flickr: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15074 (a photo of GGB undated) and hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.06606 (a caricature of GGB undated). Next, comes three photos that are a set: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163811426 www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163011685 www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163010885 They all show the same man (is he GGB? I don't think so) at the same machine. The first of the three shows the machine facing in a particular direction and also shows some menial peering out of a store room at the photographer. The second of the three shows the machine facing in a different direction and no menial. Someone has written across the top of the photo "Printing the Bain News Service photos" and has also written on the machine "Bain-McDonald auto-printer" (could the man in the photos be McDonald perhaps?). There's also an "X" placed over the store room area. The third of the three photos is the second photo again with bits blanked out. Next comes www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163507966 which is a 1910 subscription to GGB's service by a Canadian newspaper. Finally, there is www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163813254 which shows firemen on the roof of the Bain News Service Building in 1912, putting out a fire. (Was the building, perhaps, at the address shown in the preceding photo?)

^thanks, that's good information.

interesting to see mr. bain, a new york photographer from chicago, getting a german driving license. I suspect he had to be fluent in german to get it. the license isn't issued by an equivalent to the modern DMV (or KBA in germany) but the local Hamburg police. the stamp with the three turrets, similar to the official sign of the free city, is noteworthy as it has been in use since 1412 until today. I've only seen one other handwritten german document of the time and that's a german passport hanging in the visitor area of the german embassy in new york city. it's dated from a similar or possibly even earlier time and authorizes the document to a gentleman with the expressed purpose of travelling to the united states (aka "Amerika").

Is this what the driver licenses still look like in Germany? What does a driver license in vancouver look like? I will be needing to get one soon since I will be moving there. Thank you for your help!