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Title
File 15: Sydney Rescue Society, nurses, children, hospital, volunteers, 1930s / photographed by Max Dupain
Call number
ON 609/Box 28/nos. 869-891
Level of description
file
Date

1930s
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
9589453
Physical Description
23 negatives - black & white
Scope and Content
23 negatives of staff from the Sydney Rescue Work Society exiting the building on Commonwealth St in Surry Hills, a nurse holding a young boy, children looking out from a window and standing in a line, a group of men in suits sitting around a table with papers, women in a library or bookshop, children sitting at small tables doing activities such as colouring in, a young girl reading, children eating at a dining table, a nurse attending to young children in cots, women in a hospital ward, and female medical staff administering to a patient (possibly anaesthetic or chloroform).
Access Conditions

This material is held in cold storage and requires 3 working days notice to retrieve. Please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Titled and dated from original glassine bag housing negatives.
General note

Some negatives are in strips of 2.
Signatures / Inscriptions

Additional information on glassine bag read, "1", "*", "People", "103" and "Sydney 30s".
Name
Sydney Rescue Work Society
Topic
charitable organisations
nurses
orphans (people)
children
patients
hospital wards
Place
Commonwealth Street (Surry Hills, N.S.W.)
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