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Cleveland House [from Bedford Street]

Photograph by Stewart Watters of Cleveland House.

A girl making a bed in a dormitory at the Home of the Good Shepherd girls home, Ashfield

This is a digital copy of a black and white image from the John Mulligan Photograph Collection, ca. 1960-1976.

St Magdalen’s Retreat, circa 1965

In 1885, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan purchased Tempe House and renamed it “St Magdalen’s Retreat”. It was sometimes referred to as the Good Samaritan Convent.

Cleveland House [from Chalmers Street]

Photograph by Stewart Watters of Cleveland House

Children with polio at Margaret Reid Hospital, N.S.W. Society for Crippled Children, St. Ives

This image shows children dancing around a maypole.

Exterior of Margaret Reid Hospital, N.S.W. Society for Crippled Children, St. Ives

This image shows the grounds and the building of the Margaret Reid Orthopaedic Hospital for Crippled Children.

The laundry building at St Magdalen’s Retreat, Arncliffe, 1899

When the Sisters of the Good Samaritan owned Tempe House (which they renamed St Magdalen’s Retreat) they operated a laundry on the site.

Dining Room and Dormitory (Monte Pio)

This image shows the outside windows of the dining room and dormitory of the Bishop Murray Memorial Home.