Suburban housewives in air raid shelter
Early in the war, it was feared that Australian cities such as Melbourne and Sydney would come under attack from air-raids, and many suburban householders dug shelters in their backyards. These women are practising for the cameras, as the raids themselves never came.
Photographer unknown, c.1942
Accession number: H99.201/3736
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection. Gift of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 1976.
