Shiloh, boys working

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Description: These are two images of boys working at the Shiloh Home, which were published in Lawrence Whitmore's 'The Problem Child at Shiloh'. The top image shows a boy kneeling on the ground and plucking a chicken. The caption reads 'Poultry is added to the menu'. The bottom image shows three boys guiding a calf towards a bucket, which it is drinking from. The caption for this image reads 'Teaching the calf to drink from a bucket - an aspect of work in the dairy.'
Date: 1963
Source: Whitmore, L. (1963), 'The Problem Child at Shiloh' [Thesis]
Archival Reference: State Library of Western Australia Call No. 365.42 WHI and Record No. b1464574. p.83
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