Record series
Negatives of Photographs [Publications Branch]
VPRS 14517
1967 - 1967
Open
North Melbourne
Agencies
This record series was created by:
Agencies responsible for this record series: Department of Education ( VA 3098 ): 1992 - present
Date Range
Series date range: 1967
Series in custody:
1967
Contents in custody:
1950 - 1967
Function / Content
The negatives in this series were accumulated by the Publications Unit of the Department of Education and Training. They depict schools, school students, teachers, maps, educational activities and other education-related subject-matter.VPRS 14515 File Prints of Photographs [Publications Branch] consists of prints created from this series. Most of the prints have FILE printed in the centre of the image, and the number handwritten in the corner. VPRS 14517 can be used to make copies not including the FILE label. Note that a useable negative may not exist for each file photograph, and vice-versa.
The method used to index these images is subject to further research.
How to use the records
Use VPRS 14516 Index to File Prints and Negatives of Photographs [Publications Branch] to locate images of interest and note the alpha-numeric identifiers. Consult the records details and order the units containing the images.Recordkeeping system
NB re Date RangesThe negatives in this series were accumulated together by the Publications Branch in c. 1967 however the negatives themselves date from c.1950 - 1967.
This series was transferred from the Education History Unit of the Department of Education and Training.
The transfer consisted of more than thirty thousand photographs. Most of these were stored in a discernible order. For approximately one thousand miscellaneous photographs and other items, no order was apparent. Some of these miscellaneous photographs were identified as having been created from the negatives in VPRS 14517. These photographs are of various sizes and have been put back into their place in the sequence.
A considerable number of the negatives were not with this transfer - their location is unknown. Further negatives were damaged when received. The identifying numbers of these images are listed in Unit Details 2 (images not with transfer) and Unit Details 3 (damaged).
