Archives



Statements of residents’ wages and payments for board at Allambi Girls Hostel

This series of records contain information about wages paid to girls living at the Allambi Girls Hostel, and payments made by the girls ti the Hostel in boarding fees, between 1948 and 1951. No further description of these records has been provided in the State Records of South Australia catalogue. Access Conditions Access to these…

Admission books – Woodville Assessment Unit

These Admission books contain information about children who were admitted to the Woodville Assessment Unit and Woodville Community Unit. They include the child’s admission number, name, age, date of birth, ‘order’ (possibly reason for admission), their previous placement, discharge date, where they were discharged to, and administrative reference numbers used by the Department. The book…

Register of patients – Ru Rua Nursing Home

The Registers of Patients contain information about people admitted to Ru Rua Nursing Home between 1974 and 1989. Information recorded in the registers includes patient registration number, date of admission, name, sex, date of birth, birthplace, marital status, previous address, information about pensions and medical benefits, previous admissions, referrals, medical information, religion, name and contact…

Admission registers – Mareeba Babies’ Hospital, later Paediatric Section, Queen Elizabeth Hospital

These admission registers contain information about children admitted to the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital and the Mareeba Children’s Annex to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital between 1920 and 1972. Information recorded in the registers includes the patient’s registration number, name, sex, date of birth, date of admission, condition on admission, disease, classification number, date of dischage/transfer/death, result…

Admission registers – Umeewarra Mission School

These admission registers were created by the Umeewarra Mission School, which was the school located at the Umeewarra Mission, also known as Davenport Reserve, near Port Augusta. The registers record details about children that attended the school, including their name, date of birth, gender, religion, parents names and occupations, residence, previous school, grades, date of…

A8739 Aboriginal Affairs photographic negatives, daily single number with ‘A’ [black and white] or ‘AKN’ [colour] prefix

Aboriginal Affairs photographic negatives is a series held by the National Archives of Australia. It consists of black and white 35mm and 6 x 6cm negatives and three 5 x 4″ (12.5 x 10cm) colour internegatives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. These items document events relating to Aboriginal Affairs. It includes photographs of institutions such…

St. Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, Victoria [microform]

This is a small collection of microform records about St Augustine’s Orphanage, Geelong, held by the State Library of Victoria. It includes copies of the Admissions and Discharges register dated 1857-1878, which contains the names and brief details about children admitted to and discharged from the orphanage during that period. It also includes copies of…

Maternity Division – Labour Ward Book

These 8 Labour ward Books contain details about patients in the Labour and maternity ward at Mersey General Hospital. The books include information such as: time and date of admission, name, age, address, religion, and the times of clinical events during a patient’s admission. Access Conditions These records are open access. For access to these…

Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home

Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home is a collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is an incomplete collection of the annual reports of the Sydney Female Mission Home dating from 1873 to 1908. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible to any member of the public via…

Birralee – Staff and Administration records

The contents of this collection are dated 1965 to 1987. Although Birralee closed as a children’s shelter in 1968, the file contains records associated with the administration of the property post the closure. Birralee as a children’s shelter was jointly administered by the then Department of Interior and the New South Wales Welfare Office in…