Keep the farms going while the men are fighting Accession Number: ARTV05283

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Depicts members of the Women's Land Army harvesting corn or wheat. A woman in the top left corner of the image wearing a khaki hat urges people to 'Keep the farms going while the men are fighting'. Beneath her at the bottom right of the image, a young, enthusiastic woman in a khaki uniform is threshing or tossing hay. The title runs along the bottom of the poster in dark blue ink. An appeal from the Australian Women's Land Army, established in July 1942 under the auspices of the Director-General of Manpower. Its members took on continuous rural work, such as fruit, vegetable and cotton growing, dairying and poultry farming. The Land Army capaign suffered from the greater attractions of industrial employment and the auxiliaries of the armed forces.

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Accession Number
ARTV05283
Artist
Leslie Darrell Ragan
Publisher
Women's Land Army
Printer
H & G Pty Ltd
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Measurement
Sheet: 35.8 cm x 23.8 cm
Medium
offset lithograph on paper
Date Made
c. 1942
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Transferred from the AWM Research Centre 1979
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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