This is a sketch of “Leal House” on Commercial Road in Prahran. It shows a large two-storey stone house with gardens in front. Leal House housed the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institute from 1864 to 1866, and the Victorian Asylum and School for the Blind from 1866 to 1868. No date was provided with this…
This is an image taken at the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind in Melbourne. It shows approximately 13 children and young women seated around a table knitting. This image is part of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Collection at Museums Victoria.
This is an image of children in a classroom at the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Melbourne. It shows approximately 20 children seated at desks in a classroom There is a woman seated immediately in front of some of the children holding an open book in her lap, and a man standing at a…
This image of the the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind shows a large, three-storey bluestone building with a central tower and two-storey wings on either side. In front of the building are gardens, lawns and trees. This image is part of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind Collection at Museums Victoria.
This is an image of the Werribee Boys’ Farm. It shows a house with an adjoining small cottage or outbuildings situated on a slight hill and surrounded by trees. This image was published in The West Australian on 17 October 1932 alongside an article about the Werribee Boys’ Home.
Melbourne, Vic. 1943-03-23. The new Welfare house for Dependants of RAAF personnel situated at the corner of Alma Road and Chapel Street, East St Kilda. The latest project of the Air Force Auxiliaries Committee. Shown: Mrs WA McDonald (holding a briefcase) and other members of the committee
This is an image of the Geelong Female Refuge, taken in approximately 1888. It shows the refuge as a long, single-storey wooden building. Two women holding babies are standing on the verandah, and two toddlers are standing in the garden in front of the refuge.
This is an engraving of the Quarantine Station at Point Nepean in 1877, also known as the Sanatory Station. It had previously been used by the Department of Industrial and Reformatory Schools for the quarantining of children with infectious diseases.
This is an image of Somers House (also called Swinburne House), which was used by the Victoria Children’s Aid Society as a children’s home from 1968 to 1985. The image shows a large single-storey wooden house with a sign out the front the reads “Country Women’s Association of Victoria, Somers House Holiday Flats, Car Entrance…
This is an image of Lyndon Lodge, Auburn, published in The Age on 22 March 1947. The image was published alongside an article titled with the caption ‘Milestone in work of salvation army. Care of Youth in Adolescence;. It was published with the caption: “Home for the Homeless. For Boys: Lyndon Lodge, Auburn, which has…
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