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Melbourne City Mission

This is a digitised copy of a pamphlet stating the need for a toddlers home.

Hurlingham: a Carry On Club Project

This is a digital copy of an undated brochure produced by the Carry On Club to raise funds to support the Hurlingham children’s home. It contains information about the Carry On Club, the home, and has images of the home and its residents.

Kildonan Annual Reports Front Covers and extracts

This document contains extracts from and covers of several Kildonan Annual Reports. It includes most of the 1957 Kildonan Annual Report.

Report on fire at Tally Ho Boys’ Village

Albert Godbehere, superintendent of the Tally Ho Boys’ Village, wrote the report on the fire, which occurred on Tuesday 21 January 1964.

Ward Index Card (detail, de-identified)

This is an image of a detail from a Ward Index Card dating from the 1970s. The detail shows the type of records kept by the Victorian Social Welfare Department about a child or young person’s ‘movements’, i.e. admissions and discharges to different institutions.

‘Neglected Children’s Department, Victoria 1.07.04’, bound volume of press clippings with index at front

Collection of newsclippings, apparently compiled by employees of the Neglected Children’s Department. The articles are about child welfare issues, primarily in Victoria. This album would have been a resource for the department’s staff.

150 years of children in care in Victoria, 150 years of MacKillop Family Services

This is a copy of a Wall Chart produced by MacKillop Family Services to document its involvement in the child welfare sector from 1855-2005.

Anglican Mission to the Streets and Lanes. Outline History

This outline history of the Anglican Mission to the Streets and Lanes is presented in the form of a timeline.

Scrap album

Collection of newsclippings, believed to have been compiled by an employee of the Neglected Children’s Department. The articles are about child welfare issues, primarily in Victoria but also in other states and nations. This album would have been a resource for the department’s staff, providing information about how their own work was being portrayed in…

‘Conditions and rules for adopting children by the Victorian Infant Asylum’

This is a copy of a form used by the Victorian Infant Asylum (a predecessor of Berry Street). The form was to be filled out by prospective adoptive parents.