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Image of St Catherine’s Orphanage Brooklyn, viewed from the water

This is a copy of an image from the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation archives collection. The image shows the buildings of St Catherine’s Orphanage.

Brooklyn Hotel, 1890s

This is a copy of an image from the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation archives collection. The image shows the Brooklyn Hotel in the 1890s, which later became St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies and St Catherine’s Orphanage.

Hotel that became St Carthage’s College and Convent of Mercy

This is a copy of an image from the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation archives collection.

Tresillian home, Wollstonecraft, North Sydney

This image shows the front of the Home, Tresillian Wollstonecraft and gardens.

Tresillian Home, Willoughby

This is an image of the outside of the Tresillian North Home. Nurses with prams and cots can be seen outside in the garden.

Official Opening of ‘Rosalind Black’ Ward

This image shows a group of adults standing outside the front of a building with a cot on the lawn, in front of the new hospital wing at the Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies.

Tresillian home, Greycliffe

This image shows the building where the Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies and later the Tresillian Vaucluse operated in.

Tresillian Home: Vaucluse

This image shows the dining room at Tresillian Vaucluse.

The Lady Edeline Hospital for Babies, ‘Greycliffe’

This image shows the building, Greycliffe, where The Lady Edeline Hospital for Babies operated in.

Greycliffe Hospital was in a home built for the daughter of W C Wentworth, opposite Vaucluse House. There was a tunnel from Vaucluse House to Greycliffe which the nurses occasionally used – Greycliffe Children’s Hospital, NSW

This image shows nurses and babies from the Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies outside in a garden. The image is in the collection At Work and Play – images of rural life in NSW 1880-1940. This photo is undated, the date included is an estimate.