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Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes

Scrapbooks of news clippings from South Australian newspapers which may contain clippings related to the Junior Red Cross Home. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records, recordings and transcripts…

Historical published material, Junior Red Cross Homes

Miscellaneous papers including summary histories, reports and news clippings on homes run by the Red Cross including the Junior Red Cross Homes. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records,…

Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes

Two scrapbooks which may contain clippings related to the Junior Red Cross Homes. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records, recordings and transcripts can only be used in the…

Junior Red Cross Committee minutes

These minute books of the Junior Red Cross Home are foolscap sized notebooks with typed minutes pasted in. They cover the dates 29 October 1925 – 22 March 1929, and 17 May 1929 – 31 July 1935. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of…

Junior Red Cross Home Committee Minutes

This minute book of the Junior Red Cross Home is a repaired notebook with types minutes pasted in. The minute book includes minutes of the Junior Red Cross Home Admission Committee. These minutes give names of children admitted, brief details regarding their situation and decisions made by the committee regarding them. Details are recorded under…

Admission Registers, Junior Red Cross Homes

The Admission Registers from the Junior Red Cross Homes are two separate registers. One register is a large hard-cover landscape volume which spans the dates from 1933 to 1958. The other register is a hard-cover A4 sized volume which dates from 1961 to 1968. There are no records from 1958 to 1961. Both admission reigsters…

Records of Adelaide Children’s Hospital

The records of the Adelaide Children’s Hospital are held by State Records of South Australia. They may contain information about children who were wards of the state, or who had been placed in out-of-home care, and who received treatment at the hospital. They also contain admissions registers and a visitor’s book from Estcourt House, which…

Correspondence files, annual single number series – Colonial Surgeon’s Office and successor agencies

This series comprises correspondence files of the Colonial Surgeon’s office and its successors, including the Hospitals Department. The correspondence contains little information about patients, however it does include correspondence relating to the lunatic asylums and mental hostpials, and it may include correspondence related to Estcourt House and Mareeba Babies Hospital. The correspondence mostly relates to…

Visitors’ book – Estcourt House

This Visitors’ Book records information about people who visited Estcourt House. It includes details such as the date of the visit, name and address of visitor, and comments made by the visitor. Most visitors recorded in this book are members of church groups, societies, benefactors, dignitaries, and school groups. Some may be parents of children…

Correspondence – Aboriginal Women’s Home, North Adelaide

Title – Adelaide Central Mission re Boarding home for Aboriginal women and children who visit Adelaide for medical attention, etc/Offer of property in Sussex Street, Lower North Adelaide. Contents – Correspondence docket comprising miscellaneous letters and documents relating primarily to the purchase and opening of the home. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable…