• Title
  Rob Hillier advertising images between 1940-1960
• Call number
  PXE 649 (v.6)
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1940-1960
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  52136
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 10 x 9 cm.-30 x 25 cm. - 131 silver gelatin photoprints, b&w
  
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply
• General note
  
  Series on women aircraft fitters for Qantas (Randwick workshop) reproduced in: Empire Airways. Sydney : Qantas Airways. Location number: 656.705/1 Mitchell Library
  Other images included are reproduced in:
  Army. Sydney : Army Magazine. Location number: Q940.950901/2 General Reference Library
  Action : official journal of the National Emergency Services. Sydney : Land Newspaper. Location number: 614.89/2 Mitchell Library
  The heroic image of a woman working on the flying boat Coriolanus (PXE 649 v.6/5) was taken at Rose Bay for Fashion and Society 1 July 1944. ‘In the middle of this area of natural beauty and man-made luxury work twenty-five or so of the self-styled luckiest girls in the world. They are not working as cooks or parlour-maids, for even in Bellevue Hill and Point Piper it is doubtful if you would find twenty-five servants these days. Incredible as it seems, they are repairing aeroplanes – big aeroplanes. In fact, they are working on some of the very biggest of big aeroplanes, for Rose bay is the terminal for Qantas Empire Airways…'
  Digital order no:a866001
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  advertisements
  armed forces
  buildings, structures & establishments
  prostitution
  war workers
  women
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1811483

View Media Files

1.

Show more