This is a digital copy of a carte de visite, or postcard, taken from 1870 to 1875. The Female Orphan School, by that stage, was known as the Protestant Orphan School.
This is a copy of an image used by the State Children Relief Department Report for the year ended 5 April 1914 to illustrate the benefits of boarding out, at a time when the system was the subject of two government inquiries.
This is a copy of an image published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday 18 October 1926. The image shows people at the Halloween Children’s Home garden fete. The original caption said: Scene at garden fete at Strathfield on Saturday in aid of “Halloween” Children’s Home.
The Aborigines Welfare Board managed 19 stations in NSW. This is the signpost for Murrin Bridge Aboriginal Station, and depicts some of the younger residents.
This image shows the existing driveway and entry showing the western wing to what was the Cootamundra Training Home and laterly the Bimbadeen Girls Home.
This is a copy of an image published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday 11 November 1929. The image shows teenage boys with young children at the “Halloween” garden fete. The original caption said: Although considering themselves quite grown up, these boys did not think a raffle for a giant “teddy bear” beaneath their…
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