Description: ‘St Kevin’s Orphanage Industrial and Reformatory School for Roman Catholic Boys, near Leederville’ is an image included (p.24) in the Report by the Superintendent of Public Charities and Inspector of Industrial and Reformatory Schools, etc., for the year ending 31 December 1900.
This image shows a group of approximately 30 boys and several men in front of a large three-storey brick building. The younger boys are sitting on the ground, with older boys and men standing behind them. Several of the older boys are holding shovels, and appear to be digging into the ground.