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...Fully digitised
The Gaol Photographic Description Books contain a photograph of each prisoner and personal and criminal history.
The major sources from our collection relating to gaol staff employed by the NSW Department of Corrective Services and its predecessors.
These photos of prisoners were accompanied by the following details: name, aliases, date when portrait was taken, native place, year of birth, arrived in colony - ship and year, trade or occupation, religion, degree of education, height, weight (on committal, on discharge), colour of...