Please contact a Librarian at State Library of New South Wales:
Postal address: 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: (02) 9273 1414
Email: library@sl.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/ask-librarian
Quote this number to access your records: State Library of New South Wales Reference Code, 1001262
These records are held by State Library of New South Wales (1827 - current).
The Archives of the Australian Red Cross Society, New South Wales Division, 1914-2014, is a collection at the State Library of New South Wales. These records were donated to the State Library in 2014, as part of the centenary of the Australian Red Cross Society’s ‘gift to the nation’, donating its archives and heritage collections to public institutions around Australia. The collection includes committee minutes and other divisional records, branch records, photographs, art works, posters, clippings, objects, ephemera and publications. There are records relating to children’s Homes run by the Junior Red Cross in New South Wales.
Open access
There are records in this collection relating to Junior Red Cross children’s Homes in New South Wales.
For example, File 27 (Call number PXE 1692/vol.27) contains photographs relating to Eleanor Mackinnon Home, Wongala and Berida Junior Red Cross Homes.
File 28 (Call number PXE 1692/vol.28) contains photographs relating to Eleanor Mackinnon Boys’ Home in Cronulla.
File 29 (Call number PXE 1692/vol.29) contains photographs relating to Eleanor Mackinnon and Glen Mervyn Red Cross Homes.
File 59 (Call number PXE 1692/vol.59) contains photographs relating to Berida Junior Red Cross Home.
File 60 (Call number PXE 1692/vol.60) contains photographs relating to Junior Red Cross Homes, staff and volunteers.
File 68 (Call Number SLIDES 319/vol.1) contains images of Junior Red Cross children’s Homes throughout New South Wales.