Mug Shots Women 1920s-1 - from our story 'Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century'

Mug Shots of Australian women prisoners 1920s

Title: Mug shot of May Blake, 1 September 1930, Central Police Station, Sydney. Creator: New South Wales. Police Dept. Date: September 1930 Format: Glass plate negative: Inscription: Emulsion side: Subject: Central Police Station (Sydney, N.S.W.) mug shots police detainees and suspects beads (necklaces) fur stoles criminals women's clothing & accessories Description: Special Photograph no. D163. The NSW Police Gazette 29 October 1930, p. 827 lists Blake as 'charged with having cocaine unlawfully in her possession.' She was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and fined 250 pounds.

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