Vintage mug shots from the 20's - Police Archives
 

http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/vin...s-black-white/

Aussie Criminals had charisma!

There is also a link for women's photos!

Quite good photos!

Wow, pretty interesting.

Of course all of them are Aussie's. Not surprising though since the place was a penal colony after all.

He is talking about the charisma that most display that type of mugshot was typical for the time period though the wearing street clothes bit.

I think most of these are the shots that they took upon entry into the penal system so the convicts are still wearing the clothes they wore in court or upon reporting if they where allowed bail and then where convicted.

I think most people that got sent to Australia most likely kind of wanted to go anyway in order to escape the squalor of urban England at the time.At any rate the number of immigrants to Australia always far out numbered the ratio of convicts 165,000 cons in total over 80 years vs. in just one year 1852 370,000 immigrants.

North America was also a penal colony used by the British all though not exclusively like Australia initially was so we have more in common with our Aussie cousins than most Americans realize.In fact the wining of the Revolutionary War put an end to the British practice of using North America for penal transportation.Can't send a dissident to Canada lest he travel to America where he might become even more hostile towards British rule.

In Australia you can keep him far away yet still under foot.

Penal transportation to Australia ended in 1868. Long before these photos were taken.

Well it seems my attempt at some humor has fallen flat on its face.

It happens. I wish I had a dollar...well, you know the rest. :sunny:

Strange how all the photos look like shots from a Sears catalogue clothing section.:haha:

I wonder if these are the same people who wrote 'Suck my :doh::nope::-?:down: cops' in that holding cell I visited once?

On a tour, I wasn't thrown in there :o

Yeah, yeah...that's what they all say. ;)

Pretty cool photos....any relations there? :O:

None that I am aware of. I've visited themuseum mentioned in the article and I know most of the locations mentioned in it. I used to work not far from 74 Riley St in my younger days but long a after the bloke in the photo was dead.

And they are all innocent! :)

I liked how a few pose and looked at the camera, has if being in a photographer shop taking a portrait picture for home, etc!

" ...as a ‘suspected person and bogus land salesman’. Keogh was also profiled in exposes in the newspaper Truth in 1928, as a ‘go-getter’, ie a con man who sells suburban building blocks at grossly inflated prices, by falsely leading the buyers to believe the lots may be promptly resold for a huge profit. ..."

Sounds like a bank director, maybe from Leman bros. ? :hmm2:

What is interesting here is the fact that these folks were up to the same law breaking as we see today. Murder, theft, robbery, etc.