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Albury Base Hospital

The collection includes historic documents, nurses uniforms, photographs, publications, memories captured on film, medical instruments and an iron lung.

The Albury Base Hospital is one of the oldest institutions in Albury. It was established in 1861 and has intimate personal and family associations related to birth, death, injury and illness. It demonstrates strong community links, and for many years was dependent on local charity.

The institution has had three different locations, Thurgoona Street, Wodonga Place and Borella Road. The status of the hospital was upgraded from that of District Hospital to Base Hospital in 1953. In 2011 it became the Albury campus of Albury Wodonga Health Service.

It was, and still is, important to the local economy and to local people as a large workplace. Through the health and medical services it offers, it has made a major contribution to the quality of life of residents in the Albury Wodonga region.

The collection includes historic documents, nurses uniforms, photographs, publications, memories captured on film, medical instruments and an iron lung.

Stethoscope, 1950. ARM 12.018
Stethoscope, 1950. ARM 12.018
Sister Tamplin at Albury District Hospital, 1930. ARM 12.216.01
Sister Tamplin at Albury District Hospital, 1930. ARM 12.216.01
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Blackie House (Obstetrics Block) located on the corner of Wodonga Place and Smollett Street Albury, 1947. Much of the finance for the building came from an endowment from the estate of John Blackie, an Albury Pharmacist. ARM 12.314
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Male patient and two nurses in a ward decorated for Christmas, 1920. ARM 12.369.01
Nurses Baker, Gugger and Frohling sitting in front of Abury Base Hospital, 1975. ARM 12.377.01
Nurses Baker, Gugger and Frohling sitting in front of Abury Base Hospital, 1975. ARM 12.377.01
Ceramic plate made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Albury Base Hospital, 1985. ARM 12.457
Ceramic plate made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Albury Base Hospital, 1985. ARM 12.457
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Open Up and Say Aaaagh

This exhibition celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the Albury Base Hospital in 2011.

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Bonegilla Migration

For over 40 years, AlburyCity has been collecting objects owned by former residents of the migrant reception centre; things that people brought from their homeland that gave them comfort, photographs, domestic appliances, children's toys, books and clothing. AlburyCity also actively collects written memories from those who passed through Bonegilla.

Harmony in the Home

In 1940, Albury’s 2AY radio station produced a recipe book of “very excellent recipes” sent in by members of the Harmony in the Home Club. The years of World War II had been challenging, but Jean Cleary, Helen Burnett and others from the club hoped that proceeds from the sale of the book would “bring Christmas cheer to many folk, young and old, in hospitals and orphanages” and that the year ahead would bring unexpected joys, fulfilled wishes and peace to all.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

AlburyCity acknowledges the Wiradjuri people as the traditional custodians of the land in which we live and work and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, culture, tradition and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that contribute to our community.