They are Miss Kim Keum, of the Severance School of Nursing, Seoul; Mrs Lee Kwi Hyung, Director of National University School of Nursing and Miss Hong Young Sook, Chief Nurse at the Korean Red Cross Hospital in Seoul. In Melbourne they spent two weeks at the Presbyterian Babies’ Home, which cares for 50 babies –…
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Monday 9 December 1929. The image shows the outside of the Methodist Babies’ Home and the crowds on its opening day. The original caption reads, ‘The new Methodist Babies’ Home, on a fine site overlooking the river at South Yarra was opened on…
Summary: Whole-length, to right, wearing white lab coat standing in front of Churinga with papers in his hands.
[Depicts a painting of the Gulliver’s farm at Cheltenham which in 1922 was bought by Methodist Homes. By the 1950s the property was bought by the Catholic Church to eventually become the boys’ home run by the St John of God Brothers. After 1966, the land was sold and later became the Southland shopping centre.]
This image was published in The Argus on 4 April 1941 in an article titled ‘The Methodist Babies’ Home’. The caption reads, ‘The Methodist Babies’ Home at South Yarra is not faced with the suburban housewives’ problem of obtaining a supply of milk during the strike. The Transport Workers’ Union is giving its services free…
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Tuesday 19 December 1922. The image shows children at a party. The original caption reads, ‘Each year at about Christmas time the boarded-out children and their fostermothers are entertained at the Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home Berry Street, East Melbourne. There was a…
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Friday 27 July 1923. The image shows babies from The Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home. The original caption reads, ‘Scenes at the home on the occasion of the annual meeting yesterday are depicted.’
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Thursday 2 July 1953. The image shows a baby and mothercraft nurse from Berry Street Babies’ Home and Hospital. The caption read, Baby looks intrigued as he is weighed by Margaret Witton, a trained mothercraft nurse at Berry St. Foundling Home [altered from…
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Saturday 6 August 1938. The image shows children hanging upside down on exercise bars. The original captions read: ‘Everything is upside down to these children at the Sutherland Homes, Greensborough. They keep warm with their exercises on the parallel bars.’
This is a copy of an image published in The Argus on Tuesday 18 April 1950. The image shows a baby on a rocking horse. The caption reads: The baby of the Home looks very pensive as he takes his turn in the rocker in the nursery [altered from original caption].
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