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1006627
  • Title
    File 31: Photographs, chiefly relating to Red Cross cosmetics and craft programs, directed at the elderly and disabled at Bodington Hospital, ca. 1947-1990.
  • Call number
    PXE 1692/vol. 31
  • Level of description
    file
  • Date

    ca. 1947-1990
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    1006627
  • Physical Description
    171 photographic prints
  • Scope and Content
    1a. Chelsea flower show, Sydney. Madeline Moore, teacher, later Director of Handcrafts, with handmade baskets, 1960s
    1b. Completed articles made by disabled veterans, Handcraft Department, 1985
    2a.Handcraft Centre, H.Q. Mrs Latchford, Mrs Beames (trainees), 15 March 1985
    2b. Admiring basket making by veterans. Madeline Moore, Director of Handcrafts in right background, 1970
    3a. William Lawler,79, attending Red Cross Handcrafts Service for jewellery-making, 1985
    3b. "A Tipsy Trio" puppets made by trainees, 1980s?/ Country Life Photo
    4a. Botanical Gardens, Sydney. Handcraft art classes, 1985/ Monte Luke P/L.
    4b. Mrs Dorothy Beames, trainee, jewellery class. Handcraft Dept., 1980s/ Annual Report 1985
    5. Botanical Gardens, Sydney. Handcraft art teacher with disabled trainee, 1980s/ Monte Luke P/L
    6. Trainee making a template for (jewellery box?), 1980s/ David Franklin, North Bondi
    7a. Pottery display, 1980s?/ Noel Rubie Pty Ltd, Sydney
    7b. Ex-serviceman learning to throw on an electric potter wheel, 1980s/ The Leicagraph Co Pty Ltd, North Sydney
    8a. Pottery making, 1980s/ Red Cross Publicity Photograph
    8b. Pottery making, 1980s/ Red Cross Publicity Photograph
    9. Handcrafts, finished articles on display, 1980s? / David Franklin North Bondi
    10. Handcrafts - display of finished goods for sale made by disabled ex-servicemen, 1970s/ David Frankline Photographers, Leichardt
    11a. Handcrafts, finished articles, weaving section, 1970s?
    11b. Handcrafts, finished articles, weaving section, 1970s?
    12a. Loom weaving, trainees, disabled ex-servicemen, 1970s?
    12b. Loom weaving, trainees, disabled ex-servicemen, 1970s?
    13. Easter Show. Display of goods made by sick & disabled ex-servicemen & women, 1970s? / David Franklin, North Bondi
    14. Ribbons won at Easter Show, display of baskets etc. made in Handcrafts Department, 1987
    15. Driver brings elderly man to Handcraft lessons in special bus, 1982
    16. Easter Show. Handcraft exhibits, 1985 /The Leicagraph Co Pty Ltd, Sydney
    17. Display of finished goods, Red Cross Display, handcraft and pictorial, NRMA exhibition, 1970s / Phil Ward Studios, Sydney
    18. Learning new skills, elderly and incapacitated people, 1970s?
    19. Elderly handcrafts trainee with finished doll, 1970s
    20. Elderly trainees, knitting and basketmaking, 1970s?
    21a. Finished pottery vase, 1970s?
    21b. Pounsett Soom on crutches in handcrafts room/ appeared in Red Cross Review February 1988
    22a. Display of various finished baskets, 1970s / The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd. North Sydney
    22b. Madeline Moore, Handcraft Director, with basket maker, 1970s?
    23a. Loom and finished articles.
    23b. Newspaper cutting with photograph and article by Jenni Gilbert about Mrs Jeanette Barlow, one of the handcraft trainees/Article from Sun (newspaper)11/10/1977
    24. Stuffed cat, handcrafts, 1970s
    25a. Basket making, 1970s, Tori Wilkinson, handcraft teacher, 1960s?/ Red Cross Publicity Photograph
    25b. Finished baskets, 1970s
    26a. Handcrafts, jewellery making, 1970s
    26b. Royal Easter Show. Handcrafts trainees with displayed items , 1970s?
    27a. Royal Easter Show. Handcrafts, display of finished goods, 1988
    27b. Royal Easter Show. Handcrafts, display of finished goods, 1988
    27c. Royal Easter Show. Handcrafts, dislay of finished good, 1988
    27d. Royal Easter Show. Handcrafts, display of finished goods, 1988
    28a. Handcrafts trainees at work, 1990s?
    28b. Handcrafts trainees at work, 1990s?
    28c. Handcrafts trainees at work, 1990s?
    28d. Handcrafts trainees at work, 190s?
    29a. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    29b. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    29c. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    29d. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    30a. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    30b. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    30c. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    30d. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    31a. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    31b. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    31c. Handcrafts trainees at work
    31d. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    32a. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    32b. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    32c. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    32d. Handcrafts trainees at work, June 1976
    33a. Working at basketweaving, 1970s
    33b. Disabled ex-serviceman arrives by lift at Red Cross House, 1970s
    33c. Cris Holland, Transport Manager, with Handcrafts patients and bus at Red Cross House, 1970s? 33c (second image) Cris Holland, Transport Manager, with 12 handcraft patients at Red Cross House
    33d. Ros Brown (Left, with flowers), teacher; Madeline Moore (centre), Handcrafts Director, 1970s
    34b. Photograph of 3 silver sterling spoons made by Raymond Linney in Handcrafts,Top spoon was sent to H.M. Margrethe of Denmark, 1988
    34a. Handcrafts, weaving setup, 1980s
    34c. Handcrafts, potter throwing, 1980s?
    34d. Mr Raymond Linney, maker of sterling server spoon sent to H.M. Queen Margrethe of Denmark, 1988
    35a. Handcrafts, display of finished goods, 1980s?
    35b. Handcrafts, teaching basket weaving, 1980s / Sydney Morning Herald
    36a. Loading baskets into Red Cross Handcraft Teaching Service van, 1950s / Sydney Morning Herald
    36b. Parked Red Cross Handcraft Teaching Service van, 1950s
    37a. Elderly man with crutch being assisted into handcrafts department, 1970s?
    37b. Handcrafts, trainee ex-servicemen at work, 19 March 1979
    38a. Baskets, a special order produced in Red Cross Handcrafts department, 1989
    38b. Handcrafts Shop, customers and baskets, 1980s
    39a. Handcrafts: trainees with finished baskets, 1980s
    39b. Handcrafts, trainees with finished baskets, 1980s
    39c. Handcrafts, demonstrating basketmaking, 1980s?
    39d. Wheelchair patient and Red Cross minibus, 1980s?
    39e. Wheelchair patient and Red Cross minibus, 1980s ?
    40a. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    40b. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    40c. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    40d. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, foreground: Mrs E. Thompsett (Narrabeen); background: Mrs D. Crago (Elizabeth Bay), 1980s?
    41a. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    41b. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    41c. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    41d. Mr Grey with Miss Merle Tysoe, handcraft instructor at Red Cross House
    42a. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    42b. Handcrafts, men and women trainees, 1980s?
    42c. Handcraft Christmas Party, 1986
    42d. [Handcraft Christmas Party, 1986?]
    43a. Handcraft display, 1960s/Noel Rubie Pty. Ltd. Jamieson St, Sydney
    43b. Handcraft display, 1960s/ Phil Ward Studios, 296 Pitt Street, Sydney
    44. Display of goods for Royal Easter Show, 1960s ?
    45. Stand at Royal Easter Show, 1960s,/ David Franklin, 283 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt
    46. Disabled ex-servicemen’s handcrafts, 1960s /David Franklin, 130 Murriverie Rd, North Bondi
    47. Dame Margot Fonteyn speaking to ex-servicemen while visiting Handcrafts Department, 1960/ David Franklin
    48. Royal Easter Show. Display of handcrafts, 1947/ Noel Rubie Pty Ltd, 24 Jamieson Street, Sydney
    49a. Pam Brown, teacher at Pottery Department, Handcrafts, 1987
    49b. Dorothy Costa, Red Cross social worker talks to migrants, 1957
    49c. Soft toy making, Mrs Smith, a handcraft trainee, shows her toy making to an interested migrant while another inspects the display, 1957
    49d. Mrs Smith, handcraft trainee with the soft toy she has just completed, 1957
    50a. Mrs Gharlardi chats to Mrs Shore, Red Cross VAD, during a break from her work at the loom, 1957
    50b. Handcraft staff. Back, left to right. Pat Miller, Yvonne Franges, Merle Tyson, Madeleine Moore, (Director) Front, left to right. Catherine Saba, Hannah Hall, Moi Lee, Betty Hil,. Dec 1988
    50c. Petersham Town Hall. Conference for elderly migrants, Red Cross staff, volunteers and handcraft trainees at a display and conference for elderly migrants, 15 Sept 1982
    50d. Miss Brown, head teacher of the Red Cross Handcraft department, explains and illustrates the work of the department to Arabic migrants, 1982
    51a. Teaching spinning, 1952
    51b. Ray Linney was referred to the Red Cross handcraft Service by Veterans' Affairs, his first interest was leatherwork but he's moved into jewellery work now, making silver and pewter items for his wife and friends, 1950s
    52a. No. 1 York Street Red Cross Handcraft Department. Ex servicemen making baskets , 1952/ Publicity Department Red Cross House , Jamison Street, Sydney
    52b. Mr Douglas Hay of Bossley Park, shows four year old Suzanne Duncan of Campbelltown, two of the dolls he made for a special 10 day sale which began yesterday (8 Oct) on the ground floor of Hordern Bros store in George Street. The
    goods in the Red Cross 'shop' have been masde by disabled ex-servicemen and women at the Red Cross discharged Servicemen's Handcraft Centre in York Street. Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 1963. Photo: Sydney Morning Herald.
    53a. Lady Woodward, President NSW Red Cross, puts the finishing touches on two reindeer made by Mr Arthur Burrows of Ryde when she made her first official visit to Red Cross handcrafts centre on 1 October 1957/ Sydney Morning Herald
    photo
    53b. Trainees in the Handcraft Department new pottery room, 1957/ Country Life photo
    54a. Lady Woodward, President NSW Division of Red Cross in the Pottery Section of Handcrafts Centre on her first official visit, 1 October 1957/ Australian Consolidated Press photo
    54b. Ex Servicement with pottery wheel, Hancraft Department. 1957/ Red Cross Publicity Photograph
    55a. Mr G Boyd making cord mat, Miss Kessler, 1973/ John Fairfax & Sons Ltd
    55b. Bodington Sign. Sign reads Bodington Red Cross Hospital Care for the Aged. Bodington Hospital is in a peaceful corner of the Blue Mountains, 1989
    56a. Lady de L'isle visits Red Cross Handcrafts Department, 1961/ Australian Consolidated Press photo
    56b. Lady de L'isle visits Red Cross Handcrafts Department, talking to basket makers, 1961/ Australian Consolidated Press photo
    57a. Finished baskets, 1989
    57b. Learning to weave, 1989/ The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd.
    58a. Weaving, 1989
    58b. Weaving,two men, one is Ernest Grey, 1989
    59a. Learning handcrafts in the Bodington Hospital activities room, 1989
    59b. Learning handcrafts in the Bodington Hospital acitivities room, basket making, 1989
    60a. Learninghandcrafts in the Bodington Hospital activities room, basket making, 1989
    60b. Putting the finishing touches to the Bodington Snow Man, made by a patient in Bodington Hospital, 1989
    61a. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    61b. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    61c. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    61d. Viewof Bodington Hospital,Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    62a. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    62b. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    62c. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    62d. View of Bodington Hospital, Wentworth Falls, 1980s
    63a. Early view of Bodington Hospital,no date
    63b. Early view around Bodington Hospital, showing horse and cart, no date
    64a. Early view of Bodington Hospital. No date.
    64b. Early view of Bodington Hospital. No date.
    65a. Chalets at Bodington Hospital, no date. [Photocopy]
    65b. Back view of Bodington Hospital, no date. [Photocopy]
    66a. Mr John Beeney, Bodington Hospital patient, no date. [Photocopy]
    66b. Mr Phillip Goldberg, Bodington Hospital patient, no date. [Photocopy]
    67a. Mrs Anne Hannam, Bodington Hospital patient, 1989. [Photocopy]
    67b. Mrs Margaret Dent and Mary Boxel Bodington Hospital patients, 1989. [Photocopy]
    68a. Mr Albert Deayton, Bodington Hospital patient, 1989. [Photocopy]
    68b. Mr Harry Lloyd and Mary Boxell, Bodington Hospital, 1989. [Photocopy]
    69a. Bodington Hospital Creative Writing Group, L to R: Jim Beeney, Anne Hannan, Harry Lloyd, Phillip Goldberg, Albert Deayton, Margaret Dent, Mary Boxwll, Marion Glen, 1989
    69b. Mr Harry Lloyd, Bodington Hospital patient, 1989. [Photocopy]
    70a. Mrs Marion Glen, Bodington Hospital patient, 1989. [Photocopy]
    70b. Nancy Crews, Bodington Hospital patient. 1989
    71a. Decorating the Christmas Tree, 1994/ Newcastle Herald
    71b. Bodington Hospital has an extensive library of large-print books, 1989
    72a. A male resident at Bodington hospital, 1989
    72b. A female resident at Bodington Hospital, 1989
    73a. Don Newbury (wearing glasses by door), Bodington Hospital
    73b. Bodington Hospital
    73c. Bodington Hospital
    73d. Bodington Hospital
    74a. Miss Lavinia Locket, Bodington Hospital, 1988
    74b. Ida Poole, Bodington Hospital, 1988
    74c. Training school at Bodington Hospital in the snow, 1984
    74d. Group of residents from Bodington Hospital.
    75a. View of Bodington, 1997
    75b. Basketmaking, Bodington Hospital, 1997
    75c. Bodington Hospital, 1997
    75d. Bodington Hospital grounds, 1997
    76a. Handcraft Activities Room, Bodington Hospital
    76b. Learning handcrafts in the Bodington Hospital Activities Room, 1988
    76c. Residents visiting the Library at Bodington Hospital, 1988
    76d. Pageant at Bodington Hospital, 1988
    77a. Memorial to Mr Colin Graham, a garden pavilion was built in the grounds of The Lady Gowrie Home at Gordon. The building was a memorial from Dr C.E. Vaughan whose lifelong friend Col Graham had been. Col died on 28 Dec 1960. He had
    worked with Branches for 30 years. L to R: Mr C. Lennon, Mr J.F. Clark (Chairman NSW), Matron Holcombe, Dr C. Vaughan, 23 August 1961/ Photo by Timothy Collis-Bird
    77b. Postcards of Lady Gowrie Red Cross Convalescent home, Gordon, NSW.
    78a. Lady Gowrie Convalescent Home, Gordon/ The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd. Same image as 80b.
    78b. Lady Gowrie Convalescent Home, Gordon/ The Leicagraph Co. Pty. Ltd. Same image as 80b.
    79a. Lady Gowrie Convalescent Home, Gordon, Persia Porter, Commandant VADS, in uniform on right/Noel Rubie Pty. Ltd. Photography
    79b. John Woolcott-Forbes with wife and child (second marriage), in front of The Lady Gowrie Red Cross Convalescent Home, Gordon. Woolcott-Forbes, a financier, was brought back from overseas and jailed for a number of years in the
    1930s. The Red Cross purchased his home at Gordon in 1940 from his bankrupt estate and this became The LadyGowrie Red Cross Convalescent Home/ John Fairfax photo
    80a. The Lady Gowrie Convalescent Home/ Noel Rubie Pty Ltd Photography
    80b. Matron Vivian Holcombe, The Lady Gowrie Red Cross Convalescent Home, 1958
    81. Lady Gowrie Convalescent Home, Gordon. Note: same images at 78a and 78b
    82. Read Admiral Dovers visiting the Handcraft Centre at Graythwaite Red Cross Home/ Brian Bird photo
    83. Handcraft Staff. L-R: Miss Hannah Hall, Mrs Catherine Saba, Mrs Pat Miller, December 1988
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of creator plus 70 years.
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.
  • Description source

    The contents list is adapted from an inventory compiled by Red Cross volunteers.
  • Alphanumeric designations

    Red Cross Archives control number AL 032.
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