The Records of the Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children (including the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children) are held by the successor organisation, NextSense. The historical records held on site at NextSense include annual reports…
The Records of the Antonian Institute for Children and Antonian Children’s Home were transferred from the custody of the Daughters of Divine Zeal to the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing in 2017. The collection comprises register books, photographs and news clippings.
The Rosary Convent, Waratah – Archives, is a collection of records held by the University of Newcastle Special Collections created by the Rosary Convent about the School for Deaf Girls, Waratah. The collection is primarily administrative and relates to the establishment and running of the School. Records include correspondence and letters of support, lesson books…
The Royal Women’s Hospital holds patient records which can be accessed by a request using the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Records relating to adoptions of babies born at the Hospital were transferred to the Victorian government in 1987, when the Women’s ceased to be an approved adoption agency. Contact Adoption Services to apply for…
The Children’s Homes Files collection is a collection of records about Western Australian Salvation Army-run Homes, now held by the Salvation Army Historical Records Department. The files include documents, photographs, newspaper articles and correspondence relating to children’s Homes run by the Salvation Army in WA. There are no personal records held in this series but…
These are admission and discharge registers created by Myee and held by Museums of History NSW (State Archives). They contain basic information about children admitted to Myee, such as name and date of admission/discharge. There is a large gap in the dates of the registers, between 1945 and 1976. Access Conditions Access to these records…
The Archive of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists houses over 20,000 linear feet of records documenting the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. The collection is managed by the Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research of the church. The collection includes items such as minutes, correspondence, newsletters, books, pamphlets, audio-visual material, photographs,…
Forest River Mission records is a collection of records held by the State Library of Western Australia. The collection includes a range of records relating to the running of the Forest River Mission and the people who lived there, including attendance registers, admission and discharge records, baptism, marriage, and death records. These records are not…
The King Edward Memorial Hospital holds records of its activities from 1916 onwards. The type and quantity of records varies depending on the year and records available. Access conditions An Access to Health Information & Freedom of Information form must be completed to request records. If requesting on behalf of someone else, written authorisation must…
Uniting Photographs Collection [Methodist and Presbyterian Babies’ Homes] is a collection of around 6,000 photographs, donated to Uniting by former mothercraft trainees who worked at the Methodist and Presbyterian Babies’ Homes. The photographs are of named babies and young children. The majority of the images are from the 1960s and 1970s. Access Conditions Access is…
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