City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948

Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, City of Shadows introduced the world to the Justice & Police Museum's extraordinary and compelling collection of police forensic photography dating from 1912 to 1948. You will meet thieves, breakers, receivers, magsmen, spielers, urgers, gingerers, false pretenders, hotel barbers, shoplifters, dope users, prostitutes, makers of false oaths and the occasional murderer.

Caleb Williams is Curator at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney. Peter Doyle is a novelist, scholar and occasional curator at the same institution.

The extensive collection of police forensic negatives casts a fascinating light on the shadowy underworld of Sydney between the wars.

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