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The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria

ISSN 1832-2522

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2008 - Number 7

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Editorial

Sebastian Gurciullo...

A R T I C L E S

Detail of N Caire, Ostlers Creek. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

Italian Speakers on the Walhalla Goldfield:

A Micro-History Approach
Annamaria Davine


Detail of a photograph of Mont Park Hospital, undated, 20.3 x 25.4 cm. Reproduced with the permission of Iliya Bircanin

From Mental Hygiene to Community Mental Health:

Psychiatrists and Victorian Public Administration from the 1940s to 1990s
Belinda Robson


Detail of a letter from Caroline Bulmer to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, 8 September 1913. PROV, VPRS 1694/P0, Unit 6, Bundle 2

'Give to us the People we would Love to be amongst us':

The Aboriginal Campaign against Caroline Bulmer's Eviction from Lake Tyers Aboriginal Station, 1913-14
Victoria Haskins


F O R U M

Detail of a photograph of a locomotive and horse team on Henry's tramline, c. 1908. Courtesy of Birregurra District Historical Centre

'A lonely, narrow valley':

Teaching at an Otways Outpost
Peter Davies


Detail of William Henry Mortimer, carte-de-visite with hand-coloured photograph, c.1835-c.1850. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

Wanted! Honourable Gentlemen:

Select Applicants for the Position of Deputy Registrar for Collingwood in 1864
Jenny Carter


Details of portraits of the Reverend Hugh Blair and his wife Annie. Colac and District Historical Society

Colac 1857:

Snapshot of a Colonial Settlement
Dawn Peel


Detail of a photograph of a brooch made by Rosenthal, Aronson & Company, before c. 1880, synthetic stone, punch marked RA & Co 9 carat. Courtesy CGC Gold Pty Ltd

A Jewellery Manufactory in Melbourne:

Rosenthal, Aronson & Company
Ruth Dwyer


Detail of a photograph of Northcote High School Orchestra, c. 1930s. Courtesy Northcote High School

'The present depression has brought me down to zero':

Northcote High School during the 1930s
Karin Derkley




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2007 - Number 6

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Winner of the Australian Society of Archivists
2007 Mander Jones Award Category 2A:
Best publication that uses, features or interprets
Australian archives, written by or on behalf of a corporate body

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Editorial

Sebastian Gurciullo

A R T I C L E S

Detail of a photograph by Nicholas Caire, Girls Play Ground [Kew Asylum], c. 1900, photograph. Courtesy of the Kew Cottages Historical Society

'Made enquiries, can elicit no history of injury':

Researching the History of Institutional Abuse in the Archives
Lee-Ann Monk


Detail of a photograph of Vaughan Springs, overlooking the Loddon River. Photograph copyright Ben Mountford 2006

Court records and cultural landscapes:

Rethinking the Chinese gold seekers in central Victoria
Keir Reeves and Benjamin Mountford


Detail of a photograph of the Ironbark Chinese Village, nineteenth-century Bendigo (precise date unknown). Photograph courtesy of Dennis O'Hoy

The Things that Unite:

Inquests into Chinese Deaths on the Bendigo Goldfields 1854-65
Valerie Lovejoy


F O R U M

Detail of a photograph of Loch Primary School, c. 1905. Photograph courtesy of Loch & District Historical Group

'The Township is a Rising One':

The growth of the town of Loch and its school
Lyn Payne


Detail of the Plan, Elevation, Section, and Perspective View for a Model National School, used to assist The Sovereign Hill Museums Association's re-creation of the Red Hill National School. PROV, VPRS 4857/P0 Plan For A Model National School, Unit 1

Merely Corroborative Detail:

The use of public records at the Sovereign Hill Museums Association, Ballarat
Jan Croggon


Detail of a photograph of Parliament House Melbourne, with cable tram in Spring Street at bottom right. PROV, VPRS 12800/P1 Photographic Collection: Railway Negatives: Alpha-numeric Systems, H 4910

Landing A Vote:

The past importance of land ownership as an electoral qualification in Victoria
Sonia Jennings


Detail of Map of the Colony of Victoria, PROV, VPRS 7664/P3 Unregistered Maps and Plans (Legislative Assembly), Unit 1

Putting Colonial Victoria on the Map:

The 1862 Land Act and its 'big map'
Cate Elkner


Detail of a plan of the Collingwood Stockade Asylum shortly before it made way for the Lee Street Primary School. PROV, VPRS 795/P0 Building Files: Primary Schools, Unit 696, School No. 1252 Carlton, Lee St

Her Majesty's Collingwood Stockade:

A Snapshot of Gold Rush Victoria
Peter Andrew Barrett


Detail of a photograph of the Miller St entrance to Merri Primary School, showing the recent Merri rainbow serpent and the brickwork of the original building. Photograph Abigail Belfrage March 2007

A Stroll Along the Merri:

Evoking a landscape through archival research
Abigail Belfrage


Detail of a prison photograph of John Hassett, c. 1890. PROV, VPRS 515/P0 Central Register of Male Prisoners, Unit 42, Folio 490 (detail)

Very Serious Doubts:

The Case of Hassett and De Le Veilless
Alain Hosking


Jordan's pipe, exhibit 'D' in Minnie's murder trial. PROV, VPRS 30/P0 Criminal Trial Briefs, Unit 984, Case number 364/1894

Love Is Murder:

The fated affair of Frederick Jordan and Minnie Hicks
Noni Dowling




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2006 - Number 5

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Winner of the Australian Society of Archivists
2006 Mander Jones Award Category 2A:
Best publication that uses, features or interprets
Australian archives, written by or on behalf of a corporate body

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Editorial

Sebastian Gurciullo

A R T I C L E S

Detail of the sworn statement of Horatio Ellerman from PROV, VPRS 30/P0, unit 188, NCR 174

'Unequal Justice':

Colonial Law and the Shooting of Jim Crow
Barry Patton


Detail of Reception of HRH Duke of Edinburgh at Castlemaine [picture], in Illustrated Australian News, February 4, 1868, print: wood engraving. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria

Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue?

The Trial of James Acoy and the Chinese on the Mount Alexander Diggings
Keir Reeves


F O R U M

Detail of a photograph of dead leaves found with a long dark human hair in the bag with Bertha's body in the Yarra, police evidence from PROV, VPRS 30/P, Unit 2001, Melbourne Supreme Court, Case number 151 of 15 March 1923. Photograph by Akiko Kawasaki.

'She Had Not a Baby Face':

The Death of Bertha Coughlan
Zoe Carthew


Detail of a photograph of students in the library at Prahran Technical School, Hornby Street Windsor, from PROV, VPRS 9626/P1, Unit 3

'The Best Time of their Lives':

Researching the History of Prahran Technical School
Judith Buckrich




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September 2005, Number 4

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Editorial


Sebastian Gurciullo

Detail from St Vincent de Paul's Orphanage, Emerald Hill, 1862 Engraving by Arthur Willmore. Courtesy MacKillop Family Services Archives

'A Secure Safeguard of the Children's Morals':

Catholic Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century Victoria
Jill Barnard


Detail from Eugène von Guérard, The barter, 1854, oil on canvas. Collection: Geelong Gallery Gift of W Max Bell and Norman Belcher, 1923

Dallong - Possum Skin Rugs:

A Study of an Inter-Cultural Trade Item in Victoria
Fred Cahir




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2004 - Number 3

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Foreword

Justine Heazlewood
Public Record Office Victoria

Detail from plans of the City Morgue

Death, Decency and the Dead-House:

The City Morgue in Colonial Melbourne
Andrew Brown-May and Simon Cooke


Detail from Punch cartoon

Keeping Order:

Motor-Car Regulation and the Defeat of Victoria's 1905 Motor-Car Bill
Rick Clapton


John McEwen, governor of Castlemaine Gaol, image courtesy Castlemaine Historical Society, VCMH 1999-01

Home Truths:

Stories from the Nineteenth-Century Castlemaine Police Courts
Heather Holst




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July 2003 - Number 2

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The first years of the Victorian Archives

Prof. EW (Bill) Russell and Charlie Farrugia




April 2003 - Number 1

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Celebrating 30 Years of the Victorian Public Records Act

Prof. EW (Bill) Russell and Charlie Farrugia



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