Australia's first woman trainee fingerprints expert, Constable Barbara Saunders at work matching fingerprints in the Criminal Investigation Branch at Melbourne's police headquarters,1972 [picture] / Don Edwards

Bib ID:
3819953
Format:
Picture
Author:
Edwards, Don
Online Version:
National Library of Australia digitised item
Description:
  • 1972
  • 1 photograph : b&w ; image 19.8 x 14.7 cm., on sheet 20.5 x 15.4 cm.
Notes:
  • Title devised by cataloguer based on information on verso.
  • Condition: Good.
  • "Australian Information Service photograph by Don Edwards"--Information on verso.
  • "Constable Barbara Saunders has struck a blow for women's liberation in Melbourne, Australia, by becoming the nation's first woman trainee as a fingerprint expert. She works with 33 men in the previously all-male preserve in the city's police headquarters. Barbara will undergo five years of intensive training before she is rated as an expert and her evidence is accpeted by the courts.
  • Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137264628
Subject:
Occupation:
Police officers
Other authors/contributors:
Australian Information Service
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