Collection of Photographs

Collection of Photographs is an archival series held by Tasmanian Archives. It contains photographs that have been donated to Tasmanian Archives from various sources, often with little identification or provenance information. It contains several photos of Tasmanian children’s homes. Many of the photographs in this series have been digitised and are available online.

Access

Open
Many items in this series have been digitised and are available online. Of the items listed below only one was available online at the time of writing.

Records

This series contains the following images of children’s homes:

Photograph – ‘Mount Royal’ Home, Kingston – aerial view of home and surrounds – Church of England Girls Home for children aged 3 to 16 – photo by Ash Besters, Hobart
Date: 1948-1949
Item Number: PH40/1/925
Description: Photograph dates c. 1949 – St Nicholas Cottage was built for the children between 1948 and 1951. Aerial view shows no evidence of construction and therefore pre-dates the cottage on the site.
This image is available online

Photograph – Mangalore – Wybra Hall Children’s Home – view of back of building and part of vegetable garden – 18 June 1980
Item Number: PH40/1/1902

Photograph – Mangalore – Wybra Hall Children’s Home – outbuildings – 18 June 1980
Item Number: PH40/1/1903

Photograph – New Town – St. John’s Avenue and St. John’s Anglican Church, Orphan School
Item Number: PH40/1/2135

Photograph – Risdon Prison Construction – Boys Cells before fencing – construction equipment, fuel drums and workers
Date: 1957-1960
Item Number: PH40/1/2926

Photograph – Risdon Prison Construction – Boys Cells with fencing
Date: 1957-1960
Item Number: PH40/1/2927

Photograph – Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys (later Glenara) – selection of photographs of the boys taken by The Advocate newspaper, Burnie –
Note: This series contains a group of 13 photographs of the Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys/ Glenara. The image titles all begin with the above title, followed by the descriptions listed below. They have been combined here for ease of listing and to reduce repetition.
Date: 1955-1975
Item Numbers: PH40/1/1072 – PH40/1/1084
Titles:

• three boys (toddlers) playing with toys in the sand at the beach
• group of boys with fishing rods at the beach
• group of boys on the rocks at the beach
• group of boys looking at a cockatoo in a cage
• large group of boys on the rocks at the beach
• group of boys peeling potatoes over a large tin dish (tub or bucket)
• group of boys line-fishing off the rocks at the beach
• large group of boys and girls on the rocks at the beach (c1970’s)
• four boys under the shower
• group of boys fishing off the rocks
• boy in a straw hat catching a fish off the rocks (published 29 Dec 1960 page 20)
• three boys in competition tops (?) lying on the grass – athletics (?)
• portrait of a boy in sun hat and overalls holding a fishing rod on the rocks