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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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Archives and Exhibitions

Amber Evangelista

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Exhibitions at VPM

  • Launch a new major temporary

exhibition annually

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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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