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The Male Orphan School and Farm, three miles from Liverpool, April 1840

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Description: This is a sketch of the Male Orphan School site at Bonnyrigg, near Liverpool and Cabramatta. The drawing shows a cottage (the school master’s house) in the foreground, with a line of long, single-storey buildings (the orphanage buildings) stretching off to one side.

This image was published in Children of the Back Lanes: destitute and neglected children in colonial New South Wales in 1986. The original image is held by the State Library of New South Wales.

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