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Female School of Industry, 1834

Female School of Industry, 1834

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Walker, F

State Library of New South Wales

Colonial architecture

Vocational education

Sydney Female School of Industry

School established in 1826 to train girls as domestic workers. The school also provided instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, spinning, knitting and housework.

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Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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