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State home, Weroona, school room exterior

This is a photograph of the schoolhouse at Weroona Home. It shows a timber cottage surrounded by bushland, with a path leading up to the front door.

Child Welfare Farm Home for Boys, Mittagong – Turner Home classroom

This is a photograph of boys in a classroom at Turner Cottage, Mittagong. It shows approximately 20 boys and two staff members in two classrooms which are joined by a sliding door. Most of the boys are seated at desks in the front classroom, writing in notebooks. Four boys are in the rear classroom sitting…

Turner Cottage – dormitory

This is a photograph of a dormitory at Turner Cottage, Mittagong. It shows a large bedroom filled with 12 beds in rows. There is no other furniture in the room. All beds have ‘Turner Cottage’ embroidered on the corner of the pillowcase.

Tresillian Home, Willoughby

This is a photograph of the Tresillian North Home, Willoughby. It shows two babies and two nurses standing in the front garden of the large, two-storey white-rendered house.

Tresillian Home, Willoughby – A nursery

This is a photograph of babies being bathed at the Tresillian North Home, Willoughby. It shows two babies with nurses, one being washed in a small basin, the other being dried and wrapped on a bench.

Tresillian Home, Willoughby – Open air verandah

This is a photograph of the nursery on the open air verandah at the Tresillian North Home, Willoughby. It shows three bassinets with small fabric screens positioned in front of large windows in a large otherwise empty room.

Tresillian, Home, Willoughby – Cots in open air on lawn

This is a photograph taken at the Tresillian Home, Petersham. It shows a row of covered bassinets arranged in the garden in front of the house, with nurses standing beside them.

Tresillian Home, Petersham

This is a photograph taken at the Tresillian Home, Petersham. It shows a row of covered bassinets arranged outside in the garden, with babies being held or attended to by nures, A toddler is sitting in a chair in front of the row of bassinets.

A typical ward, Tresillian Home, Petersham

This is a photograph of one of the wards for mothers staying at the Tresillian Home, Petersham. It shows a small room with two beds, and a table with scales at the foot of one bed.

Main entrance, Tresillian Home, Petersham

This is a photograph of the front of the Tresillian Home, Petersham. It shows two nurses in white uniforms standing at the entrance to an ornate two-storey house with palm trees in the front yard.