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Archives and Exhibitions
Amber Evangelista
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Exhibitions at VPM
- Launch a new major temporary
exhibition annually
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Exhibitions Amber Evangelista UNCLASSIFIED Exhibitions at VPM - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Archives and Exhibitions Amber Evangelista UNCLASSIFIED Exhibitions at VPM Launch a new major temporary exhibition annually UNCLASSIFIED Collection Kelly Gang Collection Evidence and files from
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Collection
- Kelly Gang Collection
- Evidence and files from major
cases
- Police Records
- Convict registers
- Criminal Records
- Technology
- Crime scene
photographs
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Archives
Two separate bodies within Victoria Police:
- Victoria Police
Museum & Historical Services Unit
- Victoria Police
Archives
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Police archives and PROV
- PROV holds extensive records relating to crime
and justice
- Share many of the same file types (eg Prisoner
Records)
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Olga Radalyski
- “Russian” fraudster
(Elizabeth Elburn)
- Body in the boot box
murder 1898
- Two different sets of
records
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Gaps in our archives
- Internal record keeping
was historically haphazard
- Records at PROV have
filled our gaps
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Women in policing
- First women employed
- fficially by Victoria
Police in 1917
- Celebratory exhibition at
Victoria Police Museum
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Women in policing
- Existing research was fairly old and needed
to be clarified / confirmed
- Very few traces of early history of WIP in our
- wn archives
- Pointed at a link with famous suffragettes
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Proving the suffragette link
- Researchers had
claimed involvement of Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein.
- Petitioned the CCP for
the appointment of women police.
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Image courtesy SLV
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PROV gives us proof
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And more!
- Internal
correspondence
- Examples of responses
to the employment of women
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Adding more to the picture
- Early campaigns to
employ women
- Previously not
connected to concept of WIP
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The take-away lesson
- Good record keeping saved an important
story from being forgotten/ destroyed.
- Archivists are secret super heroes
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Telling the story
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Telling the story
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