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State schools and orphanages, Queensland

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3085F

Scope and Contents

Album measuring 400 x 260 mm, containing watercolour plans and elevations, and three more mounted photographs of architectural designs for schools and orphanages. The title on the front cover is blocked in gold and reads: 'Queensland Court/Colonial and Indian Exhibition, sketch plans and photographs of state schools and orphanages, Queensland.' Plates 15, 16 and 18 photographed by IDC.

An Act of 1875 laid an obligation on the administration to provide 'free, secular, and compulsory' schooling for children. Wherever twenty or more children of school age could be gathered together, the government was pledged to build a school and supply teachers, parents contributing one-fifth of the cost of the building. The designs in the album show basic configurations for various classes of buildings of this type. With Queensland's expansion as one of the richer colonies the total expenditure on education in 1884 was £150,160, £37,000 being spent on building state schools, of which there were 263 at the end of that year. The overall cost of educating one child was calculated to be £5. 7s. 8 1/2 d. per annum.

Dates

  • Creation: 1886

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

20 item(s) (20 images)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented to the Royal Colonial Institute by the Executive Commissioner for Queensland at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, October 1887.

Existence and Location of Copies

This collection is available on microfiche: Australasia, fiche number 20.

Related Materials

Companion volume to Y3085G.

General

This collection level description was entered by WS using information from the original typescript catalogue.

Originator(s)

Unknown

Includes index.
Date
2006-08-02 14:07:43+00:00
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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