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Quote this number to access your records: State Library of South Australia Archival Number, OH 201
These records are held by State Library of South Australia.
The Goodwood Orphanage Oral History Series contains seventeen interviews (25 hours and 10 minutes) commissioned by the Libraries Board of SA concerning the experiences of children, nuns and priests living and working at Goodwood Orphanage, also known as St Vincent De Paul Orphanage. Tapes and full transcripts are available for research. Some restrictions apply to individual interviews.
Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records, recordings and transcripts can only be used in the Somerville Reading Room and are not available for borrowing.
Access to some material at the State Library may require written permission from the person or organisation that deposited the records.
Quantity: 27 tapes
This Oral History series also includes associated material, such as 75 photographs, some donated by a former resident, and an 8mm film recording showing footage of staff and former residents at the time of the closure of Goodwood.
Three further interviews held in the JD Somerville collection, OH199, OH73 and OH138 also concern the Orphanage.