Description: This photograph shows the receiving house at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children. This building would have been the first one entered by children who were newly admitted to the asylum.
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 Archives of New South Wales. This image has been dated as 1916, however as the asylum had closed by this date it is assumed that this image was taken slightly earlier than 1916.
