‘Foundling Home’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows a group of young children and babies in front of the St Vincent’s Foundling Home. An approximate date range of 1914 to 1950s has been given,…
‘Dancing classes’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls at a dress rehearsal in the hall at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. An approximate date range of 1920s to 1960s has been given.
‘Ballet lesson’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls in the hall at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. An approximate date range of 1920s to 1960s has been given, based on the girls’ pinafores.
‘Sing song’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls gathered around a piano in the hall at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. An approximate date range of 1920s to 1960s has been given, based…
‘Classroom’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows students in the St. Maria Goretti School at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. The school is known to have been on site in 1953.
‘Guard of Honour Kings Park’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls from the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage awaiting a royal procession, which may have been a visit by the Duke and Duchess of…
‘St Joseph’s Guard of Honour Kings Park’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls and a sister from the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage awaiting a royal procession, which may have been a visit by…
‘Subiaco Boy’s Home’ is a digital copy of two photographs mounted on a single piece of paper, held in the West Subiaco Boy’s Home closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. Both images have handwritten captions. The first, a photograph of the front of the Salvation Army Boy’s Home, Nedlands reads,…
‘Nedlands Boy’s Home (West Subiaco)’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph mounted on a single piece of paper, held in the West Subiaco Boy’s Home closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. A handwritten caption gives the image its title. A small boy can be seen in the photograph.
This image was originally titled “Seaforth Boy’s Home circa 1948”, and was from the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. The description of the photo included the information: “the typed caption reads in part, ‘Seaforth Boy’s Home – circa 1948 I counted 73 boys + driver.’” and that the photo was originally called “Young Australians”. In…
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