Description
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 campaign suffered from the greater attractions of industrial employment and the auxiliaries of the armed forces.
Details
Accession Number
ARTV01061
Artist
Leslie Darrell Ragan
Publisher
Women's Land Army
Measurement
Conservation measurement
Overall: 74 cm x 49.5 cm
Medium
Offset lithograph on paper
Gallery location
Main Bld: World War 2 Gallery, Gallery 3
Credit Line
Transferred from the AWM Research Centre 1979
Copyright
Unlicensed copyright
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