Women at AIM mission house at Murgon c1936

Miss Shankleton, an AIM missionary, arrives at Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement around 1934 and works here for many years. During her time in Cherbourg she took many photographs. Her collection gives an insight into the work of the Aborigines Inland Mission at Cherbourg.

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