This is a photograph of the building at 116 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, which was formerly Mission House, the headquarters of the Mission to the Streets and Lanes from around 1957 to around 1972. A number of single mothers were accommodated at Mission House during this period.
This is an image of a building which was formerly the Girls’ Memorial Home (1922-1973). The image was published in the Darebin Heritage Review 2000.
This is a copy of an image that illustrated an article in the Guardian following the release of the Betrayal of Trust report. Caption: ‘ A woman demonstrates outside the Victorian parliament during a rally of hope on Wednesday. The rally coincided with the release of Betrayal of Trust, the report into child abuse.’
This is a copy of an image that was part of the ‘On their own – Britain’s child migrants’ exhibition at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne from October 2011 to May 2012.
This document provides archival search information for past clients of Barwon Child, Youth & Family including the application to access client records. In 2023 this organisation merged with Bethany to form the new organisation, Meli.
These 4 images are of the 4 winter menu options for Pirra Girls’ Home in the Winter of 1970. They were part of the Pirra Children’s Home – General correspondence file (1970-1974) which documented the activities of government and non-government children’s residential care agencies.
This is a copy of an image from the collection of the Australian War Memorial. [From catalogue description:] Melbourne, Vic, 1942-06-10. A nurse entertaining babies on a mattress under a table at the Camberwell Babies Home [Presbyterian Babies’ Home] during an air raid practice.
This is a picture of a watercolour of the Geelong Industrial School.
This is an image of the Presbyterian Sisterhood Home from around 1959. It is a digitisation of a slide that was used by the former Matron Grace Envall in presentations she made about the work of the Sisterhood.
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