Correspondence Files comprises the main file series for the Colonial Secretary’s Office/Chief Secretary’s Department for the post-1883 period. The correspondence files deal with all functions the office had oversight or control of. Records from the Colonial Secretary’s Office contain information about out of home care in Western Australia, as well as a range of other…
Administration and personal/welfare files of the South West District Office (also known as the Southern District office) of the Department of Native Affairs and the Department of Native Welfare. The files are concerned with education, health, housing, employment, welfare, missions and reserves. This series includes records relating to the East Perth Girls’ Home, Mogumber, and…
Run by The Salvation Army, the Boulder Rescue Home provided an alternative to gaol or an industrial school for girls and young women who were charged by the Police or Children’s Courts from 1904 to around 1914. Children charged with neglect, vulnerable young women and people committed for offences all seem to have been taken…
The Salvation Army Girls’ Home, Kalgoorlie ran from 1904 to at least 1924 and possibly to 1930. Non-aboriginal girls were also admitted in later years. Newspaper accounts suggest that the purpose of the Home was to train the girls for domestic service. When the Home closed, the girls were transferred to the Salvation Army Girls’…
The purpose of the The Salvation Army (Western Australia) Property Trust Act 1931 (034 of 1931 (22 Geo. V No. 34)) was to regulate the financial affairs of the Salvation Army in Western Australia. In the Preamble, the Act gives some historical information about the establishment of the Salvation Army in Britain and WA.
Files – Aborigines Department is an archival series which comprises records that were created by the Aborigines Department and its successor agencies – the Department of Native Welfare and the Department of Native Affairs – up until 1972 when welfare functions, and their associated files, were transferred to the newly created Department for Community Welfare….
The Victoria Hospital for Infectious Diseases began as ‘little more than a tent outpost’ in response to an outbreak of smallpox in 1893. It was located in the Perth suburb of Subiaco (later known as Shenton Park). Children with infectious diseases were regularly admitted during the early life of the hospital. In 1938, ‘after many…
‘Interview with Beryl Grant, Matron of Ngala, 1959-1980’ is an oral history held by the State Library of Western Australia. In the interview Beryl discusses Ngala, the development of facilities and the roles of staff and the committees. She also mentions Ngala as a mothercraft training centre, a Day Care Centre and a place where…
This series contains the School Journals of the Parkerville Primary School, Western Australia. A School Journal is the Head Teacher’s record of events and activities at a school. School journals frequently name children and may briefly describe children’s accidents, illnesses or other incidents. Children from the Parkerville Children’s Home went to the Parkerville Primary School…
Photographs relating to life at Salvation Army children’s homes in Cottesloe and Subiaco is a collection of 40 negatives, 13 copy negatives and 2 photographic prints relating to the Salvation Army children’s homes in Cottesloe (girls) and Subiaco/Nedlands (boys). The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions These photographs are…
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