This is a photograph of the dining room at the King Edward Home. It shows the girls seated at two tables in the small room, older girls eating at a large table in the middle of the room, and younger children at a small table off to the side.
This image shows girls in a room at the King Edward Home for Girls, Newcastle. The girls, who are all wearing aprons, are seated and standing around a piano, which is being played by a staff member. The room is decorated with flags, bunting, paper lanterns, and posters.
This is a photograph of Gosford Training School. It shows the farmyard and farm buildings in the foreground, with training school buildings behind them. The school is surrounded by bushland.
This is a photograph of the boys dormitory at Gosford Training School. It shows three rows of steel-framed beds and bed-side dressers in a long, high-ceilinged hall.
This is an artwork of the Female Orphan School at Parramatta. It shows three large buildings on top of a hill facing the Parramatta River, with bushland in the background.
This is a photograph shopwing six boys milking cows in the dairy at Berry Training Farm.
This photograph shows boys in formation on the deck of the NSS Sobraon. The boys’ brass band is standing at the front, and the boys standing behind are all holding rifles. All boys are wearing white naval-style uniforms. This image was published in Children of the Back Lanes: destitute and neglected children in colonial New…
This is a photograph of a classroom full of boys at Berry Training Farm. The class holds approximately 40 boys, who are seated facing a blackboard (but turned around to pose for the camera). A teacher stands next to the blackboard, written on which is a lesson about the composition of milk.
This photograph shows the receiving house at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children. This building would have been the first one entered by children who were newly admitted to the asylum. This image was published in Children of the Back Lanes: destitute and neglected children in colonial New South Wales in 1986. The original image…
This photograph shows boys in the dining hall under deck on the NSS Sobraon. The boys are dressed in white naval-style uniforms, and are seated on benches at long tables. Staff members can be seen walking amongst the tables. This image was published in Children of the Back Lanes: destitute and neglected children in colonial…
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