NRS-18691 | Photographs of persons [New South Wales Police Special Branch]

Full description

This series is comprised of black and white photographs of individuals created for investigative purposes. The photographs measure 830 mm x 120 mm and 100 mm x 104 mm and contained within cardboard envelopes. Each envelope may contain a number of different photographs and multiple copies of each photograph. Some envelopes also contain negatives, colour photographs and slides.

The photographs have originated from a number of sources including:

• Newspapers and other publications
• Police offender photographs “mug shots”
• Surveillance photographs
• Photographs from other agencies such as passport photographs and offender photographs

The following information is recorded on the reverse side of each photograph:

• six digit number
• name of person
• year the photograph was taken
• annotations such as date of birth and place and date of residence

The following information is recorded on the front of each envelope:

• six digit number
• dossier number
• name of person
• alias name
• month and year the photograph was taken.