The Bungalow
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The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locations in Alice Springs, Jay Creek and the
Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs, 1927
Tire games at The Bungalow when at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station, 1935
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.
The Bungalow
…hours. Standley sometimes provided evening classes to "half-caste" adults at The Bungalow. Overnight these "half-caste" children were cared for by Topsy Smith, an Arabana woman who had recently arrived in Stuart, following the death of her husband Bill Smith, a miner working in Arltunga. Smith and seven of…
Topsy Smith stands at the back, seventh from the right.