The State Library of Western Australia’s JS Battye Library of West Australian History Collection contains records of the Slow Learning Children’s Group. This collection is identified by the Ephemera number PR9182. The collection mostly contains brochures that describe the Slow Learning Children’s Group’s services, resource and key events, including fundraising. Access Conditions This collection is…
The State Library of Western Australia’s JS Battye Library of West Australian History Collection contains records of the Activ Foundation. This collection is identified by the Ephemera number PR1370. The collection mostly contains brochures that describe Activ Foundation services, products and key events. Access Conditions This collection is open and accessible by the public. For…
The Senses Foundation Inc Records is a collection of records and photographs from the Royal West Australian Institute for the Blind and its predecessors. It is held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Many of the records relating to people who have been in out…
Methodist Church of Australasia. Dept. of Overseas Missions collection, 1830-1971, 1980 is an aggregated collection of records of the administrative and field activities of the Methodist Church Overseas Missions in the Pacific region, including Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea and Northern Australia and others. The collection includes minutes of various boards and…
Photographs relating to life at Salvation Army children’s homes in Cottesloe and Subiaco is a collection of 40 negatives, 13 copy negatives and 2 photographic prints relating to the Salvation Army children’s homes in Cottesloe (girls) and Subiaco/Nedlands (boys). The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions These photographs are…
Papers of the Country Womens Association WA Incorporated is a collection of letters and information sheets created by the State Executive of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) that is held by the State Library of Western Australia. The collection includes information that may be relevant to people who were sent to CWA hostels when they…
Perth Protestant Orphanage / Perth Anglican Orphanages is a collection of records held on microfilm in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. There are records for: Bishop Hale’s Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children in Perth; Swan Native and Half Caste Mission, Middle Swan; Redhill Industrial School; Perth…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains records of the Perth Girls’ Orphanage Chapel in Western Australia. The Battye Library has created a finding aid (known as a Manuscript Note or MN) to help people to see what information is held in this collection. Please see MN 614. The Chapel collection contains registers from the…
The Archive of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth holds around 1,000 files relating to Former Child Migrants. The collection includes files created by the Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association and the Catholic Migrant Centre. The files may include information from Malta, from Children’s Homes in Britain and the Catholic Homes to which children were…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains a collection of papers from Mrs Irene May Stahl, who, from 1933, was a member of the Child Welfare Department’s Boarding Out Committee for the Victoria Park district. This collection is identified by the manuscript number MN 2315. Names of children who were ‘boarded out’ (placed in care)…
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