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Entrance gate to St Vincent’s

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The boys residing at the orphanage assisted in building the gate.

Child migration – British youth migrants having their daily swim at the Salvation Army Training Farm for Boys at Riverview, Queensland. When they first arrived very few could swim. Now they all can.

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Salvation Army Rescue Home for Girls, Toowong, ca. 1914

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Aerial photo of St Vincent’s Orphanage, ca. 1970

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Child migration – British youth migrants learning how to mount and ride a horse at the Salvation Army Training Farm for Boys, Riverview, Queensland.

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Benevolent Institution at Willowburn, Toowoomba, 1919

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This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: Queensland Government’s new Epileptic Home at Willowburn, Toowoomba, was officially opened by her Excellency Lady Goold Adams. The institution covers an area of 440ft. by 440ft., and cost 26,562 pounds to erect. There is accommodation for no fewer than 80 patients. One…

Benevolent Institution at Toowoomba, ca. 1902

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The library catalogue includes this description: Many large buildings are contained in the grounds of the Asylum for the Insane.

Ploughing at Westbrook State Farm, 1896

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This description was supplied with the photograph and included in the library catalogue: Westbrook State farm, Henry A. Tardent, was the founder and first manager. Around the turn of the century half of the State Farm was used for a boy’s reformatory and in about 1910 – 1919, the State Farm became solely a reformatory…