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Waratah Cottage

This is a photograph of ‘Waratah’, one of the residential cottages at Mogumber. It shows three Aboriginal girls standing in front of the entrance to a blue fibro cottage. This photo is on page 37 of album 6 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…

Boys’ School

This is a photograph of the newly opened boys school-room at Mogumber. It shows five boys in dark blue uniforms standing around a stack of hay bales at the entrance to a fibro building. This photo is on page 13 of album 7 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore…

Moore River Hospital

This is a photograph of the hospital at Moore River. It shows three adult women, a young child, and a nursing sister standing on the verandah of a medium-sized stone building. This photo is on page 10 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement,…

Kindergarten Dormitory

This is a photograph of the dormitory within the Moore River kindergarten. It shows a long room with over 20 cots lining the walls. There is a woman holding a young Aboriginal child standing at the far end of the room. This photo is on page 103 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation…

Kindergarten Building – Moore River Native Settlement

This is a photograph of the kindergarten building at Moore River Native Settlement in around 1939. It shows a wide single-storey building with two wings and a central verandah. This photo is on page 67 of album 1 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…

Glenugie

This is a copy of a photograph of Glenugie, at 186 Moray Street, New Farm, from the building’s Queensland Heritage Register entry. This building was the site of of Archibald House.

Cranbrook House at West End

This is a copy of a photo showing the building that was the location of the Aboriginal Girls Home from 1899-1906. It was published in an article in the Brisbane Times in 2016.

Elizabeth Fry Retreat, 1952

This is a copy of photographs that were published in a newspaper article about Elizabeth Fry Retreat in October 1952, in which the matron of the institution described sending girls to be solitary confined in darkness in a cellar as punishment. The captions read: “Scribble on the wall of the cellar at Elizabeth Fry Retreat”…

Girls’ exercise yard, Royal Park

This is a photograph that was published in theĀ Herald in October 1952, accompanying an article by Laurence Turner about conditions for girls at Royal Park Depot, the first in his series of articles about “Victoria’s unwanted children”. The caption reads “Below is the exercise yard in the delinquent girls’ section of Royal Park. They used…

‘The Boob’ – 24 July 1936

This is a photograph of ‘The Boob’ at Moore River Native Settlement/Mogumber . ‘The Boob’ was the colloquial name for the gaol or lock-up, where residents, including children, were confined as punishment. The photo shows 10 people standing in front of a medium-sized window-less building made out of corrugated metal sheets and timber. There is…