Behind the Glass

One of the challenges of the project was locating photos of the participants and reproducing photos sealed up  in their original picture frames. Captured here is the task of reproducing an image of the project's iconicic 'pin-up' girl, Rita,  from a wartime photo framed behind glass.

New Homes: New Living Arrangements

Peg recounts  moving in with her sister because of a fear of squatters moving into the house when her brother-in law left for the war: http://www.archive.org/details/WomensLivingArrangementsWwiiwilloughbysquatters

While Grace and Rita talk about learning to live together with other women when enlisted at Duntroon, Marge remembers raising two children on her own: "you had to be mother and father," and cooking cakes in a makeshift  kerosene oven in the laundry - in the then new suburb of Revesby:

http://www.archive.org/editxml.php?type=audio&edit_item=RaisingChildrenInTheNewSuburbOfRevesbyWwiiReminiscence

Leichhardt: Shoes, Sixpence Cinema tickets and The Great Depression

To hear Rita travel back to her childhood stomping grounds in Leichhardt and Petersham.http://www.archive.org/details/DepressionYearsInLeichhardtsydneyShoemaking

Rita tracks back up Norton street and  to her father's shoemaking shop in Crystal street. Full of memories of school, the Malborough Picture Theatre and Mum taking action at the Council Chambers during the Great Depression. Click  on :  http://www.archive.org/details/LeichhardtPetershamsydneyLifeC1930

Click here for 'Hard Times on the Track': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NolbgrfF4U8&NR=1