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.
This is a scanned copy of a photo printed in The Horizon’s commemoration of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild 50 year jubilee celebrations from October 1966. This image is undated, the date included is an estimate.
This photo of the Melbourne Ragged Boy’s Home and Mission is of the 159 – 161 Latrobe Street building. The image is in an excerpt from a letterhead that CLAN holds.
This photograph was originally published in The Weekly Times on 2 December 1899, p.10. This copy of the photograph was taken from Sleigh’s article ‘For the Sake of Effect’: Youth on Display and the Politics of Performance p.71.13.
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