This site consists of featured stories, digitised and transcribed documents, images and education activities.
The stories are listed on the home page of the site. The menu on each story page links to relevant documents and educational material. If you are on any other page, the menu will link back to the relevant story.
The documents are linked to the story pages and educational material. The site map lists all of the documents and story pages. This site uses a short title to describe each document. Each document also has a formal description (VPRS ... ), that should be used when citing the document.
The education activities are available from the list on the education page.
It is not necessary to look at pages in a particular order.
If you are looking for a specific topic, you can browse the story pages, the timeline or the glossary, or you can use the keyword search to bring up mentions of words or phrases.
You can change the text size of the site using your browser. For most browsers, choose a text size from the View --> Text Size menu.
Do you find this online exhibition useful? We welcome any comments or queries you have about this site or rhe information presented here. You can email Public Record Office Victoria through ask.prov@dvc.vic.gov.au, or contact us by telephone or post.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the donors of material for reproduction in this exhibition, credited individually throughout the site. For their advice and assistance we would like to thank Richard Berman Harman, Georgina Briscoe, Fred Cahir, Ian Clarke, Koora Cooper, Jason Eades, Joy Elley, Marie Fels, Denise Geraghty, Loretta Glass, Libby Hart, Helen Harris, Jacqualine Hollingworth, Nadja Mack, Jan McDonald, Paul Paton, Loretta Glass, Gary Presland, Dianne Reilly, Ross Harrison Snow, Caitlin Stone and Judy Williams.
PROV volunteers: Barbara Addie, Elizabeth Buckle, John Campbell, Graeme Dawson, Sue Dawson, Bernadette Griffiths, Irene Kearsey, Val Latimer, Keneth MacKenzie, Maureen Molloy, Vicky Montgomery, Liz Raven and Keith Thomas.
PROV staff: Kim Burrell, Laura Daniele, Diane Gardiner, Sebastian Gurciullo, Allison Hunter, Colin Kemp, Susie Leehane, Barry O'Connor, Louisa Scott, Meredith Sherlock, Georgina Snaddon, Angela Swindle, Emma Toon and Daniel Wilksch.
Design: Michael Kratofil, of Hyperlink - www.hyperlink.com.au
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