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Ormiston Ladies' College advertisements

East Melbourne

  • 101 Powlett Street

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Advertisement for Ormiston Ladies' College, from The Story of Ormiston Girls' School . Burchett Open full image ↗
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Advertisement for Ormiston Ladies' College, source unknown. Burchett Open full image ↗
Acquisition number
1543
Catalogue number
emdf0330
File name
DF0330
File location
Digital archive

Photos of two advertisments for Ormiston Ladies' College.  The school was first established c.1861 by Mrs Ainslie in George Street, East Melbourne. In 1862 she moved the school to 40 (now 101) Powlett Street as shown in the first advertisement. In 1868 Mrs Ainslie sold the school to Miss Nimmo who moved it to what is now kown as 179 Gipps Street, as shown in the second advertisement. The source of the first advertisement has not been identified, but the second comes from the school history, The Story of Ormiston Girls' School 1849-1964 (1964).

Item type
Advertisement
Building name
Ormiston
Subject address
101 Powlett Street, East Melbourne
179 Gipps Street, East Melbourne
Photographer
Winston Burchett
Date of publication or creation
1974c

History of item

  These photos are part of a collection of photos taken by Winston Burchett during research for his two books: East Melbourne Walkabout (1975) and East Melbourne 1837-1977: people places problems (1978)

Owner of original
East Melbourne Library

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