Description: ‘Swan Orphanage Industrial School for Protestant Boys, Guildford [Middle Swan]’ is an image included (after p.22) in the Report by the Superintendent of Public Charities and Inspector of Industrial and Reformatory Schools, etc., for the year ending 31 December 1900. The caption reads, ‘The boys in this picture are wearing their working clothes’.
This image shows a group of approximately 40 boys standing in front of a large three-storey brick building. Some of the older boys are holding long-handled tools, including hoes and shovels.