The Australian Women's Register

Drawings – 21 ink, watercolour & crayon drawings ; 48 x 76 cm. or smaller 1. ‘Enlist here join the Navy’ / Begg 2. ‘It’s my wife, nurse – she doesn’t like me being alone with strange women’ / Jean Cullen 3. ‘-and the judges have called for a photo’ / Les Dixon 4. ‘Caution curve. I told you so!’ / John Endean 5.’ Tell them to repeat the last couple of words’ / John Endean 6. ‘Could I talk to you a moment, there’s something I want to get off my chest’ / John Endean 7. ‘One day John Bugsby, you’ll carry your silly suspicions too far’ / M. Horseman 8. ‘New hand – Get back to bed, sir, you’re walking in your sleep’ / J. Jonsson 9. ‘There’s no need for me to go home early, my husband doesn’t eat breakfast’ / Lahm 10. ‘Look, Jim can you do this?’ / Emile Mercier 11. ‘All men are the same to me. It’s a wonder your husband stands it’ / Morrison 12. ‘Boss: business is bad but I suppose a man can’t have everything’ / Quinlan ’34 13. ‘You should consider yourself lucky – Mr Hallstrom would have given my 75 for it’ / Norm Rice 14. ‘Oh no! We couldn’t give you four years to pay – Why the furniture won’t last that long!’ / Norm Rice 15. ‘Hullo, Rhubarb! What are you doing these days?…’ / Jim Russell 16. ‘Bet you ten bob the bosses’ new secretary gets the bullet this week’ / Albert Smith 17. ‘Jus’ put yerself in my shoes, lady, an’ yer won’t ‘ave a care in the world’ / Unk White 18. ‘Hey! Who th’ell yer shovin” / Unk White 19. ‘Now then, that’s just wher you put your foot in it’ / Unk White 20. ‘Maisie, I insist you take this! Remember what happened last time you went for a car ride!’ / [Callett? / Hallett?] 21. [Caricature of ‘Mo’] 22-24. ‘Syb! If you and me had boyfriends…’ / [untitled artist, possibly Morrison?] Plus two copies of ‘Smith’s Weekly’ (final edition), 28 October 1950, signed by cartoonists who worked on the newspaper. Includes signatures of artists featured in this collection