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Weaving class, Weroona State home, Woodford

This is a photograph of boys weaving at Weroona Home. It shows eight boys weaving cloth on table looms, winding warp threads, and weaving a basket. A small display of tartan-style woven cloth and a woven basket have been placed at the front of the room.

State home Weroona, Woodford, dormitory

This is a photograph of a dormitory at Weroona Home. It shows a bedroom containing seven beds, and no other furnishings.

State home Weroona, Woodford, sports room

This is a photograph of boys in the recreation room at Weroona. It shows six boys in a large room playing table tennis, snooker, or checkers.

State home Weroona, Woodford, reading room

This is a photograph showing boys reading books at the Weroona Home. It shows five boys in a large room furnished with a piano, a bookcase, a table and chairs. Most of the boys are reading or looking at books on the book case, and one boy appears to be kneeling in front of a…

State home Weroona, Woodford, school room interior

This is a photograph of boys in a classroom at Weroona Home. It shows 16 boys seated at desks in a classroom, facing a teacher pointing to the board at the front of the room. Another classroom can be seen through a doorway to the right of the photograph.

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.