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Title
Buildings at Seaforth Boys' Home, Gosnells [picture]
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Notes
Title devised by cataloguer.
Two of these photographs were received as glass negatives held in Dr Battye's collection of glass negative (8956B) and also appear in an album of photographs of Seaforth Boys' Home held at BA953. Captions and date span have been supplied by the donor of the album.
Negatives have been made from prints (not the same prints as are in the album held by this library).
Negatives found in an envelope labelled: Salvation Army - Major Seaton.
Summary
Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Home was for boys who were 'retarded and mentally deficient' and was staffed by specially trained teachers supplied by the Education Department (1921-1960s)
