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Ballarat Orphanage

The Melbourne Orphanage

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.

The Melbourne Orphanage

Image published in the Illustrated Australian News. Shows group of young girls, wearing white smocks and straw hats, playing with dolls and prams.

Sketches at the Victorian Infant Asylum

This engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian News.

The old Protestant Orphanage, Geelong, Victoria

The building was situated at Herne Hill, Geelong. Built in 1885 and vacated in 1933, when the Orphanage moved to new premises at Belmont, Geelong.