Woman nailing up blanket for blackout
This woman takes a precarious perch (and in high heels) to nail up a blanket so that her home will show no lights in the event of an air raid, while her daughter looks on. As enemy aircraft would use the lights of a city at night to guide them to their targets, blackouts were an important part of civil defence.
Photographer unknown, c.1942
Accession number: H99.201/4013
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection. Gift of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 1976.
