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Image: Institution in Brighton circa 1880

Photograph of the South Australian Institution for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb at Brighton, SA. The photograph was probably taken in around 1880. The building was later called Townsend House.

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State Library of South Australia, B-3101. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3101
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