Description: This is a copy of a photograph that was published in Emma Russell’s 1998 book, Fairlea: The history of a women’s prison in Australia 1956 – 96.
The caption reads: “Built in 1848 within the grounds of Yarra Park for the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, this building retained its institutional character when it became the home of Fairhaven, a venereal diseases hospital, in 1927, and then for Fairlea women’s prison in 1956.
