This is a group photograph of the residents and staff at Moore River Native Settlement. It shows over 100 adults and children posed in front of the dining hall at the Moore River. This photo is on page 91 of album 2 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River…
This is a photograph of the main street at Mogumber. It shows a wide dirt street with weatherboard and fibro cottages on either side, shaded by large trees. This photo is on page 41 of album 6 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is held…
This is a photograph of ‘Waratah’, one of the residential cottages at Mogumber. It shows three Aboriginal girls standing in front of the entrance to a blue fibro cottage. This photo is on page 37 of album 6 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…
This is a photograph of the newly opened boys school-room at Mogumber. It shows five boys in dark blue uniforms standing around a stack of hay bales at the entrance to a fibro building. This photo is on page 13 of album 7 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore…
A Royal Commission was appointed to examine the State Children Department and Charities Department, and report on “the working and management thereof, and any improvements which ought to be made in such working and management” (Final Report, Royal Commission on State Children’s Department and Charities Department, p.2). The commission held 42 sittings and examined 77…
This is a photograph of the hospital at Moore River. It shows three adult women, a young child, and a nursing sister standing on the verandah of a medium-sized stone building. This photo is on page 10 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement,…
This is a photograph of the dormitory within the Moore River kindergarten. It shows a long room with over 20 cots lining the walls. There is a woman holding a young Aboriginal child standing at the far end of the room. This photo is on page 103 of album 8 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation…
This is a photograph of the kindergarten building at Moore River Native Settlement in around 1939. It shows a wide single-storey building with two wings and a central verandah. This photo is on page 67 of album 1 of the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation collection of photographs relating to the Moore River Native Settlement, which is…
This is a photograph of ‘The Boob’ at Moore River Native Settlement/Mogumber . ‘The Boob’ was the colloquial name for the gaol or lock-up, where residents, including children, were confined as punishment. The photo shows 10 people standing in front of a medium-sized window-less building made out of corrugated metal sheets and timber. There is…
This collection of eight photo albums was assembled by the Wheatbelt Aboriginal Corporation’s Mogumber Heritage Committee with the intention of creating a pictorial archive of the Moore River/Mogumber settlement. The albums include lots of photographs of the children, adult residents, and staff of the Moore River/Mogumber settlement, many of whom are identified by name. The…
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