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  • 40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s

    40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s

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    Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…