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Convent of the Good Shepherd, Oakleigh: Chapel and Orchard

The postcard shows the view towards the Chapel and Orchard of the Convent of the Good Shepherd on Castlebar Road, Chadstone.

Former Protestant Orphan Asylum and Common School, Geelong

Protestant Orphan Asylum at 150-220 McCurdy Rd, Fyansford, Greater Geelong City.

Presbyterian Babies’ Home, Melbourne: Wartime air raid practice

Caption reads, ‘Windows of the Presbyterian Babies’ Home made shatterproof by lining them with cot mattresses. The children are sitting quietly on stretchers during air raid practice.’

Three Korean nurses have been studying hospitals, nursing administration and nursing training in Australia.

They are Miss Kim Keum, of the Severance School of Nursing, Seoul; Mrs Lee Kwi Hyung, Director of National University School of Nursing and Miss Hong Young Sook, Chief Nurse at the Korean Red Cross Hospital in Seoul. In Melbourne they spent two weeks at the Presbyterian Babies’ Home, which cares for 50 babies –…

Opening of the Methodist Babies’ Home

This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Monday 9 December 1929. The image shows the outside of the Methodist Babies’ Home and the crowds on its opening day. The original caption reads, ‘The new Methodist Babies’ Home, on a fine site overlooking the river at South Yarra was opened on…

Brother Matthew O’Donnell

Summary: Whole-length, to right, wearing white lab coat standing in front of Churinga with papers in his hands.

The Hawthorn Path

[Depicts a painting of the Gulliver’s farm at Cheltenham which in 1922 was bought by Methodist Homes. By the 1950s the property was bought by the Catholic Church to eventually become the boys’ home run by the St John of God Brothers. After 1966, the land was sold and later became the Southland shopping centre.]

Methodist Babies’ Home

This image was published in The Argus on 4 April 1941 in an article titled ‘The Methodist Babies’ Home’. The caption reads, ‘The Methodist Babies’ Home at South Yarra is not faced with the suburban housewives’ problem of obtaining a supply of milk during the strike. The Transport Workers’ Union is giving its services free…

Berry Street Foundling Hospital

This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Tuesday 19 December 1922. The image shows children at a party. The original caption reads, ‘Each year at about Christmas time the boarded-out children and their fostermothers are entertained at the Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home Berry Street, East Melbourne. There was a…

Foundlings or not, all are well cared for

This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Friday 27 July 1923. The image shows babies from The Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home. The original caption reads, ‘Scenes at the home on the occasion of the annual meeting yesterday are depicted.’