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27-29 Boomerang Street, Turramurra NSW 2074

The photo shows the front of the house ‘Wongala’, where the Wongala Junior Red Cross Home was located. It was listed on Homehound when the property was for sale in around 2013.

Ardill House – matron and children

This is a copy of an image of children and staff at Our Children’s Home, taken from the City of Canada Bay Heritage Society website.

Ardill House

This is a copy of an image of Ardill House, taken from the City of Canada Bay Heritage Society website. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

People sit in the audience for the national apology to victims of forced adoptions

This is a copy of an image that was published on ABC News in a report about the apology for forced adoptions.

Little boy in cot

This is image was used in the National Museum of Australia’s ‘Inside: life in children’s Homes and institutions’ exhibition. The image was taken at Dalwood Children’s Home at Seaforth.

Stockton Mental Hospital

This image was taken for the Newcastle Morning Herald.

St Alban’s Boys’ Home, Mayfield, Newcastle

This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.

Nun from the order of Sister of the Good Shepherd escorting a girl, Children’s Court Albion Street, Sydney, 25 October, 1963

This is a digital copy of a black and white image from the John Mulligan Photograph Collection, ca. 1960-1976, that was created in 2002 by the National Library of Australia.

Part of the exterior of the Royal Hospital for Women from roadway, Paddington, 15 January, 1964

This is a digital copy of a black and white image from the John Mulligan Photograph Collection, ca. 1960-1976, that was created in 2002 by the National Library of Australia.

Plan Of Sydney With Pyrmont 1836

This section of the Plan of Syndey with Pyrmont shows the location of Carters’ Barracks.