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Main street looking towards Clarkes house

This is a photograph of the main street at Mogumber. It shows a wide dirt street with weatherboard and fibro cottages on either side, shaded by large trees. This photo is on page 41 of album 6 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is held…

Waratah Cottage

This is a photograph of ‘Waratah’, one of the residential cottages at Mogumber. It shows three Aboriginal girls standing in front of the entrance to a blue fibro cottage. This photo is on page 37 of album 6 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…

Boys’ School

This is a photograph of the newly opened boys school-room at Mogumber. It shows five boys in dark blue uniforms standing around a stack of hay bales at the entrance to a fibro building. This photo is on page 13 of album 7 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore…

Royal Commission on State Children’s Department and Charities Department, State of Western Australia

A Royal Commission was appointed to examine the State Children Department and Charities Department, and report on “the working and management thereof, and any improvements which ought to be made in such working and management” (Final Report, Royal Commission on State Children’s Department and Charities Department, p.2). The commission held 42 sittings and examined 77…

Moore River Hospital

This is a photograph of the hospital at Moore River. It shows three adult women, a young child, and a nursing sister standing on the verandah of a medium-sized stone building. This photo is on page 10 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement,…

Kindergarten Dormitory

This is a photograph of the dormitory within the Moore River kindergarten. It shows a long room with over 20 cots lining the walls. There is a woman holding a young Aboriginal child standing at the far end of the room. This photo is on page 103 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation…

Kindergarten Building – Moore River Native Settlement

This is a photograph of the kindergarten building at Moore River Native Settlement in around 1939. It shows a wide single-storey building with two wings and a central verandah. This photo is on page 67 of album 1 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…

Glenugie

This is a copy of a photograph of Glenugie, at 186 Moray Street, New Farm, from the building’s Queensland Heritage Register entry. This building was the site of of Archibald House.

Cranbrook House at West End

This is a copy of a photo showing the building that was the location of the Aboriginal Girls Home from 1899-1906. It was published in an article in the Brisbane Times in 2016.

Elizabeth Fry Retreat, 1952

This is a copy of photographs that were published in a newspaper article about Elizabeth Fry Retreat in October 1952, in which the matron of the institution described sending girls to be solitary confined in darkness in a cellar as punishment. The captions read: “Scribble on the wall of the cellar at Elizabeth Fry Retreat”…