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Child Guidance Clinic

This is a digital copy of a photograph from an album collected by Child Welfare Department officers in the late 1940s. From the collection of Leonie Knapman.

Court scene Ashfield Children’s Court Yasmar

This is a digital copy of a photograph from an album collected by Child Welfare Department officers in the late 1940s. From the collection of Leonie Knapman.

Anglewood Special School: Yean Cottage

This is a digital copy of a photograph from an album collected by Child Welfare Department officers in the late 1940s. From the collection of Leonie Knapman.

Home for Mothers and Babies, Queen’s-Street Croydon

This is a digital copy of a picture that appeared in the State Children Relief Board Report for the year ended 5 April, 1912.

“Cicada” – Home for Mothers and Babies, Croydon

This is a digital copy of a picture that appeared in the State Children Relief Board Report for the year ended 5 April, 1912.

“Quipolli” the girls’ home at Leura

This is a copy of an image published in The Australian Women’s Weekly on Saturday 2 September 1933. The image shows the building of the Quipolli Children’s Home and was included in the article Where children receive their natural heritage.

International Women’s Day, 1974. Women’s liberationists storm the roof at the Bidura Shelter for Girls in Glebe

This image was contributed to The Dictionary of Sydney by the Australian History Museum at Macquarie University.