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Sunday school scholars, teachers, missionaries. Cherbourg AIM Church [Singleton Home]

This image from the Australian Indigenous Ministries pictorial collection 1908 to circa 1960s is described by History of Aboriginal Sydney as being of the Singleton Aboriginal Girls’ Home.

View of four of the five cottages from the west. In the foreground is the site of the original cottage dormitories

This image shows some of the cottages of the Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home.

Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute building, Darlington

This is a copy of an negative taken by Sam Hood, possibly for Axtell’s Ltd painters, and is part of the Home and Away Collection of the State Library of New South Wales

North Rocks School

This image shows the main entrance to the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

New South Wales Institution for the Deaf the Dumb and the Blind, Newtown-Road, Sydney

This is a copy of a photographic spread that appeared in the Australian Town and Country Journal on Saturday 7 January 1899. The photos are by Tasma Studios, King Street, Newtown. The images came with the following captions: 1.-Exterior View of the institution. 2.-The Board Room. 3.-Drawing and Modelling Class. 4.-The Girl’s Playground. 5.-The Teaching…

Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Waratah

This is a copy of an image that appeared in a Catholic Weekly article in 1934 and included the caption: ‘This picture is taken from the plan. The portions under construction are the side wings.’