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The School

This is a photo of the schoolhouse and church at Moore River Native Settlement. It shows a timber building with a steep pitched roof and crucifixes at each end. There are 12 children visibly standing at the front of the building. This photo is on page 15 of album 1 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation…

The residents at the Moore River Settlement

This is a group photograph of the residents and staff at Moore River Native Settlement. It shows over 100 adults and children posed in front of the dining hall at the Moore River. This photo is on page 91 of album 2 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River…

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.