TAGGED: 1940s
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Born in the Sun shows the development of the dried fruits industry at Mildura from the time of Deakin’s proposed irrigation legislation, and highlights the part irrigation has played.

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Australia's 'Tin Pan Alley' was born in 1942 with a burst of patriotic wartime songwriting.

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‘Digger’ was one of several wartime patriotic songs written and recorded by prolific singer-songwriter Jack Lumsdaine, and was released midw

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Words, music and sung by Jack Davey with Fred McIntosh and His Sextette.

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Peter Dawson sings 'V for Victory' with orchestral backing.

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Composed and performed by Jack Davey.

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Four boxed images of the characters are represented on the far left, title in the centre. Image of galloping horses and man on horseback at the top and a woman and man embracing below.

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 Blue and white text only. Header reads: 'Your passport to a great adventure'. Includes list of main cast.

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Italian daybill for Sons of Matthew ('Terra di Giganti'). Image in the foreground is of a woman in a red shirt tending an injured man with another man in a green shirt looking on.