Anonymous Coward User ID: 52549593 Belgium 01/06/2014 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] In 1990 the Historic Houses Trust rescued a remarkable collection of NSW Police forensic photographs from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe. Created between 1912 and 1964, the archive contains approximately 130,000 glass plate negatives depicting crime scenes, police activities, forensic evidence and mug shots and may be the biggest police photography collection in the southern hemisphere. The Historic Houses Trust has the job of conserving, repackaging, digitising, researching and cataloguing the archives contents, for which original record systems have been lost. Major exhibitions featuring the archive have travelled widely, including Crime Scene and Femme Fatale and two books have been produced City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle. Ongoing discoveries from the archive are regularly displayed within a dedicated in the Archive Gallery at the Justice & Police Museum. The current exhibition is Collision: Misadventure by Motorcar which depicts car crashes and traffic accidents between 1920 and 1960 as well as the changing streets of Sydney, developments in automobiles and the increasing involvement of police in traffic management [ link to twistedsifter.com] |
Ricky Retardo Sofa King We Todd Did
User ID: 47322137 United States 01/06/2014 08:17 PM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] that was fun, thanks! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24869057 United States 01/06/2014 08:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] It also led to women's mugshots which were brutal! |
davvi
User ID: 3677166 United States 01/06/2014 08:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] I loved the guy who wouldn't open his eyes...I wonder why? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 33024610 United States 01/06/2014 08:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] Man, those are awesome! Apparently getting arrested in the 1920s was like going to Glamour Shots!? |
chula homa
User ID: 35406920 Canada 01/06/2014 08:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] everyone was so short. cool pics! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52556498 United States 01/06/2014 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] All the men look so small. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 51901150 United States 01/06/2014 09:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] Ok lets play a game of time travelling look alikes, i'll start. W.T. Obrien in 26 is Steve Young |
justice4all
User ID: 52531256 United States 01/06/2014 09:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] Cahill looks like anthony hopkins |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 49719426 United States 01/06/2014 10:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] The crooks dressed better back then than CEOs do today.
Awesome gallery! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52573063 United Kingdom 01/06/2014 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] They had mostly the same identical three piece suit - and I think all had the exact same boots on. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52600856 Belgium 01/07/2014 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s [30 Photos] |