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    THE ‘SPECIALS’ MUGSHOTS

    Jun 17, 2019 3 minutes
    By Nerida Campbell, Curator, Sydney Living Museums

    estled between Sydney Harbour and the city skyscrapers is a cluster of sandstone buildings known today as the Justice & Police Museum. The museum, managed by Sydney Living Museums, cares for an eclectic collection of material relating to Sydney’s criminal and policing history. Th is includes the remarkable New South Wales Police Forensic Photography Archive, made up of approximately 130,000 negatives created between 1910 and 1964. An extraordinary section of this archive contains the mugshots known as the ‘Specials’, providing a snapshot of the Roaring

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