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• Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: An image of a female pilot poised above the cockpit of a plane. She is dressed in a flying cap, goggles, and wears a shirt and tie underneath her jacket. The plane's wing struts run diagonally across the image.

• Miss Barbara Ward, Assistant Editor of 'The Economist'

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine

  image: A half-length portrait of Barbara Ward sitting with her fingers intertwined and looking to the right.

• Miss Caroline Haslett, CBE : Director of the Women's Electrical Association

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Caroline Haslett, who is wearing a suit jacket and pearl necklace.

• A Hospital Supply Depot

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine 1940

  image: WVS women at work at their sewing machines in a crowded room with large windows, overlooking some trees.

• Sandbag Workers Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: A group of women in dark overalls working in a residential street. There is a large mound of sand on the road that the women are using to fill sandbags; a pile of which lie in the left hand corner of the image. To the left there is a women with a...

• Work on a Weir Pump Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: The interior of a factory full with heavy machinery. In the foreground a woman stands behind engineering equipment, and another woman stands in the background. Both wear overalls and have their hair up in caps.

• Sorting and Flinging Logs Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: In the foreground three women, dressed in dungarees and head scarves, are lifting and manoeuvring logs. Further away, two other women are carrying a log. The foreground is strewn with logs. In the background the logs are stacked in ordered piles.

• Fire Drill

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine 1940

  image: A woman wearing overalls lowers herself to the ground on a rope suspended from a wooden platform. She is supervised by a uniformed man standing at the top of the platform, who holds the other end of the rope. On the ground a crowd of men and women...

• Demolition : Sorting and chipping bricks

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine 1941

  image: A group of women wearing overalls and head scarves clear and clean bricks from a bomb damaged building.

• Tapping

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist)

  image: A side-on view of a female munitions worker sitting at a machine making 2-pounder pom-pom gun shell cases. In the bottom right is a depiction of a pom-pom gun mounted onboard a ship manned by three sailors, who are looking skywards.