This minute book of the Junior Red Cross Home is a repaired notebook with types minutes pasted in. The minute book includes minutes of the Junior Red Cross Home Admission Committee. These minutes give names of children admitted, brief details regarding their situation and decisions made by the committee regarding them. Details are recorded under…
The Admission Registers from the Junior Red Cross Homes are two separate registers. One register is a large hard-cover landscape volume which spans the dates from 1933 to 1958. The other register is a hard-cover A4 sized volume which dates from 1961 to 1968. There are no records from 1958 to 1961. Both admission reigsters…
This is an index to correspondence files of Colonial Surgeon’s Office and successor agencies, GRG 78/1. A preliminary survey located one reference to correspondence related to Estcourt House dated 1952 and a tabbed section titled Mareeba Babies Hospital. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held…
This series comprises correspondence files of the Colonial Surgeon’s office and its successors, including the Hospitals Department. The correspondence contains little information about patients, however it does include correspondence relating to the lunatic asylums and mental hostpials, and it may include correspondence related to Estcourt House and Mareeba Babies Hospital. Access Conditions A Research Centre…
This series comprises the visitors’ book maintained at Estcourt House. Gives date, name, address, and remarks. Most visitors are official. Some may be parents of patients. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating to children in…
The State Library holds a collection of 27 photographs relating to the UAM mission and children’s home at Oodnadatta, held under the subject heading ‘Oodnadatta Mission (S Aust)’. These are held within the ‘Oodnadatta Collection’ which comprises 304 images. Mission photographs date mostly from 1949 and were placed in the Mortlock Library by missionaries, Mr…
SA Places and Events [Motion Picture] is a black and white silent cine film taken by Hubert A Gerard available on VHS video. It includes footage taken at Colebrook Home. Access Conditions No restrictions on access. Records The catalogue of the State Library of South Australia contains this description of the film: Family gathering with…
Reports appearing in Parliamentary Papers include summaries of developments at missions, stations and homes where Aboriginal people, under the control of the government, were living. Each report includes a section on the United Aborigines Mission with information about Colebrook Home and Gerard Mission. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts…
Faith Thomas [Photographs] is an archival collection at the State Library of South Australia. It comprises 4 albums of photographs compiled by Sisters Hyde and Rutter, former matrons of Colebrook Home, and bequeathed to Faith Thomas. Faith Thomas was born in 1933 in the Nepabunna Mission and later lived in the Colebrook Home and Quorn….
Records of the Aborigines’ Friends’ Association is an archival series at the State Library of South Australia (Archival number SRG139). It comprises records including correspondence, minutes, reports and financial records. Some of the records relate to missions and institutions, including Point McLeay Mission Station, Colebrook Home and Ooldea Mission. Access Conditions Researchers can have access…