Finished! NAA: SP42/1 is a general correspondence series from the Collector of Customs in Sydney. It includes many files relating to the administration of the White Australia Policy. 3,375 files have been digitised (about 20% of the series), that’s 49,781 digital images.
https://twitter.com/wragge/status/1342989532510076929
We downloaded all those images and used MTCNN to find faces. Generally portrait photos will appear in files relating to questions of identity. We found 3,803 faces (this includes a number of duplicates). 
I did some quick tagging of women and children for @baibi (see the picture in the tweet above!). Interestingly, about 19% of the faces in digitised files from SP42/1 were women or children, compared to just 2% from ST84/1. I think I’ll leave it to @baibi to explain why…
@baibi Eventually we’ll be adding these and more to the wall of faces at The Real Face of White Australia: realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/faces/
@baibi The series also includes some wonderful group portraits and family photos. This is from NAA: SP42/1, C1915/4590
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