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Treasurer's expenditure accounts and a notebook recording girls pocket money.

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.

1. 1864-1895
2. 1869-1888

Annual Reports and Regulations (1867, 1879-1944, 1867-8, 1879, 1882, 1886, 1888-90, 1944) They concern milestones of the School, its financial situation, staffing, donations, and outings or treats. Children who die are usually named.

1867-8, 1879, 1882-3, 1886, 1888-90, 1894-1944, Constitution 1925

Miscellaneous Committee Papers (c1910-1945) containing a draft of amended rules and a proposal for teaching cookery; a letter of resignation from Assistant Matron Spotswood in 1910 because 'I do not feel equal to the duties'; a letter to the Matron from Ada Hume about the health of a girl employed by her; an offer of damaged goods from an ironmonger; letters about the estate of Miss CA Fry (1921 and 1946): a list of girls in 1941; a notice of the meeting to confirm the transfer of the School to the Salvation Army in February 1944; inventories (1939 and 1945); and a newspaper cutting about the transfer of the School (1 February 1945).

Collection consists of management committee records, admissions register and accounts of the Girls Industrial School Hobart, also 2 photographs.

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 the Management Committee (June 1862-February 1945) - The committee met monthly to deal with all aspects of the School's life. Their minutes contain information about the staff, meals, bedding, the girls' clothing, their activities (mostly needlework, laundry, and schooling), the circumstances of their parents, reasons for committal, behaviour, and illnesses or deaths, as well as destinations and progress after leaving the home. They name a number of girls. They also include the handover of the School to the Salvation Army in 1945. There are some newspaper clippings, mostly concerning Annual General Meetings.
Minutes of the Governors and Trustees (July-November 1882) - concern plans, estimates, and tenders for repairs to the roof of Kensington House, Davey Street.

To consider plans and estimates of repairs to Kensington House, Davey Street and tenders for roofing.

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

1. June 1862 - Dec. 1878
2. Jan. 1879 - July 1896
3. Aug. 1896 - Mar. 1904
4. Apr. 1904 - Dec. 1910
5. Jan. 1911 - Apr. 1916
6. May 1916 - May 1925
7. June 1925 - Jan. 1929
8. Feb. 1929 - Mar. 1934
9. Apr. 1934 - Jan. 1939
10. Feb. 1939 - Feb. 1943
11. Mar. 1943 - Feb. 1945

Notes on history and typed copy of W. Hudspeth's brief address on handing school over to Salvation army.

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.

Photographs of Industrial School, and John Pearce's New Town residence.

Admission registers and a list of girls at the institution and those leaving for service.

Photo by Albert Sargeant of Hunter's design Maylands, Pirie St., New Town.

Analysis of expenditure for wages, provisions, clothing, fuel and light, stationery and printing, furniture and repairs, soap.

1. 1882-1930
2. 1930-1934

Notes on history from minutes and typed copy of Hudspeth's brief address on handing over school to the Salvation Army.