The library description states: A woman, possibly a doctor of the South Australian Babies’ Home holding a very young child, she stands by several children’s cots. Location is possibly the Babies’ Home at Gawler Terrace, Walkerville where the Matron in charge was Miss A.T.C. McGahey.
The ‘Blue Dormitory’ at the former Seaforth Home, Somerton Park.
This image shows the old laundry bins from Seaforth Home, Somerton Park.
This image shows the former Seaforth Home, Somerton Park, after the building became Patch Theatre Centre.
The library description states: Interior view of a ward for newly born babies at the ‘Mareeba’ Babies Hospital.
This image shows the building that Barton Vale Girls’ Home operated in from 1922. The library description states: ENFIELD: ‘Barton Vale’, the home of the Bowman family.
This image shows the building that house Redruth Girls’ Reformatory between 1897 and 1922. The library description states: Redruth Gaol, Burra was erected in 1856 and was the first gaol in South Australia outside of Adelaide. It cost 3200 pounds. It was reopened in 1897 as a girls reformatory after the prisoners were transferred to…
The library description states: Nurses, with their small charges, pose for the photographer on the balcony of Mareeba Hospital, Woodville Park, in October 1921. Previously, it had been a convalescent hospital for soldiers, but in August, 1917, it formally became the Mareeba Babies Hospital. Used as a part-time training hospital for nurses, it was extended…
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