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Tasmania - Photos Details
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Tresca boys trying to catch a frog, 1958, courtesy of National Archives of Australia.
- Title
- Tresca boys trying to catch a frog
- Description
[Caption taken from the National Archives of Australia Recordsearch] Immigration - Child migration schemes - The Fairbridge Society has converted "Tresca", Exeter, Tasmania, into a home for children from Britain. The new home is for children from broken homes, parentless children, or children with only one parent unable to care for them. [Two boys] try their luck in a billabong near their new home. They were trying to catch a frog, but their luck was out.
- Date
- 1958
- Archival reference
NAA Reference: Series A12111, Control Symbol 1/1958/8/11
- Source
- National Archives of Australia
- Rights
- Reproduction rights owned by the National Archives of Australia.
- External Url
- https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=ID&Number=8275165
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