Mug Shots Women 1920s-33 - from our story 'Villains In Furs: Incredible Mugshots of Female Prisoners in the Early 20th Century'

Mug Shots of Australian women prisoners 1920s

Title: Eileen May O'Connor, criminal record number 710LB, 3 June 1927. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW Creator: New South Wales. Dept. of Prisons Date: 3 June 1927 Format: Glass plate negative: b&w; 4.75 x 6.5 Inscription: Emulsion side: E. O'CONNOR, 710.L.B 5/17 u/u 11/00 19, 112.265, D1 Subject: mug shots prisoners Description: Convicted of stealing. Eileen O'Connor first appears in police records as a 'missing friend', or missing person. She is eventually arrested for stealing a wallet and is described by police with the odd epithet 'inclined to be weak'. Aged 17. Part of an archive of forensic photography created by the NSW Police between 1912 and 1964.

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