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.
Published in the Australasian Sketcher.
Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Shows group of young girls in smocks, others dressed for travelling, standing at the entrance to the orphanage.
This image shows some of the buildings on the St Augustine’s site, seen from Aphrasia Street. According to the St Joseph’s College archivist, the buildings seen here were not used as accommodation for St Augustine’s, but instead were used as the boarding section for the college.
Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Includes oval portraits of Mr. Exon, bust, to left, and Mrs. Wooton, half-length, to right; front of the building with boys and girls standing in rows; two children milking, four boys sitting on the fence behind them watching; cots, cradles, cast-iron beds in the dormitory.
Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Shows group of young girls, wearing white smocks and straw hats, playing with dolls and prams.
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