Childhoods
past
Social events
Introduction | Social events | Political events | Special events | Personal and cultural identity | Hermannsberg and Aurukun school
School and family life | Writing patterns | Fingerpainting | Observations of daily life | 'Reach for the apple' | Frances Derham
Children use drawing to document their feelings and views about the world around them. During the Great Depression, children recorded the changing social order with images of unemployment and child labour. On the European front during the 1940s, children witnessed war as it evolved and the impact on their lives is revealed in their drawings.
