Series identifierMON494Series titleSlides of Birch CottageSeries descriptionSix colour slides taken by Mary Nixon of the Faculty of Education. Transparencies depict scenes of kindergarten children playing and were taken in October 1968. The Monash Pre-School Play Centre, organised and run by a committee of staff members' wives, used Birch Cottage from approx. 1964. The cottage was managed by the University Union, and used by sporting clubs as well as the pre-school. It was located in the vicinity of the Main Library.