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Postcard - Portrait reproduction, Picture Australia, Portrait of Vivian Bullwinkel AO, MBE(1915-200) c.1941, [c. 2000]

  • A6 sized postcard on a white background. Postcard is a colour/sepia toned oval portrait of a woman's head and shoulders wearing an Australian Army Uniform. The portrait has a gold frame, black behind the frame and caption below the background

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Historical information

This postcard was released to celebrate Picture Australia's millionth image - the company no longer exists.
The studio portrait was made in May 1941 in the Mendelssohn, F B & Company, in Melbourne. Enlisted in the AANS in 1941, Vivian Bullwikel embarked for Singapore n September 1941 as a staff nurse with the 2/13th Australian General Hospital (2/13th AGH).

Physical description

Cropped reproduction and framed in a gold oval on black background of Vivian Bullwinkel studio portrait in service dress uniform made by Mendelssohn, F B & Company, in Melbourne, during WW2. Short biography at the back. Small white frame at the bottom "PictureAustralia's millionth image".

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