Original caption: Yalata Aboriginal community, 200 km west of Ceduna along the Eyre Highway. People living here used to live around Ooldea, far to the north and were forcibly removed to Yalata in 1952. This included people who had been moved from Maralinga, the site where the British were to conduct nuclear tests in the…
The library description states: The Point McLeay Mission is a group of neat cottages and outbuildings with enclosures of clipped hedges. In the foreground an orchard can be seen. The Mission was founded in 1859 by the Aborigines’ Friends Association but never really prospered due to lack of financial and community support. In 1974 Point…
The photo of Nepabunna Mission is part of the the Mountford-Sheard Collection held at the State Library of South Australia. The library summary states: Huts at Nepabunna Mission Station, Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Mt McKinlay in the background.
The library description states: Children in a classroom at the mission, Swan Reach.
This image shows children from the Girls’ Probationary School. The library description states: Women greeting a senior Salvation Army officer visiting a children’s institution.
The library catalogue includes the description: A class of Aboriginal students and their teacher outside the school at Ernabella Mission.
This image of Ernabella Mission is part of the Charles Duguid collection of photographs of Aboriginal Australians at Ernabella Mission and other locations, ca. 1930-1950.
This image shows children from the Girls’ Probationary School. The library description states: Children of all ages lined up outside a large house where they are visited by four Salvation Army officers.
This image is of 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide which is where the schoolroom of the Destitute Asylum was located. It has sinece become part of the Migration Museum, Adelaide.
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