This building was once the first Mission House of the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name.
This is an image of the St Vincent’s Boys’ Home “Build A Boy” donation box.
This is a photograph of the Berry Street Foundling Home donation box, with “Please, Help the Babies” written on the lid.
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.
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.
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