The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. THREE VOLUNTARY RED CROSS WORKERS ARE SEEN, LEFT TO RIGHT:- MRS. A. ROBINSON, MRS. R. B. MCMILLAN AND MRS. C. L. KIMPTON AT WORK IN THE PAPIER MACHE SECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. AFTER THE PAPER AND PASTE HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO THOROUGHLY DRY, WHICH IN SOME CASES TAKES FROM TWO TO FOUR WEEKS, THE ARTICLE IS THEN SANDPAPERED TO REMOVE ROUGH EDGES. IT IS ON THIS OPERATION THAT THE LADIES ARE ENGAGED.
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. WOODEN AND CONCRETE DISCS ARE USED AS A FOUNDATION FOR THE PAPIER MACHE WORK CARRIED OUT BY VOLUNTARY WORKERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS TWO
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. A HAPPY GROUP OF VOLUNTARY WORKERS IN THE PAPIER MACHE SECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. NOTE THE NEWSPAPERS THAT ARE USED TO FORM THE ARTICLE. THE INTENSIVE WOR
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. LARGE QUANTITIES OF NEWSPAPERS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPIER MACHE, AND HERE IN THE PAPIER MACHE SECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY WE SEE TWO VETERA
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. MISS THELMA CRAWFORD, A WARDEN OF THE VOLUNTARY WORKERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, IS SEEN MAKING THE SPECIAL PASTE MIXTURE THAT IS USED THROUGHOUT THE PAPIER MAC
MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-05-14. THE LATEST TYPE OF WORK THAT IS BEING DEVELOPED BY THE PAPIER MACHE SECTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY IS THE MAKING OF PAPIER MACHE SURGICAL MODELS OF INJURIES TH
Mrs Palmer and helper fixing last layers of paper to a papier-mache washbasin at Red Cross Rooms in Oxford Street.
