The Eindecker model has aesthetic significance and reinforces the fact that the internee community, which was educated and cultured, included wealthy industrialists, doctors, academics, publishers, professionals and entrepreneurs.
The Trial Bay Internees Collection interprets the story and provides evidence of the experience of the German internee’s life at Trial Bay, the attitudes of the German internees to the war and internment and their relationships to other German communities in NSW both interred and free.
Discover the book ‘The Gentle Art of Photography’. The book was used by the internees at Trial Bay Gaol to take and develop photographs of the Trial Bay Camp.
The Miniature Dolls Furniture is a part of a wider collection of objects used by the internees that are integral to the fabric of the Trial Bay Gaol heritage site and provides the distinctive character of the place.
The Gaol Cell Door is a part of a collection of objects integral to the fabric of the Trial Bay Gaol heritage site and provides the distinctive character of the place.
The lathe used by Trial Bay internees has aesthetic significance in the design and manufacture of toys for children interred at other internment camps.
The Jewellery Box is a part of a collection of objects integral to the fabric of the Trial Bay Gaol heritage site and provides the distinctive character of the place.
Discover the Kodak film tank used by German POWs who where interred at Trial Bay Gaol between 1915-1918.
Discover the photography frames used by World War 1 German POWs interned at the Trial Bay Gaol Internment Camp between 1915 and 1918 to take and develop photographs of the Camp, its environment and the activities that took place there.
See the collection of buttons that were discovered recently in the drain pipes at Trial Bay Gaol. The buttons are from the clothes of Australian military guards and German prisoners of war circa 1915.
