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Western Australia - Archival Collection
Warburton Mission (1958 - 1961)
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- 1958
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- 1961
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Warburton Mission is a collection of 120 coloured slides created by Mervyn Young between 1958 and 1961 when he was a missionary at Warburton Mission. The slides are held by the State Library of Western Australia and the collection is made up of 3 groups of photos which have digitised versions of the images available online. The collection includes images of staff, buildings and Aboriginal families.
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Access Conditions
The images are available online. Access to the originals is restricted due to preservation reasons. The images are for personal use only, to publish or display them, contact the State Library of Western Australia.
Records
The Warburton Mission collection is made up of 3 groups:
- Warburton Range missions, missionaries and Aboriginal people : part one
Call Number: BA1409/1-40
In this group photos include images of children, adults and facilities at Warburton Mission. There is also a photo of nearby Cosmo Newbery Mission. The series includes photographs of missionaries Mervyn and Joy Young and Iris and William Wade and Heather Mollenhauer, nurse missionary.
- Warburton Range missions, missionaries and Aboriginal people : part two
Call Number: BA1409/41-80
Photographs in this group are of children, adults and facilities at Warburton Mission. There are also images of missionaries Mervyn and Joy Young.
- Warburton Range missions, missionaries and Aboriginal people : part three.
Call Number: BA1409/81-120
Photographs in this group are of children, adults and facilities at Warburton Range Native Mission, Cosmo Newbery Mission and Mount Margaret Mission. The photos include images of the missionaries Mervyn and Joy Young and Sam Mollenhauer.
The captions used for the digital images have come from slide mounts.
The photographer, Mervyn Young, was a missionary at Warburton Mission in the late fifties and his wife, a nurse, ran the hospital.
- Contact
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Please contact the State Library of Western Australia:
Postal address: 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9427 3111
Email: info@slwa.wa.gov.au
Website: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
We do not currently have any records linked to this organisation, but records may exist.
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Arriving, Warburton Mission, 1958-1961
Hospital, Warburton Mission, 1958-1961
Milking, Warburton Mission, 1958-1961
Warburton Mission, 1958-1961