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Online Catalogue –
PROV’s Digitised Records and Online Indexes

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Digitised records and database indexes can be accessed online by clicking on the entries below.  If you click on a link to a database index you will be taken directly to the index.  If you click on a link to digitised records you will be taken to a page where you can download a pdf of the digitised record.  Further instructions on downloading, and links back to the relevant Series information in the catalogue will be found on that page.

 

If you are viewing this information as a printed PROVguide you can access this list of online records by going to the Access the Collection page on the PROV website and clicking on the link to PROV's digitised records and online indexes.  

Education

Database Indexes

Index to VPRS 907/P0 Teacher Examination Papers, 1863-1872

VPRS 13719/P1 Database Index to Teacher Record Books, 1863-1959

Digitised Records

VPRS 65/P0 Copy of Inward and Outward Correspondence, Board of Education, 1849-1851

VPRS 5675/P0 Index to Special Case Files, Education Department, 1862-1977

VPRS 5676/P0 Register of Special Case Files, Education Department, 1852-1977

Health, Mental Health and Welfare

Digitised Records

VPRS 7446/P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums, 1849-1885

VPRS 7427/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ararat Asylum, 1867-1906

VPRS 7426/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat Asylum, 1893-1907

VPRS 7428/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1907

VPRS 8236/P1 Register of Patients, Ballarat/Sunbury Asylums, 1877-1920

VPRS 7395/P1 Case Books of Male Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1867-1912

VPRS 7396/P1 Case Books of Female Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1878-1912

VPRS 7493/P1 Register of Patients, Bendigo Receiving Ward, 1874-1908

VPRS 7721/P1 Register of Patients, Collingwood Asylum, 1866-1873

VPRS 7425/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1906

VPRS 7690/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1914

VPRS 7680/P1 Register of Patients, Kew Asylum, 1871-1919

VPRS 7423/P1 Nominal Register of Patients, Royal Park Hospital for the Insane, 1907-1913

VPRS 7490/P1 Asylum Records [Case Books], Sunnyside Licensed House, 1905-1915

VPRS 7422/P1 Index to Male and Female Case Books, Yarra Bend Asylum, 1848-1912

Immigration

Database Indexes

Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923

Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871

Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1886


Land, Places and Local Government

Database Index

Index to VPRS 7882/P1 Public Building Files, 1874 - 1988

Index to Public Works Department (Building Services Agency) Plans

Index to VPRS 7/P0 Treasurer’s Correspondence Relating to Pastoral Runs, 1838 -1855

Digitised Records

VPRS 8904/P1 Subject Index to Town Clerks Correspondence Files, City of Melbourne, 1913-1983

Legal, Justice and Consumer Affairs

Database Indexes

Index to VPRS 815/P0 Court of Insolvency Records, Geelong [1855-57 portion only]

Index to VPRS 75/P0 Certificate of Discharge, Court of Insolvency, Melbourne, 1848-1875

Index to VPRS 12024/P1 Companies and Miscellaneous Applications Files, 1884 - 1922

Index to VPRS 13353 Court of Petty Sessions Register of Applications for the Victorian Old-age Pension, North Melbourne, 1902 - c.1908

Digitised Records

VPRS 515/P0 Central Register of Male Prisoners [selected volumes only]

VPRS 110/P0 Register of Convicts, c1838-1852  

VPRS 108/P0 Register, Police Magistrate, Portland, 1840-1853

VPRS 5335/P0 Index to Divorce Cause Books, 1861-1924

VPRS 10867/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Male Prisoners, 1868-1947

VPRS 10879/P0 Alphabetical Index to Central Register of Female Prisoners, 1857-1948

 

PROVguide 68 Ordering Wills and Probate Records provides instructions for locating, viewing and downloading digitised wills (up to 1925) and probate records (nineteenth century) on PROV's online catalogue.

Registration and Licensing

Database Index

Index to VPRS 7/P0 Treasurer’s Correspondence Relating to Publicans, 1838 -1855

Transport and Infrastructure

Digitised Records

VPRS 12800 and VPRS 12903 Public Transport Corporation Photographic Collection Railway Negatives

Sport, Recreation and Culture

Database Indexes

Index to VPRS 840 International Exhibition Melbourne Photograph Albums, 1888

VPRS 8851/P1 Database of Records in VPRS 8850 of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens and Related Organisations, 1857-1991

Digitised Records

VPRS 10742/P1 Photographic Negatives [1956 Melbourne Olympics Photographic Collection]

PROV’s Online Exhibitions and Images Online

For a range of online exhibitions and images online see: www.prov.vic.gov.au/online/default.asp


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