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Berry Street Foundling Home, East Melbourne, Donation Box

This is a photograph of the Berry Street Foundling Home donation box, with “Please, Help the Babies” written on the lid.

Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home, Foundation Stone

This is an image of the Foundation Stone of the Foundling Hospital and Infants Home. The inscription reads: Foundling Hospital and Infants Home. This stone was laid by Lady Talbot, wife of the Governor of Victoria, to commemorate the opening of the Foundling Wing, 14th September 1905.

Hurlingham, Brighton

The Roman Catholic Convent and Female Orphanage

This is a photograph of the main building of Our Lady’s Orphanage, later known as st Catherine’s Orphanage, at Aphrasia Street, Newtown, Geelong. It shows a medium sized two-storey bluestone building with the main driveway leading up to it, and with a long single-storey range extending off to one side.

Looking Across a Lake and Lawns to the Orphanage at Bendigo

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Try Society Halls, South Yarra [Hawksburn]

Black and white photoprint of the impressive two-storey buildings (since demolished) owned by the Try Society in Cromwell Road. A horse and jinker stands in the foreground. The Society was founded and managed by Mr William Forster.