Series 05: Photographs of commissioned portraits of RAAF airmen painted by Sheila Hawkins, 1941 / photographed by Sheila Hawkins

PXA 1684

series

1941

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

420823

Photographs - 3 silver gelatin photoprints - 12 x 16 cm. or smaller - Some water damage at edges (1,2)
Photographs - 1 strip of proofs - 3 x 8 cm. - containing 2 proofs. Creased
Textual Records - 2 page handwritten letter - Each page 26 x 20 cm.

1. Sunderland Pilot, DFC, RAAF, by Sheila Hawkins, 1941. Possibly Air Ace Truscott - English?
2. Portrait of DFC Royal Australian Air Force, 1941, by Sheila Hawkins. Air Ace (Rose?)
3. DFC Rose holding portrait by Sheila Hawkins, 1941
4. [Proofs of the 2 portraits] by Sheila Hawkins
5. [Letter explaining the commissioning of the portraits and biographical information about the subjects]

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

"Sport & General Press Agency, Limited, London" -- stamped on reverse (3)