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Connecting with Ida

12/01/201114/06/2022 admin

by Cath on 12 January, 2011

ABC Open’s Now and Then project links old and new photographs. In one example Alex Smee used an image of Broome’s Holy Child Orphanage in 1941 to link with a new photograph of Ida Kelly, a former resident of the Children’s Home.

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