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Last photograph of John and Elsie Curtin

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1945: The Price of Peace exhibition

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According to Elsie Macleod, her father John Curtin wasn’t well on the day of his 28th wedding anniversary on 21 April 1945 ‘but [the] next day he contacted Mr L.J. Dwyer, a professional photographer in Canberra, and arranged for the latter to take photographs of my parents at The Lodge’ (JCPML00653/280). Leslie Dwyer was a well-known Canberra photographer for many years. He photographed John and Elsie in the garden of the Lodge on 27 April and also took a group photograph of Curtin, Elsie, the housekeeper Jessie Pincombe, and Ray Tracey the driver.

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