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Welfare Institutions

Berry Street 140 Years: Restoring Trust and Hope

Catalogue number: 
embk0100
Content or description: 
A history of Berry Street, formerly Berry Street Babies Home. Numerous photos, mostly unidentified, which show life inside the Home.
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  • 1150 reads

East Melbourne, Berry Street

Catalogue number: 
emvf0040
Content or description: 
Newspaper cliipping - historical. Photos The Age, 1 November 2002. Also clipping announcing that Berry Street will move out of East Melbourne. 19 October 2005.
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  • 2713 reads

East Melbourne, Old Men's Shelter

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0133-p6
Content or description: 
Tells of the background leading up to its establishment and the history of the Old Men's Shelter in Powlett Reserve. EMHS Newsletter September 2002.
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  • 2518 reads

East Melbourne, Old Men's Shelter, Powlett Reserve

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Catalogue number: 
emvf0137
Content or description: 
Source material for article in EMHS newsletter September 2002. Includes photos, Heritage Victoria report to Heritage Council, MCC minutes, Heritage Victoria statement of significance.
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  • 2576 reads

For the Upholding of Womanhood.

Catalogue number: 
emrp0001-199911-p116-127
Content or description: 
Discusses the rise of hostels providing accommodation for the growing number of young girls coming to Melbourne in search of work during the inter-war years.
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  • 1971 reads

Looking back Looking forward

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Catalogue number: 
embk0097
Content or description: 
The story of 'Berry Street' Child and Family Care 1877-1977. Berry Street was founded in 1877 in Fitzroy as 'The Victorian Infant Asylum'.
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  • 1154 reads

No Longer by Gaslight: The First 100 Years of the Adult Deaf Society of Victoria

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Catalogue number: 
embk0004
Content or description: 
History of the Deaf Society from 1884-1984. Includes much information about Jolimont Square and conversion work undertaken. Photos.
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  • 2923 reads

Push to add police site to Yarra parkland

Catalogue number: 
emvf0336
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping about proposal by Melbourne City Council to demolish old police station and add the land to Yarra Park, along with former army barracks site on Swan Street, as compensation for land
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  • 1742 reads

Shelter protected

Catalogue number: 
emvf0349
Content or description: 
Newspaper clipping reporting that Mary MacKillop House in Albert Street, East Melbourne, has been added to the register of Heritage Victoria.
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  • 1464 reads

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