The ‘special photographs’
This collection of portraits on around 2500 glass plate negatives (plus some cellulose negatives) documenting police suspects, offenders and detainees was created by New South Wales Police Department...
View ArticlePhil ‘The Jew’ Jeff
Known as Phil ‘The Jew’ Jeff. This picture is one of a series of around 2500 ‘special photographs’ taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. Jeff is referred to...
View ArticleFive-shilling sniffs
Rosie Steele was a drug runner for East Sydney cocaine trafficker Harry Newman. She was fined £30 in 1928 after she and another woman were arrested with a number of ‘five shilling sniffs’ in their...
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Thomas Rhodes Firth
Thomas Rhodes Firth, Special Photograph number 798, 18 April 1922, location unknown
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Trainees
The inscription on this negative, O’Donohue’s Trainees, is ripe with suggestion. But none of the names have been found in police records or newspapers of the time, save for Cecil Rickets (or Reckitts),...
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Frederick Dyer
Frederick Dyer was charged with possession of counterfeit coins in 1924. He was acquitted. No other details known. See this image in the pictures catalogue.
View ArticleThe ‘special photographs’
This collection of portraits on around 2500 glass plate negatives (plus some cellulose negatives) documenting police suspects, offenders and detainees was created by New South Wales Police Department...
View ArticlePhil ‘The Jew’ Jeff
Known as Phil ‘The Jew’ Jeff. This picture is one of a series of around 2500 ‘special photographs’ taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. Jeff is referred to...
View ArticleFive-shilling sniffs
Rosie Steele was a drug runner for East Sydney cocaine trafficker Harry Newman. She was fined £30 in 1928 after she and another woman were arrested with a number of ‘five shilling sniffs’ in their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thomas Rhodes Firth
Thomas Rhodes Firth, Special Photograph number 798, 18 April 1922, location unknown
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trainees
The inscription on this negative, O’Donohue’s Trainees, is ripe with suggestion. But none of the names have been found in police records or newspapers of the time, save for Cecil Rickets (or Reckitts),...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Frederick Dyer
Frederick Dyer was charged with possession of counterfeit coins in 1924. He was acquitted. No other details known. See this image in the pictures catalogue.
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