Davies & Co, photographers, Christie, Head of CIB (Criminal Investigation Bureau), c 1883, albumen silver carte-de-visite, gift of Mr John Etkins, 2005, H2005.37/152

John Mitchell Christie (1845–1927) was one of Melbourne's finest detectives, famed for his creative disguises and arrests of a young city's criminal class. He was tasked with shadowing the Duke of Edinburgh in 1869 and the Duke of York in 1901 on their visits to Australia and New Zealand. The Library holds Christie's personal case files relating to his work in Victoria between 1866 and his retirement in 1910.