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Maternity Division – Labour Ward Book

These 8 Labour ward Books contain details about patients in the Labour and maternity ward at Mersey General Hospital. The books include information such as: time and date of admission, name, age, address, religion, and the times of clinical events during a patient’s admission. Access Conditions These records are open access. For access to these…

A still from a video showing Rita Wright telling of her experiences

An individual’s memories of the Stolen Generation

Rita Wright talks about her experiences at Marella Mission Farm as a survivor of the Stolen Generations. This is an excerpt from the TV show Insight (SBS), episode “Looking After the Kids”, which originally aired on April 19 2016.

St Anthony’s

This is a photograph that appears on the cover of St Anthony’s Family Care by Kathleen Burford (1989).

Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home

Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home is a collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is an incomplete collection of the annual reports of the Sydney Female Mission Home dating from 1873 to 1908. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible to any member of the public via…

Small cottages on concrete slabs on Fantome Island, Queensland

This is a photograph of some of the resident cottages at Fantome Island. It shows five small wood-framed huts with tin sheet roofs and shuttered windows, approximately 2 by 3 meters in size. The huts are all built on concrete slabs, and surrounded by sand. There is a large hill in the background.

Church and buildings on Fantome Island, North Queensland, 1961

This is a photograph of buildings on Fantome Island. The photograph was taken from offshore, and shows a red and white church and several other single-storey buildings situated just back from the beach at Fantome island. This photo is part of a collection of  photographs of North Queensland taken by Dr Ted Freeman and held…

View of the Aboriginal Hospital, Palm Island Settlement

This is a photograph of the hospital at the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement. It shows a large single-storey cottage-style building with two front-facing verandahs. The building is set back from a road lined with stones. Several people can be seen standing on the verandahs, and another man can be seen standing in gardens to the…

Girls’ Home, Palm Island Settlement

This is a photograph of the Girls’ dormitory at the Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement. It shows a wide, single-storey building with open front verandahs. The building is set among palm trees, and there is a road bordered with white stones running in front of it. Two girls or women are walking in front of the…

Aboriginal Lock Hospital, Fantome Island (from Gardens)

This is a photograph of the Lock Hospital at Fantome Island. It shows two medium-sized buildings near the beach, with several smaller buildings and sheds nearby. The photograph was taken from gardens on a small hill inland from the hospital, looking towards the beach, with Orpheus island in the background. This photograph was taken by…

Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten – Nursery, c.1938

This is a copy of a photograph from the collection of the Whitehorse Historical Society, showing the nursery at Forest Hill Residential Kindergarten.