The Female Orphan school, George Street, Sydney, 1813

Description: This is a sketch of the Female Orphan School building on George Street, Sydney, as it was in 1813. It shows a large two-storey building with a stone wall in front of it, surrounded by smaller cottages. The building was used as the Female Orphan School until 1818, and then used as the Male Orphan School until 1823. This image was published in Children of the Back Lanes: destitute and neglected children in colonial New South Wales in 1986, and had previously been published in Serenade to Sydney: Some Historical Landmarks in 1968. The original artist and publisher is not known.
Date: 1813
Source: Children of the Back Lanes:destitute and neglected children in colonial New South Wales, John ramsland
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