Living in Tin: The Bungalow, Alice Springs, 1914-1929

by Linda Wells

The Bungalow began in 1914, as a tin shed in the small colonial outpost of Alice Springs. It was built initially to house Topsy Smith, of Arabana descent, and her seven children after their Welsh-born father, Bill Smith, had died. Over the years that followed, many more children with Aboriginal mothers and (largely absent) white fathers were brought to live at the Bungalow until, by 1929, when it was relocated out of town, about sixty children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1761095161
• ISBN13: 9781761095160
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"