From the loft

Photographed 3 April 1916 at the Female Reformatory, Long Bay, NSW
The Justice & Police Museum contains a small, dark room called the Crime Museum. In it is housed a collection of confiscated weapons, the effluvia of deviance, collected by generations of police to educate new recruits. This reference collection served as a warning about the [...]

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Photographed 29 August 1919 at the Female Reformatory, Long Bay
Holding the glass plate negative up to the light, my attention was immediately caught by the grotesque fox fur dangling around the woman’s neck. My gaze then drifted to her greasy hair and despondent look. She was obviously dressed in her ‘Sunday best’, a rich velvet [...]

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