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The NSS Sobraon swimming club c1893

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The NSS Sobraon swimming club c1893

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

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Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney

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Children Reformatories Swimming

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Sobraon nautical training ship

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State Archives & Records New South Wales

Statutory body established by the State Records Act 1998. The Act provides for the creation, management and protection of the records of public offices of the State and for public access to those records.

Based at Kingswood, State Archives and Records NSW manage and provide access to the New South Wales State archives collection, a unique and irreplaceable part of Australia's cultural heritage dating back to 1788.

Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney

Concern about neglected and destitute children led to the formation of several different kinds of institutions to feed, house, train and sometimes care for them.

Children

Reformatories

Swimming

Sobraon nautical training ship

The second nautical training school on the ship Sobraon at Cockatoo Island, designed to rehabilitate destitute boys.

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