This is a photograph of the Friday Island Quarantine Station and Lazaret, showing a number of white huts and tent-like structures making up the Station. It is from a photograph album of Thursday Island and North Queensland, p22.
This is a copy of an image, showing new hostels being built at Kurrajong and the Kurrajong School Bus.
This is a photograph showing a group of approximately 80 children ranging in age from roughly 5 to 18, accompanied by a woman. The children are posed for the photograph, arranged in four lines in front of a tin building.
This is a copy of a photograph of buildings on the Mornington Island Mission.
This is an image of the Tahmoor Children’s Home at Tahmoor. It shows the sign standing at the front of the property that reads ‘Tahmoor Children’s Home. Dedicated to the health and happiness of children regardless of creed. Supported by Congregational Churches of New South Wales. Sec. Mr A. Brown 42 Stevens St Ermington 6381364″….
From the catalogue of the National Film and Sound Archive: “This is an excerpt from colour home movies made between 1944 and 1948 by Reverend James McCarthy, the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission on Mornington Island. Mornington Island, a remote community in the Gulf of Carpentaria, has been occupied by its traditional owners, the Lardil…
This is a photograph of a Family Group Home run by Kildonan at 36 Moselle Street, Box Hill. It was published by the Presbyterian Social Services Department in a pamphlet titled The Work of Presbyterian Social Services. It shows the front of a single-storey brick house with an asymetrical roof, large windows, and brick front…
This is a photograph of the Kildonan Family Group Home at Main Street, Blackburn. It was published by the Presbyterian Social Services Department in a pamphlet titled The Work of Presbyterian Social Services. It shows the front of a single-storey house with a driveway to the side and young trees planted on the front lawn.
This is a photograph of a dining room at Yasmar Shelter. It shows four six-seater tables set with tablecloth, plates, cups and saucers, and cutlery.
This is a photograph of a carpentry class at Yasmar Shelter. It shows 7 boys and a teacher in a workshop. The boys are at workbenches working on projects, while the teacher points at schematics for a book stand written on the chalkboard.
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