Resilience in Times of Adversity: Contemporary Responses to WW2 in the Blue Mountains 1939-1950 is a Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Expose Program exhibition curated by Vivienne Dadour and running from 17th August to 29th September at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 30 Parke St Katoomba.
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Katoomba Greets You 1939-1950 – Photographic Collage. Vivienne Dadour 2019
A collage of photo’s represented in the exhibition Resilience in Times of Adversity:
Contemporary Responses to WW2 and post WW2 in the Blue Mountains. Photographs
form part of an archive represented in the work Snapshots by Vivienne Dadour.
(Left to right)

• • Unknown woman, Lily Lynn nee: Walter and Anna Tonkin nee: Ankoodinoff,
    Katoomba, c1950 (Courtesy Lynn & Tonkin family archives)
  • Ben Chifley c.1943 (Courtesy Blue Mountains local History Library collection)
  • Gunner Harold Gilbert (Digger) Cooper, Australian Army, katoomba, 1942 (Courtesy
    Aunty Carol Cooper family archives)
  • Small Arms Factory Lithgow c 1940. (Courtesy Small Arms Factory Museum
    Lithgow)
  • Katoomba Greets You, AIF march from Ingleburn to Bathurst, 1940 (Courtesy Blue
    Mountains City Library, Local Studies Collection)
  • Australian Women’s Army Service-Ambulance Drivers, Elsa Wentzel (nee: Mayo), friend, Bathurst, 1942 (Courtesy Mayo family archives)
  • Fehme Joseph ( lebanese original name Ghauulaub) Lithgow, c1950,
    (Courtesy Joseph family collection).

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© Resilience in Times of Adversity, 2019