Girls pictured in the playroom of Müller's Orphanage House No.2. Former orphans often talked of themselves as being a 'No.4 boy' or a 'No.1 girl'.

Some children had relatives who visited them and sent them letters, parcels and gifts of money, but others had no one. Those children who received money had to contribute a percentage into a common pool, to be shared out among the less privileged.

Early 1900s