The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Vic. c. 1944. Three tram conductresses walk together down a road carrying their ticket and money bags. This was an avenue in which women were helping to relieve manpower shortages. (This image appears on page 253 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)
c. 1944. Women serve customers from behind the counter in a butcher's shop. Note the piles of meat on paper bags at the end of the counter. Manpower shortages had rendered it necessary for women in so
c. 1943. A female postal employee with a postal bag over her arm checks an address against a letter she is holding. Many jobs are now available to women due to manpower shortages with so many men in t
c. 1944. Women operate machinery (?mechanical loom) in a spinning mill. (This image appears on page 276 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)
c. 1944. Women in a store check materials used in the construction of aircraft. (This image appears on page 235 of the album presented to Dr Edith Summerskill housed in the AWM Archive Store)
Vic. c. 1944. A policewoman with the Victorian Police Force tightens the nuts on the wheel of a car. Policewomen were engaged in clerical and lighter work in the Department at this time of manpower sh
Doncaster, Vic. c. 1944. Two young women on school holidays pick peaches from a tree and prepare to put them in a fruit box modified for carrying. (This image appears on page 275 of the album presente
