Admission Registers (1864-1895 and 1869-1888) - contains names with the ages and dates of admission, under whose authority a girl was admitted, for instance, a Justice of the Peace, and the length of time she spent in the School. The Registers sometimes include the date of discharge, where the girl went to work, and the names of the parents. There are two overlapping volumes, possibly kept by two people. After 1880, the entries seem to be irregular.
Notebook recording small sums apparently given to individual girls and held by the School for personal expenses or spending money: e.g. 'from mother', 'from Aunt', 'prize money', 'ribbon 4d', 'church 3d', 'Christmas 1s.'
Rough record for the Committee, in alphabetical book, 'of the girls at present in the Institution and those leaving for service so that the Committee may not lose sight of them...'List of Girls (1902-1945) - this list is alphabetical. It contains basic information about the names, ages, dates of admission, and dates and places of service for most of the girls. In some instances, the entries are fuller, including the religions of girls, their condition on arrival, who they married, and their behaviour.
Minutes of monthly meetings of the Ladies' Committee of Management dealing with maintenance, welfare, accounts, etc. This collection consists of eleven quarto volumes. These records are the committee records only. There are no personal records of the girls or their background or committal orders. The minutes of the monthly committee meetings dealt with bills, expenses, staff matters and the welfare of the children, and note briefly admissions and decisions on discharge of girls to service or to relatives, if any
Including draft of amended rules & proposal for cookery instruction, no date; letter of resignation from Assistant Matron Spotswood, 1910; letter to Matron from Ada Hume, Macquarie Plains on health of girl in her service; and from J.S. Scarr, ironmonger, offering damaged goods; from M.D. Downie requesting girl; letters on estate of Miss C.A. Fry, 1921, 1946; list of girls in residence August 1941; R.A.C. picnic for girls, 1944; notice of meeting to confirm resolution to transfer school to Salvation Army 1944; inventories 1939, 1945; newspaper cutting on transfer of school, 1 February 1945.
Photograph of the girls and staff of the Girls Industrial School when it was located at Barrack Square in 1883. Photograph shows part of the building with a group of girls and staff. (See the minutes of the GIS for 1883) Photographer was H. Bailey, Hobart.
