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Treasurer's expenditure accounts and a notebook recording girls pocket money.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
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Treasurer's expenditure accounts and a notebook recording girls pocket money.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Admission Registers (1864-1895 and 1869-1888) - contains names with the ages and dates of admission, under whose authority a girl was admitted, for instance, a Justice of the Peace, and the length of time she spent in the School. The Registers sometimes include the date of discharge, where the girl went to work, and the names of the parents. There are two overlapping volumes, possibly kept by two people. After 1880, the entries seem to be irregular.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Annual Reports and Regulations (1867, 1879-1944, 1867-8, 1879, 1882, 1886, 1888-90, 1944) They concern milestones of the School, its financial situation, staffing, donations, and outings or treats. Children who die are usually named.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Annual Reports and Regulations
1867-8, 1879, 1882-3, 1886, 1888-90, 1894-1944, Constitution 1925
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Miscellaneous Committee Papers (c1910-1945) containing a draft of amended rules and a proposal for teaching cookery; a letter of resignation from Assistant Matron Spotswood in 1910 because 'I do not feel equal to the duties'; a letter to the Matron from Ada Hume about the health of a girl employed by her; an offer of damaged goods from an ironmonger; letters about the estate of Miss CA Fry (1921 and 1946): a list of girls in 1941; a notice of the meeting to confirm the transfer of the School to the Salvation Army in February 1944; inventories (1939 and 1945); and a newspaper cutting about the transfer of the School (1 February 1945).
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Girls Industrial School Hobart Collection
Collection consists of management committee records, admissions register and accounts of the Girls Industrial School Hobart, also 2 photographs.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Girls pocket money, 25 Oct. - Dec. 1913
Notebook recording small sums apparently given to individual girls and held by the School for personal expenses or spending money: e.g. 'from mother', 'from Aunt', 'prize money', 'ribbon 4d', 'church 3d', 'Christmas 1s.'
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Rough record for the Committee, in alphabetical book, 'of the girls at present in the Institution and those leaving for service so that the Committee may not lose sight of them...'List of Girls (1902-1945) - this list is alphabetical. It contains basic information about the names, ages, dates of admission, and dates and places of service for most of the girls. In some instances, the entries are fuller, including the religions of girls, their condition on arrival, who they married, and their behaviour.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Minutes of the Management Committee (June 1862-February 1945) - The committee met monthly to deal with all aspects of the School's life. Their minutes contain information about the staff, meals, bedding, the girls' clothing, their activities (mostly needlework, laundry, and schooling), the circumstances of their parents, reasons for committal, behaviour, and illnesses or deaths, as well as destinations and progress after leaving the home. They name a number of girls. They also include the handover of the School to the Salvation Army in 1945. There are some newspaper clippings, mostly concerning Annual General Meetings.
Minutes of the Governors and Trustees (July-November 1882) - concern plans, estimates, and tenders for repairs to the roof of Kensington House, Davey Street.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Minutes of Governors and Trustees, July-November 1882
To consider plans and estimates of repairs to Kensington House, Davey Street and tenders for roofing.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Minutes of Management Committee
Minutes of monthly meetings of the Ladies' Committee of Management dealing with maintenance, welfare, accounts, etc. This collection consists of eleven quarto volumes. These records are the committee records only. There are no personal records of the girls or their background or committal orders. The minutes of the monthly committee meetings dealt with bills, expenses, staff matters and the welfare of the children, and note briefly admissions and decisions on discharge of girls to service or to relatives, if any
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Notes on history and typed copy of W. Hudspeth's brief address on handing school over to Salvation army.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Including draft of amended rules & proposal for cookery instruction, no date; letter of resignation from Assistant Matron Spotswood, 1910; letter to Matron from Ada Hume, Macquarie Plains on health of girl in her service; and from J.S. Scarr, ironmonger, offering damaged goods; from M.D. Downie requesting girl; letters on estate of Miss C.A. Fry, 1921, 1946; list of girls in residence August 1941; R.A.C. picnic for girls, 1944; notice of meeting to confirm resolution to transfer school to Salvation Army 1944; inventories 1939, 1945; newspaper cutting on transfer of school, 1 February 1945.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Photograph of Industrial School, Barrack Square
Photograph of the girls and staff of the Girls Industrial School when it was located at Barrack Square in 1883. Photograph shows part of the building with a group of girls and staff. (See the minutes of the GIS for 1883) Photographer was H. Bailey, Hobart.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Photographs of Industrial School, and John Pearce's New Town residence.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Admission registers and a list of girls at the institution and those leaving for service.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Residence at New Town for John Pearce, by Henry Hunter
Photo by Albert Sargeant of Hunter's design Maylands, Pirie St., New Town.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Treasurer's expenditure accounts
Analysis of expenditure for wages, provisions, clothing, fuel and light, stationery and printing, furniture and repairs, soap.
Girls Industrial School Hobart
Notes on history from minutes and typed copy of Hudspeth's brief address on handing over school to the Salvation Army.
Girls Industrial School Hobart