{"id":1782,"date":"2019-03-08T05:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2019-03-08T05:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T05:50:58","slug":"underworld-mugshots-on-display-at-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/08\/underworld-mugshots-on-display-at-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Underworld mugshots on display at Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haunting mugshots of Sydney\u2019s bosses, plotters, bruisers and petty criminals of the 1920s \u2013 some with felonious links to Newcastle and the Hunter – will be on display at Newcastle Museum from today.
\nUNDERWORLD: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties<\/em>\u00a0investigates the life and times of Sydney\u2019s seedy underworld during the 1920s \u2013 a time most remember for jazz, Art Deco, glitz and glamour.
\n\"Museummugshotsinside.jpg\"Criminal Rose Engebritsen 14 November 1925. Credit: NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive,
\nSydney Living Museums<\/strong>
\nBut the age had a much more sinister undertone when gangs, guns and violence played a major role.
\nCriminal Rose Engebritsen, it\u2019s understood, worked in Newcastle as a singer. Although \u2018Deported from America\u2019 is noted under a photograph of her kept by police, a woman with the same name was advertised as singing during a film screening in Newcastle.
\nSnowy Cutmore, who had connections with horse racing at Cessnock, was a gunman, a sly-grog seller and housebreaker with multiple convictions for assault. His death at the hands of another gangster, Squizzy Taylor, were chronicled in\u00a0The Cessnock Eagle<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0South Maitland Recorder<\/em>\u00a0in 1927.
\nThese local examples of life in the \u2018Roaring Twenties\u2019, as they were known, were part and parcel of the brave new world many people were living in post-World War One.
\n\"Museummugshotsinside2.jpg\"John D \u2018Snowy\u2019 Cutmore, 5 July 1922. Credit:\u00a0<\/b>NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Sydney Living Museums<\/strong>
\n\u201cThese fascinating tales of real-life events occurred during an era of lax law enforcement and a rise in criminal activity,\u201d Newcastle Museum Director Julie Baird said.
\n\u201cEach of the 130 candid and compelling mugshots taken by NSW Police between 1920 and 1930 offers its own poignant look at a period which saw criminals cash in on illegal markets thanks to advances in new technology.\u201d
\n\u201cThe striking detail and expressions present on the faces of the photographed, the clothes they\u2019re wearing and the locations they\u2019re shot are so different to any mugshot taken today. It\u2019s a fascinating exhibition and one the museum is very much looking forward to displaying.\u201d
\n\"museummugshotmediainside2.jpg\"Augustine \u2018Gus\u2019 Gracey and\u00a0Edgar \u2018Eddie\u2019 Dalton circa 1920<\/strong><\/sub><\/sup>. Credit: NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive,
\nSydney Living Museums<\/strong><\/sub><\/sup>
\nExhibition Curator Nerida Campbell said the exhibition explored the dark side of the Roaring Twenties where \u201cyou\u2019ll meet the bosses, plotters, bruisers and petty crims who ruled Sydney\u2019s mean streets.\u201d
\n\u201cThe photography in this exhibition is amazing,\u201d she said.
\n“The mugshots taken by Sydney police are unlike any you\u2019ll see anywhere in the world; They\u2019re candid, and compelling, and the stories behind the people in them are amazing.
\n\u201cStories of people struggling with bad choices, stories of people possibly in the wrong place at the wrong time and the dyed-in-the-wool criminals who wouldn\u2019t change even if they could.\u201d
\nReproduced from glass plate negatives, the images retain a high-quality level of clarity almost a century after they were taken.
\nThe exhibition will be on display from today until 30 June. For more information on the exhibition, visit the Newcastle Museum exhibition page at\u00a0http:\/\/www.newcastlemuseum.com.au\/Exhibitions\/Exhibitions\/UNDERWORLD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haunting mugshots of Sydney\u2019s bosses, plotters, bruisers and petty criminals of the 1920s \u2013 some with felonious links to Newcastle and the Hunter – will be on display at Newcastle Museum from today. UNDERWORLD: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties\u00a0investigates the life and times of Sydney\u2019s seedy underworld during the 1920s \u2013 a time most remember … Continue reading “Underworld mugshots on display at Museum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}