Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home is a collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is an incomplete collection of the annual reports of the Sydney Female Mission Home dating from 1873 to 1908. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible to any member of the public via…
This is a photograph of some of the resident cottages at Fantome Island. It shows five small wood-framed huts with tin sheet roofs and shuttered windows, approximately 2 by 3 meters in size. The huts are all built on concrete slabs, and surrounded by sand. There is a large hill in the background.
This is a photograph of buildings on Fantome Island. The photograph was taken from offshore, and shows a red and white church and several other single-storey buildings situated just back from the beach at Fantome island. This photo is part of a collection of photographs of North Queensland taken by Dr Ted Freeman and held…
This is a photograph of the hospital at the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement. It shows a large single-storey cottage-style building with two front-facing verandahs. The building is set back from a road lined with stones. Several people can be seen standing on the verandahs, and another man can be seen standing in gardens to the…
This is a photograph of the Girls’ dormitory at the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement. It shows a wide, single-storey building with open front verandahs. The building is set among palm trees, and there is a road bordered with white stones running in front of it. Two girls or women are walking in front of the…
This is a photograph of the Lock Hospital at Fantome Island. It shows two medium-sized buildings near the beach, with several smaller buildings and sheds nearby. The photograph was taken from gardens on a small hill inland from the hospital, looking towards the beach, with Orpheus island in the background. This photograph was taken by…
This is a copy of a photograph from the collection of the Whitehorse Historical Society, showing the nursery at Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten.
This is a copy of a photograph that appears on p.17 of a publication, “Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten 1926-1976”. It shows the building that was on the site before it was replaced in 1936.
Records of Mogumber Methodist Mission, Methodist Church is a large collection of records held by the State Library of Western Australia that document the history of the Moore River Native Settement, Mogumber Mission, and Mogumber Training Centre. It includes records containing details about the people who lived at Mogumber, as well as administrative records. Access…
Records of Jigsaw is a collection of records from the Victorian branch of the adoption support agency, Jigsaw, held by the University of Melbourne Archives. Jigsaw Victoria, also known as the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association, was established in the 1970s and advocated for people who had been involved in adoptions to be able to access…
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