This is a photograph on children playing on play equipment in the garden of Hargrave House. It shows approximately 16 children playing on swings and climbing frames, holding balls, and riding on scooters. St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, is visible in the background. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs from children’s Homes and…
This is a photograph of children playing cricket in a field outside of Hargrave House. It shows approximately 13 children, supervised by two adults, playing cricket in front of three connected brick buildings. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs from children’s Homes and Institutions held by the NSW Department of Community Justice.
This is a photograph of children in the courtyard at Hargrave House. It shows approximately 10 children in a brick courtyard between two brick buildings, surrounded by garden beds filled with bright flowers. One of the children is on a bicycle. This photograph is part of a collection of photographs from children’s Homes and Institutions…
The New South Wales Government Departments for Child and Social Welfare created a collection of about 5000 photographs relating to out-of-home care and state wardship. This collection includes images of individual children who had been placed in government-run Homes and institutions. Some children appearing in photographs have been named, but many have not yet been…
This is a film made about Arthur Walker, born in 1925, who spent time in foster care and a number of Victorian institutions during his childhood.
This is a copy of a photograph of Elim House from the mid twentieth century, from the Salvation Army Archives. It was published in an article in The Examiner on 23 August 2023, and was supplied to the newspaper by Shelley Freeman.
This is a photograph of Kirinari student hostel at Sylvania, Sydney. It shows a large mural with images of fish, birds, snakes, and other wildlife painted on the side of a large brick building. This image was published in the Aboriginal Hostels Limited annual report for 1986-87.
This is a photograph showing three people sitting at tables in the dining room at Nindee Hostel, Adelaide. The tables are small, each seating four people. Behind the tables is a serving hatch through to the kitchen. This image was published in the 1979-80 Annual Report of Aboriginal Hostels Limited with the caption “Nindee Hostel…
The Koorie index of names is a database created by Public Record Office Victoria which can be searched to locate references to Victorian Aboriginal people who are mentioned in some archival records that relate to Aboriginal affairs (1839-1946). This database is not accessible online and is only searchable on-site at the Victorian Archives Centre in…
Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd is a community controlled not-for-profit organisation that was established in 1972 to respond to poor health and housing outcomes for Aboriginal people in Gippsland, Victoria. It opened the Meerindoo Hostel for Aboriginal students at Bairnsdale in 1972, and ran it (with support from Aboriginal Hostels Ltd) until 2014,…
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