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02/20/1947 Letter from Drouin & Letorneau
Letter from Oscar Drouin of the firm Drouin & Letourneau, Québec, to Louis-Philippe Gagné.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-lpg-1947-01-03/1012/thumbnail.jp
Mrs Gleeson pours a beer for a customer at the Drouin Hotel, Drouin, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from caption on label.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "U429/27. Wife of Drouin publican (Mrs. James J. Gleeson) pours beer for customers. A pot like this (11oz.) costs 81/2 d. about half of which goes in excise to Australian government. Australian beer has 8% alcohol - heavier than American beer but about the same as British. Mrs Gleeson has two sons fighting the Jap; says she has never had a customer she could not handle in her 23 years at the Drouin Hotel. Main service ..." --Printed on label.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24206377. Left to right: Mrs. Eileen Gleeson, Bill Croll, Stan Peterson, Jack Hoskins, Ormond Thomas, ?, Cyril Glennon, Frank Venables
Drouin schoolboys playing, Drouin, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Inscriptions:"U429/157" --In pencil; "Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Ave, New York City" --Stamped on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24280499
Drouin schoolboys playing cricket, Drouin, Victoria [1] [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Inscriptions:"U429/160"--In pencil;"Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Ave, New York City" --Stamped on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24280176
Drouin Newsagency, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Inscriptions:"U429/147; Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Ave, New York City"-- In ink and pencil on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24355689
Drouin schoolboys playing cricket, Drouin, Victoria [2] [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Inscriptions:"U429/165" --in pencil; "Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Ave, New York City" --stamped on verso.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24280433
Portrait of Leah Notman, Drouin, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from caption on verso.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; "U429/12. Leah Notman is a Drouin farmers's daughter. She plays the piano at the local dances and helps her mothr with the housework. She has three brothers; no sisters. Her boyfriend drives a big milk truck; she usually goes with him for a drive in the truck on his Saturday afternoon circuit."--Printed on label.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24228782
The choir at the Methodist Church in Drouin, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Inscriptions:"U429/20; Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Ave, New York City"-- In pencil and stamped on verso.; Inscriptions:"U429/20. Voices raised in hymn at the simple service of the Drouin Methodist Church. The town is a good church-going community. There are four churches - Catholic, Church of England, Presbyterian, Methodist. Average Sunday morning congregations total 350- about a third of the population-"--Printed on label; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24358545. Preacher is Humphrey Twigg
Main Street, Drouin, Victoria [2] [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "U429/65. Really the Prince's highway - one of the two main roads linking Sydney and Melbourne - but for a few hundred yards it is still Main Street in the language of Drouin folk. It is busiest on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons (Market days). In foreground, service stationhand puts his car jack under horse-drawn tradesman's cart. ..." --Printed on label..; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24295048
Portrait of June Wellwood, Drouin, Victoria [picture] /
Title devised by cataloguer from caption on verso.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; "U429/11. June Wellwood, 18-year-old clerk at the Drouin branch of the State Savings Bank, is proud of her father, an orchardist who is now a squadron leader (awarded the distinguished Flying Cross) in the Royal Australian Airforce. She has no regular boyfriend; recently won a tennis tournament to raise money for patriotic funds. Her schoolboy brother is learning wool classing."--Printed on label.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24228805
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