Verkkothey are photographs of sydneysiders from the roaring 1920’s, but they were never meant to appear in family photo albums, or to be lovingly tucked.

We expose that story through a raw look at real police bodycam & dashcam footage.

Verkkoclick through to see some of the best mugshots from sydney in the 1920s, and the stories behind them.

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The subjects of the special photographs seem to.

Verkkoevery mugshot has a story.

Verkkolater in the nineteenth century, as photographs became easy and inexpensive to reproduce as paper prints, the mug shot was used widely in police.

Verkkorevealing sydney’s criminal hierarchy in the aftermath of world war i, underworld:

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