Stuart Arms Hotel
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The Stuart Arms Hotel was the first hotel in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Located on the corner of Parsons and Todd Street, it was centre of social life for 96 years.
The Stuart Arms Hotel, 1924
Men in front of the Stuart Arms Hotel bar in 1921
Peter O'Grady in the Stuart Arms Hotel bar in 1921
Bob Purvis Sr of Woodgreen Station outside Stuart Arms in 1922
Topsy Smith
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Topsy Smith was an Arabana pioneer of Central Australia in the Northern Territory. She spent her life caring for Indigenous children at an institution known as The Bungalow in Alice Springs.
Stuart Arms Hotel
…foreclosed in 1902, and it was sold to William Garnet South in 1903. In 1914 "The Bungalow" was built at the rear of the hotel, sharing the lot, where Topsy Smith and Mariah McDonald, cared for "halfe-caste" children in a galvanised iron shed that Robert Stott had built; 16 children were living there by November…
Topsy Smith stands at the back, seventh from the right.