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Milking machine: sketch
Title : Milking machine: sketch Milking machine: sketch
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Creator : Taylor, Frances
Source : Taylor, Frances Roberta, PRG 596/2
Date of creation : ca. 1946
Format : Artwork
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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A sketch of a milking machine done by Frances Taylor (nee Harvie) while working as a Land Army girl. Date approximately 1946.

The Australian Women's Land Army was formed in 1942 in response to the acute shortage of rural workers. Recruits were required to be British subjects or immigrants from Allied nations and to be between 18 and 50 years of age.

Some farmers expressed initial skepticism about the prospects of farm work done by women with little experience on the land, but many Women's Land Army workers earned respect for their contributions.


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Related names :

Australian Women's Land Army

Frances Roberta Taylor

Period : 1939-1945
Place : Australia
Further reading :

Bolt, Andrew Our home front 1939-1945, Melbourne: Wilkinson Books, c1995

Clark, Rosemary The home front: life in Australia during World War II, Melbourne: Australia Post, 1991

The Home front family album: remembering Australia 1939-1945, introduction by Nancy Keesing, Sydney: Weldon, 1991

McKernan, Michael All in!: Australia during the second world war, Melbourne, Vic.: Nelson, 1983

Scott, Jean Girls with grit: memories of the Australian Women's Land Army St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1995

Thanks girls and goodbye!: the story of the Australian Women's Land Army 1942-45 edited by Sue Hardisty Ringwood, Vic.: Viking O'Neil, 1990

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