Hello all, VPRS 840 "Security Identity Photographs 1888 Melbourne Exhibition" 4 volumes Albums can be viewed at Victorian PRO, and copies may be ordered, or take a digital camera, fill in the form, and off you go! For local historians and others, I list below members of the Victorian(?) "country" press from my index. Part Two H Luke Gippsland Mercury Vol 1 page 34 photo# 477-12 Hamilton McKinnon Wagga Wagga Express Vol 1 page 33 photo# 479-4 F C Mason Gippsland Standard Vol 1 page 23 photo# 547-1 Thomas McHugh Avoca Free Press Vol 1 page 23 photo 545-14 N B McKay Mildura Cultivator Vol 1 page 34 photo# 477-7 T S Neale West Bourke Times Vol 1 page 25 photo# 551-2 P P Nind Warragul Guardian Vol 1 page 31 photo# 523-12 R Osborne Belfast Gazette Vol 1 page 30 photo# 525-4 R Paterson Portland Guardian Vol 1 page 30 photo# 525-13 I F Paton Avoca Mail Vol 1 page 34 photo# 479-14 J J Ryan Shepparton News Vol 1 page 32 photo# 521-8 S R Smith Coleraine Albion Vol 1 page 24 photo# 547-9 William Spence Drouin Express Vol 1 page 26 photo# 551-8 E J Stephens Warragul Times & Omeo Telegraph Vol 1 page 26 photo# 551-7 J C Stephens Upper Murray & Mitta Mitta Herald Vol 1 page 24 photo# 549-2 H E Thompson Beechworth Weekly Advertiser Vol 1 page 25 photo# 551-6 Completed. Of course, there are press from suburban, interstate & international firms, but I thought these would be of interest to the groups I am sending to. They are excellent "carte de visite" size photos. Each person wore an identity card on which their photo was pasted... and you thought those laminated ones you wear were a modern invention! If you forgot your card, you had to say either the "Court" (Victoria, Fine Arts, USA, Catering, etc) and an attendant at the turnstile got out the massive albums, checked you looked like the photo, then granted entry. I believe there is another volume in the State Library, which I have yet to look at, so I don't know what "Court" it represents. Regards Ada Ada Ackerly. Melbourne Formerly Ackerly Docusearch