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City of Shadows

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Police Forensic Archive
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Location: Justice & Police Museum Cnr Albert and Phillip Streets Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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Entry Fee: Free
Exhibition Event:
Official Opening 01/01/2014 10:00 am

Curator Peter Doyle describes the exhibition as ‘an intimate, raw and hauntingly beautiful record of the mysterious people and dark places of a Sydney lost’.

Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, the original City of Shadows introduced the world to the 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. New research has solved many of the mysteries surrounding the people and places in these compelling photographs, and the stories that lurk behind the images – sometimes thrilling, sometimes mundane – can now be revealed.

This event has concluded
Dates:
Location: Justice & Police Museum Cnr Albert and Phillip Streets Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: Free
Exhibition Event:
Official Opening 01/01/2014 10:00 am

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