This is a sketch of “Leal House” on Commercial Road in Prahran. It shows a large two-storey stone house with gardens in front. Leal House housed the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institute from 1864 to 1866, and the Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind from 1866 to 1868. No date was provided with this…
This document contains photographs of the site of the Lysterfield Boys’ Farm, also known as the Church of England Boys’ Society Training Farm, as well as signage at the site. The photographs of the site show a small section of wall and a domed-top well, which are all that remain of the farm house. The…
The film “A Home For Danny” was produced for the Tasmanian Department of Social Welfare in 1966. The aim of the film was to encourage people to become foster parents. The film shows the story of a young boy, “Danny”, who is a ward of the state living at Malmesbury Receiving Home in Hobart. It…
This is an image taken at the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind in Melbourne. It shows approximately 13 children and young women seated around a table knitting. This image is part of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Collection at Museums Victoria.
This is an image of children in a classroom at the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Melbourne. It shows approximately 20 children seated at desks in a classroom There is a woman seated immediately in front of some of the children holding an open book in her lap, and a man standing at a…
This is an image of the Ministering Children’s League Convalescent Home at St Leonards, Tasmania. It shows a small group of women and children standing on the verandah of the large two-storey home. Another person can be seen looking out of an upstairs window. This image was published in The Weekly Courier in September 1906,…
This is an image of the Victoria Convalescent Home at Lindisfarne, Tasmania. It shows a large two-storey house with outbuildings surrounded by gardens, with bushland in the background. A woman can be seen on the upstairs verandah.
This is an image of the six commissioners of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse with Dr Marie-Louise Ayers (centre), displaying the Message to Australia book. This image was published on the Royal Commission’s website.
This is an image of the published Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It shows all 17 volumes of the final report. This image was published on the Royal Commission’s website.
This image of the the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind shows a large, three-storey bluestone building with a central tower and two-storey wings on either side. In front of the building are gardens, lawns and trees. This image is part of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Collection at Museums Victoria.
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