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Convict Hulk Success at Williamstown

The former prison hulk HM Success was the site of a reformatory for boys.

Melbourne Orphan Asylum

This 4 page digitised document is an appeal for benefactors to donate to the Melbourne Orphanage.

Melbourne Orphan Asylum, Fifteenth Annual Report

This 22 page digitised document is a copy of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum’s Annual Report for 1866.

Bottle sterilising rack, Methodist Babies’ Home

Museum Victoria’s ‘The story of Melbourne’ exhibition features a bottle sterilising rack used at Methodist Babies’ Home from 1929. This webpage is no longer in operation. this URL is taken from the wayback machine and is dated 13 March 2018.