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Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams :: from City of Shadows (Historic Houses Trust, 2005), a recollection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960.

Alice Adeline Cook, 30th December, 1922

was convicted of bigamy and theft. By the age of 24 she had amassed an impressive number of aliases and at least two husbands. She was described by police as ‘rather good looking’. All images are courtesy of the Historic Houses Trust. Be sure to check out their site for more fascinating historical images.

 – Photograph by The Sydney Justice & Police Museum

  

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The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Herbert Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910′s, 20′s and 30′s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include ‘goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, eceiving and throwing a missile. Photograph used as the cover of 

Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams :: Thomas Bede, November 22, 1928 from City of Shadows (Historic Houses Trust, 2005) / source: twistedsifter

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Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams :: Thomas Bede, November 22, 1928 from City of Shadows

(Historic Houses Trust, 2005), a recollection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960 was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse in the late 1980′s. This book draws on Peter Doyle’s extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images of everyday misadventure in Sydney between 1912 and 1948. / via djinn gallery / text source: bol.com

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