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Children

Subject
Bidura
Children
Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney
Forty years of the Elsie Refuge for Women and Children
Parramatta and Black Town Native Institutions
Royleston
Shaftesbury Reformatory
Sydney Day Nursery Association
The Parramatta Girls Home
Transcript: Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about anti-German sentiment during World War I
Transcript: Mr George Bates on a chance 'meeting' with Henry Lawson's dog
Transcript: Mr Jack Healy recalls boyhood swimming rituals in the Georges River
Transcript: Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers working as a child on a farm in Liverpool
Transcript: Mr Stanley Everett remembers making crystal radio sets as a child in Liverpool
Transcript: Mrs Carmel Amalfi describes her husband Angelo's work as a child on his father's farm in Liverpool in the 1930s
Transcript: Mrs Dorothy Colburn recalls hazards associated with the Georges River
Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls Cracker Night in the early twentieth century near Bringelly
Transcript: Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls the Sydney Water Board cottage of her childhood
Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers Liverpool's outdoor cinema
Transcript: Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers scenes from the Liverpool soldiers' riot of 1916
Transcript: Mrs Enid Borowsky talks about working conditions in Liverpool's Challenge Woollen Mills
Transcript: Mrs Enid and Mr Carl Borowsky recall learning to swim in the Georges River in the 1920s
Transcript: Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers hazards encountered while walking to school
Transcript: Mrs Florence Starr recalls making garden stakes for Chinese market gardeners in Austral
Transcript: Mrs Marjorie Gough knitting for the soldiers in WWI and WWII
Yarra Bay House
Act to incorporate and otherwise promote the objects of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children 1857
Fatty Finn
Industrial Schools Act, 1866
Mothercraft
NSS Sobraon
Neglected Children's and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905
Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act 1901
State Children Relief Act 1881
The Kid Stakes
Vernon
Albion Street Children's Court
Elsie
Female Orphan School, George Street
Minnie
Royleston
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Bear Cottage
Children of Mary
Elsie Women's Refuge
Fisher Road Special School
Forgotten Australians
Fresh Air League
KU Children's Services
Metropolitan Children's Court
Metropolitan Girls' Shelter, Glebe
Metropolitan Shelter for Children
Minda Child Remand Home
Open All Night Refuge
Orphan Immigration Committee
SDN Children's Services
Sobraon nautical training ship
Society for the Relief of Destitute Children
Stewart House
Stolen Generations
Sydney Children's Hospital
The Honeys
Abernethy, William
D’Oyley, William
Hill, Florence
Hill, Rosamond
Thompson, Clyde William
Coronation Playground
Katoomba St & Clouds, Katoomba c1908-15
'God bless dear Daddy who is fighting the Hun and send him Help' 1918
'The End of the Odyssey - Children handed over to Child Welfare Department' March 1927
'Vote No Mum, they'll take Dad next' 1916
'Wanted, a Governess' in Australia 1850-54
1st Juvenile (in the extreme of female fashion) to avoid being put on the Vernon , 1867
248 Francis-street, Glebe 1900
A Mother's Offering to her Children by a Lady, long resident in New South Wales, 1841
A class of 72 pupils at Erskineville Public School 1947
A cliff-face stair-way, Darlinghurst c1886
A family of New South Wales c1790s
A native family of New South Wales sitting down on an English settler's farm c1826
A typical day at a Sydney Day Nursery - playing on the merry-go-round, October 1939
APEX sponsored British migrants 1960
Aboriginal woman sitting opposite child who is offering her something
Aboriginal woman sitting with child on her back c1805
Alexandria Baby Clinic 1914
Ann Piper and her children, c1826
Arriving at a Sydney Day Nursery, October 1939
Art class at Malek Fahd Islamic school, Greenacre 2004
Audience of children at an afternoon matinee at Enmore Cinema 1951
Australian Aboriginals pre 1806
Avon Street entrance to the Bidura Auditorium and Children's Court, Glebe 6 March 2015
Baby clinic Newtown 1914
Balmoral Beach with sailing boat c1915
Bidura, 357 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 6 March 2015
Billy Hughes at Hammondville c1935
Boy Scouts' visit to the Royleston Crippled Boys' Home for State Wards, Glebe May 1925
Boy and dog in gutter at rear of No 42 Francis-street, Glebe 1900
Boy pushing pram on Gloucester Street, The Rocks,c1900
Boys play outside terraces in Chippendale 1959
Boys skipping rope in Kepos Street, Redfern 1952
Brain operation in Sydney for Mauritian boy 1971
Brass sign with guide to the Bidura Children's Court complex, Glebe Point Road, Glebe 6 March 2015
Buntha Nhem, left, with two other Cambodian orphans at Burnside children's home in North Parramatta 1983
Cadet Ron Whelan from the Snapper Island sea training depot at the wheel of the Canadian five-masted schooner City of Alberni on its visit to Sydney c1940
Cambodian English class 1986
Camperdown Public School 1st Class 1947
Canon Hammond at Liverpool December 1935
Canon Hammond at Liverpool December 1935
Canon Hammond at Liverpool, December 1935 (detail)
Certificate exempting Henry Ah Chee from the Dictation Test on his return to Australia, 1906
Children and families at 'Happy Valley' in the sandhills at Brighton-le-Sands, November 1933
Children and swimmers in Northbridge Baths 1938
Children and washing on Harrington Lane, the Rocks c1900
Children at Camperdown Park Children's Playground 1938
Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941
Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941
Children at the ticket counter at Enmore Cinema 1951
Children enjoying the rides at the Eid Festival at Fairfield showground 2007
Children from the Dalwood Home with plaster cow outside the Black and White Milk Bar, Martin Place c1933
Children in Magrath's Lane, Kent Street 6 December 1875
Children in classroom at Blackfriars Public School c1913
Children in classroom at Coogee Public School 1930
Children in fancy dress at the opening of the 50th home at Hammondville 2 December 1934
Children in inner city slums 1949
Children in inner city slums 1949
Children in inner city slums 1949
Children in playground at Villawood Migrant Hostel 1973
Children in the Odeon National Cinema Club at Randwick's Odeon Theatre 15 February 1947
Children in the Odeon National Cinema Club, Kingsford 1947
Children in the audience at Eastwood Odeon cinema 1947
Children in the foyer at Enmore Theatre 1951
Children looking at bones, Australian Museum, March 1950
Children on the banks of Salt Pan Creek in the mid 1920s
Children outside Enmore Cinema 1951
Children playing at Riverside Park by the Cooks River, Marrickville 1936
Children playing in Frog Hollow, Surry Hills 1949
Children playing with construction toys during a Waratah Festival event, October 1967
Children running in to Enmore Cinema 1951
Children with their toys in Kepos Street, Redfern 1950
Christmas party given by Rachel Forster Hospital for the local children 1925
Class 1A percussion band at unidentified Sydney school c1950
Cleveland Street Public School interior showing infants class December 1909
Clients at the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern 1974
Commonwealth Free Kindergarten in Bettington St, Millers Point 1910
Communion breakfast, Roman Catholic Church, Surry Hills, c1945-46
Constructing an air raid shelter at Parsley Bay 30 December 1941
Coogee Beach c1910
Cover of 'Digit Dick and The Lost Opals' by Leslie Rees and illustrated by Hutchings, Lansdowne Press 1971
Crowd of children walking up May Street to St Peters railway station for their annual Sunshine Club picnic, 17 March 1945
Cumberland Place, The Rocks 1901
Destitute Children's Asylum Randwick 1866
Digit Dick's Walkabout on the Barrier Reef : a game based on the story by Leslie Rees c1950
Drinking fountain near Fort St School 1924
East Timorese child with flag, East Hills Safe Haven, Sydney, 1999
East Timorese young boy, East Hills Safe Haven, Sydney, 1999
Echo Point Lookout, Katoomba c1910
Edna Rule and June Ditchburn with Felix the Cat toy at Nielsen Park 1926
Elsie Women's Refuge, Glebe 1974
Entrance to the All Night Refuge for Women and Children in Beauchamp Lane, Surry Hills March 1939
Ethel Turner at Girls High School Sydney about 15, 1885
Female Orphan School, Parramatta 1870-1875
Female Orphan School, Parramatta c1820s
Florence Holloway's Obstetric Nursing certificate from the Royal Hospital for Women, 18 February 1908
Foot drill, HMNS Vernon 1870s
Fort Street Boys High School, Observatory Hill, August 1913
Forty children from Merriwa visited Sydney and paid a visit to the Commonwealth Bank 1957
GPS Regatta at Penrith, Nepean River 1940
George Robinson of Harrington St, taken in Cambridge St 1924
George Street looking north, showing Jewish Synagogue, Police Offices, the Markets, old Burial Ground, now the site of the Town Hall, 1842
Girls skipping at Athletics Carnival c1900
Gloucester Street looking north from Essex Street, The Rocks c1900
Harrington Street, The Rocks 1901
Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Windmill Street, The Rocks c1901
Holiday at Taronga: the old days 1918
Hyde Park Family Centre 1991
In the library on the NSS Sobraon, 1893
It can't happen here.... Scenes in inner city Sydney during the Depression 1938
Jubilee School, Surry Hills c1912
Juvenile Sympathy 1834
Kate Leigh's Christmas party outside her house on Lansdowne St, Surry Hills 1949
Keith Kinnaird Mackellar c1882
Kids & Dogs, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
Kurnell public school library 1985
Last page of the List of Female Convicts on board the Lady Penrhyn, from the journal of Arthur Bowes Smyth May 1787
Leslie Rees showing Walter Cunningham's illustrations for 'The Story of Karrawingi the Emu' to children at an exhibition 1946
Letter to her mother from Annie Campbell, June 1845
Little boy sitting on Santa's lap at Roselands December 1969
Little boy takes a ride during Christmas shopping 1959
Little girl looking at dolls while Christmas shopping 1949
Lost at the Royal Easter Show, Moore Park 18 April 1938
Man carrying an injured boy at Fort Macquarie after Greycliffe disaster 3 November 1927
Marbles are in 1886
Maureen de Groot in Dutch tulips at Hyde Park 1981
Maybanke Wolstenholme (later Anderson) c1890
Memorial to Sydney Rickards, the young son of Harry and Kate Rickards in Waverley Cemetery 2012
Merry Makers family picnic, East Hills 4 May 1941
Miss Wardle, Matron of the Randwick Asylum 1890
Monte Sant' Angelo at the Catholic College Basketball Championships 1935
Mothers and Children appeal poster 8 December 1920
Mr Barracluff (Junior) gives Denis a ride, South Head 24 December 1905
Mrs Daisy Larkin, postwoman on horse, Jannali 1954
Mrs Maybanke Anderson 1914
Murawina, a centre for young Aboriginal children, Redfern 1980
NSS Sobraon, on the deck c1890s
Nautical School Ship Sobraon c1893
Nautical School Ship Sobraon: Plan of superintendent's office, reception room and library, 1 March 1892
Nick the Pirate, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Darling Harbour 2010
Non-sectarian Sydney City Mission, Millers Point c1920
Nurses and mothers with babies at Newtown Baby Clinic 1914
Odeon Cinema Club for children at Randwick 15 February 1947
Odeon Cinema Club poster, Drummoye, February 1947
Old Belmore Markets c1905
On the razzle dazzle, in Prince Alfred Square, Parramatta 1932
Page from illuminated address to Simon Pearce from the Randwick Asylum for the Relief of Destitute Children 1881
Pages from book The Electric Imps 1937
Passengers queue to get a ticket for the Sydney Monorail on a hot day in January 2 January 2009
People in a boat and tin canoes on Botany Bay in the 1930s
Philip Gidley and Anna Josepha King, and their children Elizabeth, Anna Maria and Phillip Parker 1799
Physical culture group at Christian Brothers Waverley 1946
Picnic on Rodd Island 22 April 1948
Portrait of Australia Little, c1880
Presbyterian Ladies' College, Croydon 1930s
Prime Minister Paul Keating with Anon Link, 7, at launch of the International Year of World's Indigenous People, Redfern 1992
Protesters against the detention of refugee children, Villawood Immigration Detention Centre January 2002
Public school students 2007
Rachel Forster Hospital, George Street, Redfern 15 June 1938
Radio station 2CH's children's Christmas party, Trocadero, Sydney 1936
Radio station 2GB youth show, Trocadero, Sydney 1941
Ragged School Harrington Street c1911
Randwick Asylum 1890
Ray Brown and the Whispers performing at a union picnic c1965
Recreation hall on the NSS Sobraon 11 August 1893
Redfern Park, Redfern c1907-10
Report handed in by Mrs Shelley: A monthly report of the state and progress of the Aborigines children in the Native Asylum, Parramatta, from the 1st to the 31st of May, 1820
Requirements and Rules for Persons engaging themselves as Teachers in the Parramatta Sunday School 1816
Riding the reels, Chippendale 1959
Roadworkers removing woodblocks from road at St Peters 22 April 1935
Roselands Shopping Centre 23 November 1965
Rules & regulations for the management of the Aborigines, or, Black Native Institution of New South Wales, established at Parramatta, on the 18th of January, 1815.
Running, Mount Wilson 1968
Ruth Park writing at home, one of her children under the table, September 1951
Sacred Heart School, Darlinghurst 1976
Saidee and Alice Stephen 1848
Sailing boats in Kippax Lake, Moore Park c1977
Salk polio vaccination of schoolgirls, Maroubra 1956
Saturday arvo, Cronulla, 1961
School boy wearing cowboy costume over his school uniform, June 1934
Science Class at Blackfriars Training College 1911
Seaplane on the water at Rose Bay c1930
Sir Philip Game at the Highland Society's Caledonian Games at the Sydney Showground, 1 January 1935
Sitting on the Playfair Stairs c1901
Six nurses holding babies, Crown Street Women's Hospital, Surry Hills c1936
Sleeping in hammocks on the NSS Sobraon c1893
Slums, Little Chambers Street, Ultimo c1906
Spinning tops 1886
Squalid houses in Batson's Lane 1900
Staff and pupils of Woodford Academy c1910
Stained glass in the Shakespeare Room, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Strikers' wives marching from The Domain to Parliament House August 1917
Students and staff at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, New South Wales, 1899
Students besides the school bus, Kirinari Aboriginal Hostel, Sylvania, 1980
Students in playground at front of Tempe Public School 1920-1940s
Sunday school, St Barnabas's Church, Broadway, December 1856
Surry Hills terraces at 73-77 Foveaux Street to be demolished 1913
Sydney Day Nursery, dressing to go home, 1939
Sydney Evangelistic Crusade preaching outside Homebush Primary School, 1947
Terraces on Irving Street, Chippendale 1908
The Bath, Dee Why c1915
The Metropolitan Girls' Shelter at the rear of Bidura, Avon Street Glebe 1931
The NSS Sobraon swimming club c1893
The Randwick Asylum: How the Destitute Children are Cared For, April 1890
The Sydney Milky Way; or Infant Poison 1875
The Sydney newsboys' day out October 1898
The Warren, Cooks River residence of the Hon Thomas Holt March 1870
The dining hall, Randwick Asylum 1890
The quadrangle, Randwick Asylum 1890
The school room on the NSS Sobraon c1895
The wheel of youth, Dee Why 1929
Turning the first turf of the first railway in the Australasian colonies at Redfern, Sydney, N.S.W. 3rd July 1850
Weighing babies Bourke Street Baby Clinic 1914
William West and Martha (nee Sparks), far right, middle row, holding their baby son Bill West c1900
Young Australians, Sydney Harbour, 1919
88 year old Rita remembers childhood years in Leichhardt & Petersham c1930
Bonney Djuric on Parramatta Girls' Home 2009
Edda Boyd talks about her childhood in Glebe in the 1950s, October 2007
Excerpt of oral history interview with Jane Lanyon about life as a child in the inner city during the Depression, by historian Sue Rosen at Redfern, 19 November 1994
George Bates recalls the day when he buried Henry Lawson's cattle dog in North Sydney c1929, interviewed 1986
Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about anti-German sentiment during World War I, recorded 1986
Mr Jack Healy recalls boyhood swimming rituals in the Georges River, interviewed in 1986
Mr James William Beale talks about his first job in the Liverpool telephone exchange in 1913, interviewed in 1986
Mr Joseph Bradshaw remembers working as a child on a farm in Liverpool c1910-1925, interviewed in 1986
Mr Stanley Everett remembers making crystal radio sets in the 1920s as a child in Liverpool, interviewed 1986
Mrs Carmel Amalfi, interviewed in 1986, describes her husband Angelo's work as a child on his father's farm in Liverpool in the 1930s
Mrs Dorothy Colburn, interviewed in 1986, recalls hazards associated with the Georges River in the 1930s
Mrs Edith Fitzpatrick recalls Cracker Night in the early twentieth century near Bringelly, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Elsie Collimore remembers Liverpool's outdoor cinema in the early 20th century, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Enid Borowsky talks in 1986 about working conditions in Liverpool's Challenge Woollen Mills c1930s
Mrs Enid and Mr Carl Borowsky recall learning to swim in the Georges River in the 1920s, interviewed 1986
Mrs Evelyn Chapple remembers hazards encountered while walking to school in the early 20th century, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Florence Starr recalls making garden stakes in the 1920s for Chinese market gardeners in Austral, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Jessie La Trobe describes delivering newspapers to military camps during World War II, interviewed in 1986
Mrs Marjorie Gough recalls knitting for soldiers in World Wars I and II, interviewed in 1986
Mrs May Rae recalls her father's work for Challenge Woollen Mills, Liverpool, interviewed in 1986
Norma Ingram, founding administrator, on Murawina 2006