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• The Library of Congress 123 photos & illustrations
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• Provincial Archives of Alberta 37 photos & illustrations
• British Library 23 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 20 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 19 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 19 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 17 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Photographic Arts 16 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 15 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 12 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Australia 11 photos & illustrations

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Men working on NSWGR 36 Class locomotive 3667, 11 November 1942

from State Library of New South Wales

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Philip Cohen said:

  In fact, this is a NSWGR 36 Class loco and this one is number 3667 …

• State Library of New South Wales said:

  Philip Cohen Thanks Phillip - have updated the caption.

Women selling ice in the suburbs, Brisbane, 1942

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  As the war progressed and came closer to Australia’s shores, this need for more “manpower” grew even more pressing. Eventually it was conceded that women’s services would be required, though one question was still perplexing some: what exactly could women do? One woman who took up the challenge of a “man’s job” was Mary Emma Martin (nee Jackson). Before the war, Emma’s husband Bob was an ice vendor, delivering blocks of ice to Brisbane’s inner-northern suburbs, in the days before refrigerators when everyone relied on an icebox in their home to keep foodstuffs from perishing. Ice delivery was such an essential service that at first ice vendors were excused from military service; it was still quite a novel idea to think a woman could handle the job. However, when Bob Martin and other men enlisted for service, Emma took on the role, along with an estimated 50 other women ice vendors in Brisbane alone . Amid wartime crisis, these women literally kept cool and carried on! Source: www.anzacsquare.qld.gov.au/stories/australian-women-work-...

Workers on Wellshot Station photographed with the working dogs ca 1938

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Wellshot Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station. It is located about 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Ilfracombe and 175 kilometres (109 mi) north of Jundah in Queensland, Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellshot_Station