VPRS 17049 Subject / Proper Name / Street Name Index to Correspondence Files

This is the controlling index for the Corporate Services Correspondence Files located in VPRS 3183/P13 and VPRS 17019This card index is divided into Subject, Proper Name (name of correspondent) and Address (address of property the correspondence concerns).The Corporate Services Correspondence Files Series is a continuation of the central hardcopy filing system for City of Melbourne correspondence that was used within the Town Clerk Files series VPRS 3181 and 3183. Files contain registered correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, and often include plans, reports, images and other related documents.Correspondence was allocated a file number according to the year in which it was first received and all subsequent correspondence relating to that matter was placed on the same file in chronological order. Often correspondence on a particular subject spanned multiple years.By 1990, an electronic Records Management System was introduced which decentralised the filing for all correspondence.