‘Ballet lesson’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls in the hall at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. An approximate date range of 1920s to 1960s has been given, based on the girls’ pinafores.
‘Sing song’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls gathered around a piano in the hall at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. An approximate date range of 1920s to 1960s has been given, based…
‘Classroom’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows students in the St. Maria Goretti School at the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage. The school is known to have been on site in 1953.
‘Guard of Honour Kings Park’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls from the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage awaiting a royal procession, which may have been a visit by the Duke and Duchess of…
‘St Joseph’s Guard of Honour Kings Park’ is a digital copy of an undated photograph from the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea Archives and Heritage Centre. It shows girls and a sister from the St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage awaiting a royal procession, which may have been a visit by…
‘Second Salvation Army Rescue Home’ is a digital copy of four photographs held in the Summer St. Rescue Home closed social work. The images show the first (Claisebrook Road) and second (Summers Street) locations of the Salvation Army Home for Neglected Girls. A caption also confirms that the Claisebrook Road house was demolished in 2007.
‘Summer St Rescue Home 1895’ is a digital copy of a photocopied map of East Perth in 1900 that is held in the Summer St. Rescue Home closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. A handwritten, highlighted note shows the location of the Salvation Army Home for Neglected Girls, or ‘Rescue…
‘Subiaco Boy’s Home’ is a digital copy of two photographs mounted on a single piece of paper, held in the West Subiaco Boy’s Home closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. Both images have handwritten captions. The first, a photograph of the front of the Salvation Army Boy’s Home, Nedlands reads,…
‘West Subiaco W.A. 1920’ is a digital copy of a page photocopied from the Salvation Army’s 1921 publication Property Souvenir Australia, and mounted on a single piece of paper held in the West Subiaco Boy’s Home closed social work file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. There are two images: a view of the…
‘General instructions’ is a digital image of a photocopied item that is held in the Collie Estate child homes closed file at the Salvation Army Heritage Museum WA. The item gives instructions about how to discipline children in accordance with ‘State Children Regulations’. A handwritten caption in the file indicates that the instructions are an…
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