This image was included in The Adelaide Chronicle on Thursday 14 December 1939, it relates to Finniss Springs Mission. The caption stated: ‘Aboriginal Mission – One of the latest missions to educate aboriginal children is the United Aborigines’ School, Finniss Springs Station. It is situated about 50 miles nort-west of Marree. This picture shows a…
The library description states: Children sitting at desks in a classroom at Point McLeay Day School.
The library description states: Point Pearce Mission Station showing a row of cottages opposite a row of huts. In 1868 Point Pearce Mission was established by the Moravian missionary Reverend W Julius Kuhn as an Aboriginal settlement for the Narungga people. After ten years the mission was largely self sufficient but the conditions were hard…
The library description states: Packing up to move to Gerard.
Original caption: Yalata Aboriginal community, 200 km west of Ceduna along the Eyre Highway. People living here used to live around Ooldea, far to the north and were forcibly removed to Yalata in 1952. This included people who had been moved from Maralinga, the site where the British were to conduct nuclear tests in the…
The library description states: The Point McLeay Mission is a group of neat cottages and outbuildings with enclosures of clipped hedges. In the foreground an orchard can be seen. The Mission was founded in 1859 by the Aborigines’ Friends Association but never really prospered due to lack of financial and community support. In 1974 Point…
The photo of Nepabunna Mission is part of the the Mountford-Sheard Collection held at the State Library of South Australia. The library summary states: Huts at Nepabunna Mission Station, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Mt McKinlay in the background.
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