Mugshots
Gaol inmates & prisoners photos index 1870-1930
Search over 52,000 mugshots from NSW prisons. Alongside the photos are details such as name, aliases, native place, year of birth, details of arrival in the colony, occupation, physical description, marks or special features, where and when tried, offence, and sentence
Margaret Greenwood: a life of crime
This 1875 record contains a rare and revealing photograph of a former Imperial convict, a prisoner again in her old age
Captured: Portraits of Crime, Arthur Astill
Arthur Astill, a 16 year old labourer from Orange in central west NSW, was photographed at Dubbo Gaol on 24 January 1893 while awaiting trial for murder
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Sensational car chase
John Talbot Wright was arrested on 11 September 1920 after a sensational car chase through city streets
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Returned from active service
In July 1921 James Arthur Banfield was arrested by Sydney police, photographed and charged on three counts of larceny
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Fallen hero of Flanders
In 1922, petty criminal Arthur Ernest Noonan was arrested by Sydney police to face charges of conspiracy to defraud
Underworld
The photographer’s bag
Little personal relics of the man behind the camera make many cameos in the Specials
The Hawk strikes again!
During the 1920s, inner Sydney was overrun with gangsters looking to make a name for themselves – sometimes literally
Captured: Portraits of Crime 1870-1930, Sarah Clifford
Sarah Clifford, born in Jamaica c.1833, was a former convict and known pickpocket in both Tasmania and NSW. She was photographed numerous times at Darlinghurst and Biloela gaols between 1872 and 1910