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Duncan Building, Franklin Street
Title : Duncan Building, Franklin Street Duncan Building, Franklin Street
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Source : Davies, Natalia, PRG 925/13/15
Date of creation : 1943
Format : Photograph
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Description :

Photograph of the roof of Duncan Building, Franklin Street, Adelaide, used as a roof spotting post for spotting air raids in Adelaide during World War Two.


This photograph is held in the papers of Natalia Davies, civil defence organiser, who founded the Defence Society in Adelaide in February 1933.
Subjects
Period : 1939-1945
Region : Adelaide city
Further reading :

Beaumont, Joan (ed.) Australia's war, 1939-1945, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1996

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

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