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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


  1. Archives and Exhibitions Amber Evangelista ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  2. Exhibitions at VPM • Launch a new major temporary exhibition annually ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  3. Collection • Kelly Gang Collection • Evidence and files from major cases • Police Records • Convict registers • Criminal Records • Technology • Crime scene photographs ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  4. Archives Two separate bodies within Victoria Police: • Victoria Police Museum & Historical Services Unit • Victoria Police Archives ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  5. Police archives and PROV • PROV holds extensive records relating to crime and justice • Share many of the same file types (eg Prisoner Records) ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  6. Olga Radalyski • “Russian” fraudster (Elizabeth Elburn) • Body in the boot box murder 1898 • Two different sets of records ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  7. Gaps in our archives • Internal record keeping was historically haphazard • Records at PROV have filled our gaps ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  8. Women in policing • First women employed officially by Victoria Police in 1917 • Celebratory exhibition at Victoria Police Museum ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  9. Women in policing • Existing research was fairly old and needed to be clarified / confirmed • Very few traces of early history of WIP in our own archives • Pointed at a link with famous suffragettes ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  10. Proving the suffragette link • Researchers had claimed involvement of Adela Pankhurst and Vida Goldstein. • Petitioned the CCP for the appointment of women police. Image courtesy ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​ SLV

  11. PROV gives us proof ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  12. And more! • Internal correspondence • Examples of responses to the employment of women ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  13. Adding more to the picture • Early campaigns to employ women • Previously not connected to concept of WIP ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  14. The take-away lesson • Good record keeping saved an important story from being forgotten/ destroyed. • Archivists are secret super heroes ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  15. Telling the story ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

  16. Telling the story ​‌ UNCLASSIFIED ‌ ​

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