This is a digital copy of a photograph held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is located within the collection called: Series 02: Alma Smith & Alva Atkins photographs of missions in New South Wales, 1909-1970.
This is an image of the memorial titled “Cherished Mother and Child”. According to the sculptor, the work was commissioned “to acknowledge the cruel history of illegal, unlawful and forced separation of mothers from their newly born children, undertaken in Australia from the late 1950’s to the mid 1970’s”. The monument was funded by Federal…
This undated colour photograph shows children from Retta Dixon Home boarding a bus. The children are wearing uniforms.
This is a digital copy of a black and white image from the John Mulligan Photograph Collection, ca. 1960-1976, that was created in 2002 by the National Library of Australia.
This is a copy of a photograph from 1995. Its Northern Territory Library catalogue description is ‘Kormilda College, old girls’ dormitory’.
This is a copy of a photograph from 1973. Its Northern Territory Library catalogue description is ‘Kormilda Aboriginal Residential College, girls wing from the south. Designed and constructed by the Northern Territory Regional Office of the Department of Housing and Construction, Commonwealth of Australia’.
The description reads: “Griffiths House children off for picnic in old 1939 Chevrolet truck”.
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