![]() ![]() The result of all his painstaking work was the 2005 exhibition, City of Shadows, which broke attendance records at the Museum. I just had to keep at it and be systematic and look at every single negative that I got down off the shelf, every box, every envelope.” I’ll get through this many envelopes before I go and get a sandwich. ![]() “I’d say, I’ll get through this many boxes before I break for a cup of tea. ![]() Peter had to continually negotiate with himself to get the work done. It’s not the sort of archive where you can go, ‘well, I’m interested in this event or this crime that happened in Sydney in 1942’, and expect to find anything it’s completely haphazard and random.” “I had no idea how big and diverse the collection is,” Peter says. It is thought she may have been the daughter of con woman Ada McGuinness who dealt in drugs and forged bank notes. Hazel McGuinness, 26 July, 1929, Central cells. ![]()
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