The Collection
With some exceptions PROV’s holdings date from 1836 when Captain William Lonsdale was appointed as Police Magistrate and a formal government presence in the Port Phillip District of the Colony of New South Wales, as Victoria was then known, was established. PROV’s holdings include most 19th and 20th century central correspondence systems for major Victorian public offices as well as records of:
- courts, tribunals, Royal Commissions etc
- municipalities and other local governing bodies
- statutory authorities such as the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (Wikipedia link) and the State Bank of Victoria (Wikipedia link)
- police, prisons and health and welfare institutions
- education, immigration, Aboriginal affairs, Crown land, infrastructure
- etc
Records associated with both the Kelly Gang outbreak and the Eureka Stockade uprising are available online and have been added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register.
Members of the public can contribute to their knowledge of Victorian history to the Public Record Office Victoria's Wiki, through editing articles, uploading and transcribing digitized images of records.
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