Boys working in the vegetable patch at Kennerley Boys’ Home

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Landscape view of the Kennerley Boys’ Home at Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart.

Group photograph of the boys from the Boys Home in Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart, in October 1911

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‘Tresca’

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Caption from National Archives of Australia: Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society this month extended its child migration scheme to Tasmania. The Society has taken over and modernised “Tresca” near Launceston. This wil be in addition to farms schools for British migrant children at Molong, NSW and at Pinjarra, WA. The society…

Infant Orphan School

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Orphan School, South Wing

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Orphan School, North Wing

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Devastation after the laundry boiler explosion at Mt St Canice, Hobart, 5 September 1974

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This is a copy of an image published in the book, Pitch your tents on distant shores (2010)

Photograph – 261 Charles Street – Te Aro Villa, original South Launceston School, 1882, principal Mrs A Gye.

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This is an image of Te Aro Villa at 261 Charles Street, Launceston, which, between 1895 and 1896, housed the Salvation Army Rescue Home. The photograph shows an ornate, two-storey house with a steep pitched roof. There is a sign in front of the house which reads “Launceston Wesleyan Chapel”.

Calisthenic exercises, Mt St Canice, Hobart, c.1950

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This is a copy of an image published in the book, Pitch your tents on distant shores (2010)

Advice of admission of a child to an institution and claim for additional child endowment

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This is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.