Dr. Dill Macky Memorial Home for Children records and pictorial material, 1910-1983

MLMSS 4461
PXA 2125
R 2181

fonds

1910-1983

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Textual Records

889986

3.5 metres of textual material (17 boxes and 14 volumes)
20 photographic prints
1 rubber stamp
8 printing blocks

Reverend W. M. Dill Macky, 1849-1913, founded the home ca. 1909 under the auspices of the Australian Protestant Orphans' Society. The home closed in 1982

BOX 1
Annual meeting minutes of Australia Protestants Orphans Society 1915-1976 with insert including statements of accounts
Board meeting minutes, 1910-1920

BOX 2
Board meeting minutes, 1920-1945

BOX 3
Board meeting minutes, 1945-1968

BOX 4
Board meeting minutes, 1968-1979

BOX 5
Board meetings, rough minutes 1910-1912, with newscuttings, 1973
Board meetings Attendance books, 1935-1976
Visitors book, 1922-1940
Records relating to The Board
Inventory of Goods at new home, Albert Street, Strathfield, 1924-1963

BOXES 6-7
Correspondence, including plans of houses, inventories, bank statements, possibly balance sheets, insurance policy

BOX 8
Letter books, 1912-1917, 1920-1922

BOX 9
Ledger ( annual report and Auditors Report pasted in ), 1916-1924
Balance sheets 1942-1983, wanting 1951, 1955, 1959, 1964, 1967, 1982

BOX 10
Cashbooks, 1918-1936
Cash Book, 1922-1925
Receipt books, 1931-1945
Expenditure and Petty Cash Receipts from Collectors, 1957-1947

BOX 11
Postage books regarding Mortgages, 1960-1968
Wages books 1939-1975
Loose sheets regarding tax

BOX 12 (RESTRICTED)
Admissions, December 1920-March 1942

BOX 13 (RESTRICTED)
Roll Call 1924-1936 with list of illnesses, Children's Records
Returns regarding children on leave, etcetera, 1942-1949
Admissions, 1911-1933, Children's Records ( alphabetical listing )
Notifications of reception, 1920-1921, 1926-1956

BOX 14 (RESTRICTED)
Notifications of reception, 1956-1967
Loose Applications for Admission with attached correspondence, approximately 1966-1967
Admission Registers 1941-1967
Alphabetical list of children with ages, undated

BOX 15 (RESTRICTED)
Numerical information regarding children, 1941-1942, 1946-1968
Particulars of illness, 1941-1967
Notification of death
Discharge records, 1922-1968
List of children and maintenance payments, 1922-1932
Accounts regarding children, 1965
Records of payments from parents
Miscellaneous records regarding children

BOX 16
List of donors (4), Children's Records
Examples of collection books, cards, receipt books, etcetera, Children's Records

BOX 17
Printed material, Children's Records
Annual reports, 1911, 1911-1912, 1915, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1941-1949, 1952, 1958 (There are some annual reports pasted in minute books)
Rules and Regulations, 1911, 1914, 1922, 1943
Aims and Objects
Booklet. 1911
Souvenir programme of opening, 1911
Programme of Fair, 1911
Examples of stationery
Newscuttings
Rubber stamp
Typed history 2 pages ( Written after 1953)
Diary / Day books, 1937, 1939, 1940
Miscellaneous including wills, licences
Children's Records

Volume 18X (RESTRICTED)
Agreements to Pay for Board, 1921-1927

Volume 19X (RESTRICTED)
Applications for admission, ca. 1920s-1930s

Volume 20X (RESTRICTED)
Admissions register, 1919-1940

Volume 21X (RESTRICTED)
Admissions register, 1930-1940

Volume 22X
Ledger book, 1939-1944

Volume 23X
Ledger book, 1945-1950

Volume 24X
Ledger book, 1945-1952

Volume 25X
Ledger book, 1950-1956

Volume 26X
Ledger book, 1952-1959

Volume 27X
Ledger book, 1956-1960

Volume 28X
Ledger book, 1959-1962

Volume 29X
Ledger book, 1960-1965

Volume 30X
Ledger book, 1962-1965

Volume 31X
Ledger book, 1965-1966


PXA 2125
20 photographic prints (1 box)
Hand coloured portrait of Dill Macky; group portraits of boys ca 1915, children and matron, employees, children and babies; various gatherings on grounds of King Edward VII Home; various Dill Macky buildings and streetscapes of surrounding areas; Hope of Auburn Loyal Orange Lodge meeting and dinner function; three contact prints and hand written list of names and frame numbers; group of four girls receiving awards, 1953. Box also contains envelope from R. Heyes, solicitor, addressed to The Secretary, Australian Protestant Orphans' Society.


R 2181
1 rubber stamp
8 printing blocks
'Australian Protestant Orphans' Society & Home for Children' rubber st 8 printing blocks depicting various buildings at Dill Macky Home for Orphans, various King Edward VII Home, portrait of Dill Macky; printing proof of portrait of Dill Macky.

Partly restricted - This collection contains confidential, personal and/or culturally sensitive information: Applies to Boxes 12, 13, 14, 15, 18X, 19X, 20X and 21X concerning children in care. The Library requires you to sign an ‘Undertaking with regard to access’ for this collection to protect the privacy of individuals. This form will be supplied to you prior to access. Guidelines for accessing sensitive collections

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010