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- Author
- Konstantinidis, Janice
- Title
- Life in "The Mag"
- In
- Inside: life in children's homes
- Editor
- National Museum of Australia
- Description of Work
- Janice Konstantinidis shares a current photograph, as well as her detailed history of her time from the age of 12 working in the laundry of Mount Saint Canice, Tasmania, one of the Magdalena laundries, nicknamed "The Mag". Janice also includes recollections of the lengths some girls would go to in order to escape.
- Imprint
- Australian Government, 28 February 2011
- Url
- http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/28/life-in-the-mag/
- Source
- TP0000088
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