VPRS 12907 Photographic Collection: Photographic Prints and Slides:Tramways

This series consists of photographic prints and slides created by the agencies responsible for managing tramways in Victoria. Images depicted in this series include trams, personnel, accidents and, during the 1980s, buses operated by Government agencies.Between c 1990 and June 2000, all of the items in this series were maintained within a Photographic Collection that had been established by the Public Transport Corporation. This series is one of a number of series that have been created following transfer of the Photographic Collection to PROV.PRINTS AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING VIA THIS WEBSITEThese prints were made primarily to identify the negative containing the original image, although some prints were made by Photographic Library staff specifically for inclusion in this series. Three print sequences were created from different sequences of negatives. (The negatives sequences are yet to be processed by PROV.)Most of these prints have been pasted onto specially made cards which are, at a minimum level, annotated with the negative number. The majority of cards also record a category. subject, date of photograph, photographer and title of image.Unfortunately, the prints are not arranged according to the order imposed on the negatives. Rather, these have been arranged into broad categories and then by subject within these categories. Neither the broad categories or subjects were arranged in any discernable order. Consequently it was decided to register the prints into separate consignments according to the parent negative sequence, maintaining the order in which these prints were found. The consignments are as follows:- Prints from MMTB/STA & MTA negative single number sequence (refer to consignment P00001)This sequence was originally established by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in 1951 and was continued by Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Public Transport Corporation until 1992. Imagines were numbered sequentially in a sequence encompassing 1 - 21,499 all with an MMTB prefix.- Prints from Tramways "Historical" negative sequence (refer to consignment P0002)This sequence spans a small number of images that were deemed by the MMTB to have some historical value. The negatives were allocated numbers within the range H1 - H741. The actual date range spanned by these images is unknown.- Prints from MMTB/MTA & PTC accidents sequence (refer to P0003 consignment)This sequence consists of images documenting tramway accidents between 1980-1990 which were taken for claims purposes. The negatives in this sequence were numbered between 1-1676, each with an A prefix.SLIDES AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING VIA THIS WEBSITEThe slides in this series mostly depict images in colour and were taken from the 1950's onwards. Images have been arranged into three sequences by PROV staff, as follows:- MMTB/MTA & PTC slides; slide sheet order (refer to consignment P0004)All of the slides in this sequences were found stored within slide sheets. Each image contains a 2 number control number (e.g. 3 - 123). In this content the first number identifies the sheet and the second number identifies the position of the image within the sheet. Each individual image has been identified in the description list in the PROV online catalogue. There is no discernable order, chronological or otherwise, to these sheets. Essentially, the sheets are arranged in a random category then subject order much like the photographic prints.- a small number of "slide spares", date range unknown. (refer to consignment P0005), and- a sequence identified by the creating agencies as containing "Miscellaneous Slides" (refer to the P0006 consignment). This has been interpreted by PROV as meaning these images are not controlled in the sheet number sequence.

本系列藏品由维多利亚州有轨电车管理机构拍摄制作，包含照片冲印件与幻灯片两类载体。本系列收录的影像内容涵盖有轨电车、运营人员、事故现场，以及20世纪80年代由政府机构运营的巴士。

1990年左右至2000年6月期间，本系列所有藏品均由公共交通公司（Public Transport Corporation，PTC）设立的照片馆藏机构妥善保管。本系列是照片馆藏移交至维多利亚州公共档案办公室（Public Record Office Victoria，PROV）后新增的系列之一。

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此类冲印照片最初主要用于标识承载原始影像的底片，不过也有部分照片由照片馆藏库工作人员专门制作，用于纳入本系列藏品。工作人员根据不同的底片序列生成了三组冲印照片序列（目前底片序列尚未由PROV完成整理）。

多数冲印照片已粘贴至特制卡片上，卡片至少标注有底片编号；大部分卡片还记录了影像类别、主题、拍摄日期、摄影师以及影像标题。

遗憾的是，冲印照片并未按照底片的原有序列进行编排，而是被划分为若干大类，并在大类下按影像主题进行分组。但无论是大类还是主题，均无明确的编排逻辑。因此，工作人员决定按照原始底片序列，将冲印照片分为多个批次进行登记，并保留其原本的发现顺序。各批次详情如下：
- **MMTB/STA与MTA单编号底片序列冲印照片（对应批次P00001）**
该序列最初由墨尔本都市有轨电车委员会（Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board，MMTB）于1951年设立，后由州交通管理局（State Transport Authority，STA）、都市交通管理局（Metropolitan Transit Authority，MTA）与公共交通公司延续管理至1992年。影像编号采用前缀为MMTB的连续序列，编号范围为1至21499。
- **有轨电车"Historical"底片序列冲印照片（对应批次P0002）**
该序列收录了少量被MMTB认定具有历史价值的影像，底片编号范围为H1至H741，目前暂未明确这批影像的实际拍摄时间跨度。
- **MMTB/MTA与PTC事故序列冲印照片（对应批次P0003）**
该序列收录了1980年至1990年间的有轨电车事故影像，均为用于理赔用途拍摄的资料。底片编号采用前缀为A的连续序列，编号范围为1至1676。

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本系列幻灯片以彩色影像为主，拍摄时间始于20世纪50年代。PROV工作人员将幻灯片分为三个序列，详情如下：
- **MMTB/MTA与PTC幻灯片：幻灯片册顺序（对应批次P0004）**
该序列下所有幻灯片均存放于幻灯片册中，每张幻灯片带有两位数字的控制编号（例如3-123），其中第一位数字代表所在幻灯片册编号，第二位数字代表该影像在册内的位置。所有单张影像均已在PROV在线目录的描述列表中完成标识。此类幻灯片册无明确的编排逻辑，既未按时间顺序也未按其他规则排列，本质上与冲印照片一样，按照随机的类别及主题顺序进行分组。
- **少量"备用幻灯片"，拍摄时间跨度未知（对应批次P0005）**
- **由制作机构归类为"杂项幻灯片"的序列（对应批次P0006）**
PROV将该序列解读为：这批影像未纳入幻灯片册编号管控体系。