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Catholic Mission School

The description states: Motorcycle party and pupils of Arltunga Catholic Mission School.

Boys quarters at Methodist mission on Croker Island in the Northern Territory 1958

This image shows the boys’ living quarters at the Croker Island Methodist Mission.

Retta Dixon Homes, Darwin- Guests at opening ceremony? [editor’s note: original caption]

Although this photo at the NAA is listed as being from 1947 this picture in fact shows guests at the opening ceremony for the new Retta Dixon Home in 1961. The guests appear to be in front of one of the new cotttage homes.

Album of anthropological photographs – Aboriginal Inquiry Central and North Australia – J.W. Bleakley – Millingimbi Mission, Crocodile Islands (Methodist) – Mission House – (Page 46)

This image shows the Mission house at Millingimbi Methodist Mission on the Crocodile Islands. It is not certain whether or not this building would have housed children in care on the Mission.

School house, Hermannsburg Mission, Finke River, Northern Territory, 1947 [picture]

This image shows the school house at the Lutheran Hermannsburg Mission on the Finke River.

Another view of the ‘Bungalow’

This image shows The Bungalow in Alice Springs during an inspection by Jim Baker and H.G. Nelson (Northern Territory administrative staff member).

Aboriginal people and torres strait islander peoples – Reserves, missions and homeland centres – Oenpelli Mission (aerial of lake and hills), Arnhem Land

This image gives an aerial view of the Oenpelli Mission, established by the Church of England in 1925.

Christmas party at Umbakumba Aboriginal Settlement on Groote Eylandt organised by the Assistant Superintendent Smith and Mrs Smith. Photo 16.

This image shows children at Umbakumba Settlement on Groote Eylandt during a Christmas party.

Mission house

This image shows the Mission house at Goulburn Island Methodist Mission. It is not certain whether or not this building would have housed children in care on the Mission. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.