Title – Adelaide Central Mission re Boarding home for Aboriginal women and children who visit Adelaide for medical attention, etc/Offer of property in Sussex Street, Lower North Adelaide. Contents – Correspondence docket comprising miscellaneous letters and documents relating primarily to the purchase and opening of the home. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable…
Department for Community Welfare administrative file titled Lutheran Children’s Emergency Home (GRS 4164/4. File no 14/13/2). General administrative file with reports, licensing agreements and correspondence between the Department and the home management committee. The file contains one news clipping regarding the opening of the home. No children’s names or information appear in this file. Access…
Letter from Professor JB Cleland to the Aborigines Protection Board outlining the history of Campbell House and plans for the farm school. Further correspondence relating to Campbell House Farm School may appear in GRG 52/1 (State Record Office of South Australia Reference Number). Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is…
Correspondence (BWEBS224-1) is an archival item, which contains records listed as: “Female Refuge and Infants Home (Turbot, Edward & Ann Sts) 1875 – 1910”. The records include general correspondence related to the management of the Female Refuge and Infants Home. Access Conditions Access to some of these records is restricted to protect personal privacy. Records…
Training, Riverview is a file containing a copy of an article written by the Salvation Army Immigration Department on 3 September 1928. The article talks about the training for migrants in Queensland rural life, provided at Riverview Farm. Access Conditions This record is on open access and are available for viewing by the general public.
Johnston, John, Historian, Item ID PRCOS257-7, contains news clippings and photographs collected by John Johnston that relate to the following institutions: Boys Home Enoggera, Brisbane Female Refuge, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Home of the Good Shepherd, Nundah (State Orphans), Lytton Reformatory, OPAL (One People Australian League), St. Michael’s Industrial School, Clayfield, Sandeman Nursery Wynnum,…
Miscellaneous, Item ID SSFRS165-3, is an archival item related to the Society of St Francis Religious Order. The collection consists of General Correspondence, News Clippings, Notebooks, Books, Loose Photographic Prints and Legal Documents. Part of the collection includes general historical material related to St Christopher’s Lodge and The Friary. Access Conditions Access to some of…
The Visiting Justice’s Minute Book, Series ID 1773, relates to the Reformatory School for Boys – Hulk Proserpine, Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton, Diamantina Reformatory School for Boys and Westbrook Reformatory for Boys. It records cases of serious misdemeanour heard before a Visiting Justice (Magistrate) from the Court of Petty Sessions, Toowoomba. Misdemeanours included: indecent…
The Admissions Register of the Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women (South Sydney Women’s Hospital) are two volumes of registers. The registers contain pre-printed forms requesting personal details of pregnant women who were admitted. Details on the firms include the mother’s medical history, current circumstances, and additional notes relating to outcomes after the…
Born in Sydney, Weston speaks of his family background, childhood, break up of parents’ marriage, life in Sydney, being placed in Westmead [St Vincent’s] boys home by his mother, being classed as “a naughty boy”, conditions, life and work, education, in home ; running away and his life out of care, including marriage. Access Conditions…
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