tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65134611264738237492024-03-14T17:18:31.969+11:00Thomas J. Nevin | Tasmanian Photographer19th century Australian police and commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger509125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-55577233783426177442024-03-01T18:05:00.025+11:002024-03-02T16:20:26.793+11:00Confusion for the press, 1879: was she/he/they a female or a male "impersonator"? Celebrating Mardi Gras 2024
Sensational case of Ellen Tremaye aka Edward De Lacy Evans,1879
The press in 1879 headlined their report about a woman who wore men's clothing as a "female impersonator" when clearly the person in question, Ellen Tremaye (1830-1901), was living as a transgender man, or - to use the terminology of the day - she was "impersonating" a male not a female.
Living as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-42064133886725494572024-01-24T15:47:00.020+11:002024-02-02T08:22:48.909+11:00Lost and found at the American War Mirror 1879Thomas J. NEVIN, Hobart Town Hall Keeper 1876-1880
WHITTINGTON's Panoramas of Dickens' life and work
BACHELDER's dioramas of the American Civil WarTHOMPSON's dioramas of the American Civil War and Zulu War
Diorama of Tasmanian Aboriginal Group at campfire 1930s, medallion of 1976
1876-1880: Thomas J. Nevin, Keeper of the Hobart Town Hall
Professional photographer and government contractor ThomasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-32711588027266213532023-12-25T08:56:00.000+11:002024-02-04T12:57:15.694+11:00Christmas from our ArchivesHAND-TINTED PORTRAITS as CHRISTMAS CARDS Red and green sprigs 1874
PHOTOGRAPHIC REDUCTIONS of LARGE DOCUMENTS Cdv of Mercury 1874; fire bell warnings 1878
CHARLES DICKENS and CAPTAIN GOLDSMITH The Gadshill mail box 1859
CHRISTMAS DRINKS at the MAYPOLE Drunk and disorderly at New Town 1885
PRISONERS partying 1881 and SAILORS hugging the holly 1850
CHRISTMAS CONCERT Theatre Royal Hobart ca. 1958
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-66333240366352056332023-11-12T15:10:00.057+11:002024-02-04T11:24:32.872+11:00First Mate James DAY on the "Panama" to California 1850-1851Parents and siblings Elizabeth DAY and James DAY, York, England
Master mariners, Captains DAY, James and GOLDSMITH, Edward 1830s-1870s
Voyages of Captain James DAY to the Californian gold fields and San Francisco great fires
Title: Signals Hobart Town / by Edward Murphy Private 99. Regt
Creator: Murphy, Edward, 1823-1871
Publisher: [1855]
Description: 1 painting : watercolour, pen and ink Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-9952128536257909522023-10-24T15:15:00.014+11:002023-10-30T06:34:28.961+11:00Thomas J. Nevin at the Citizen's Arch, 8 January 1868Royal Visit to Hobart by HRH Prince ALFRED, Duke of Edinburgh 1868
Thos J. NEVIN's cdv's of the Citizen's Arch 1868
Photograph ALBUMS of scenes and children gifted to the Prince 1868
Captain GOLDSMITH's vehicular ferry "Kangaroo" on fire 1868
F. J. PATERSON (attr) reprints as stereo of Thos J. Nevin's cdv the Citizen's Arch 1890
1868: a busy year for Thomas J. Nevin
Above: cropped detail of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-20517413158098073922023-10-21T07:12:00.011+11:002023-10-22T08:01:32.588+11:00Prisoner George CHARLTON, photo by T. J. Nevin, September 1874Thomas J. NEVIN's photography: a prisoner mugshot and a New Town stereograph
George CHARLTON, prison records, aliases and monikers
SIMS' Excelsior coal mine, Kangaroo Valley, Hobart, Tasmania
The Mugshot
Prisoner George Charlton, photographed by T. J. Nevin, Hobart Gaol, September 1874.
Prisoner CHARLTON, George
TMAG Ref: Q15571
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Date and Location: Hobart Gaol, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-52085935062521317312023-10-20T11:52:00.003+11:002023-10-26T09:22:18.475+11:00Prisoner Charles J. GARFORTH said he would make Superintendent Adolarious H. BOYD pay dearly, 1875C. J. GARFORTH, constable, musician, husband and prisoner
A. H. BOYD, prison officer Port Arthur penal establishment
Mary Ann LARKIN, bounty emigrant: marriage and children
The photograph of Charles Garforth by T. J. Nevin 1875
Recto image and numbers:Prisoner Charles Garforth, the name also spelt as Garfitt and Garfoot per M S Elphinstone 2, 1848. Photographed by government contractor ThomasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-85643600307165178772023-09-01T14:15:00.007+10:002023-09-27T14:10:09.942+10:00Beware AI generated images of your criminal ancestors!Eugenicist Hamish Maxwell-Stewart's AI fake photographs of 19th century Tasmanian convicts
Breaches of Moral Rights and Copyright of heritage property using AI generated data
Thomas J. Nevin's real photographs/mugshots of Tasmanian prisoners taken in the 1870s-1880s.
Source of talk at the National Family History Month - Opening Ceremony
- https://familyhistorymonth.org.au/index.php/videos/Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-64182212794508060182023-07-23T18:15:00.015+10:002023-09-27T14:01:08.598+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith's vote of support for James Alexander Thomson 1853J. A. THOMSON, transported convict, arrived Hobart 1825
J. A. THOMSON, building contractor 1835-1857
J. A. THOMSON, Hobart City Alderman and Captain GOLDSMITH 1853
Captain Edward GOLDSMITH's twin ferry Kangaroo, costs and critics 1856
Detail, left image of stereograph of the pile bridge over River Derwent at New Norfolk, with male figure hiding his face seated in immediate foreground on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-91687288066705096212023-05-31T16:14:00.021+10:002023-10-02T17:47:36.748+11:00"HOPE": John Nevin's poem on slavery 1863 and the U.S. Proclamation of EmancipationFamily of John NEVIN at Grey Abbey, Ireland 1820s-1850s
Original poetry by John NEVIN written in Tasmania 1860s-1880s
The U.S. Emancipation Proclamation 1863-1866
John Nevin, parish clerk
"Yes, my brother, many did say you made a foolish step but they do not say so now."
Letter from Nevin family, Grey Abbey, Ireland, to John Nevin, Hobart, Tasmania, May 1855.
John Nevin (1808-1887) was born at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-62477373296129492172023-05-04T09:21:00.007+10:002023-05-17T11:38:22.130+10:00Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith and the saltmarsh known as Lady's Tippett, 1870Executors of Captain Edward Goldsmith's estate in probate (1869-1901)
The Captain's wife: Elizabeth (Day) Goldsmith in Chancery 1870s
Saltmarshes along the Thames in Kent, UK
The Goldsmith Golden Triangle
Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-8438533006961406402023-05-03T13:15:00.002+10:002023-05-04T04:58:14.985+10:00The Poulter album: "Weekly Courier" reprints 1900s of 1870s photographs by T. J. NevinReprints 1900s of 1870s Tasmanian photographs
R. C. Poulter's tourist's album 1900s
The Weekly Courier Tasmania's Premier Pictorial (1900-1907)
Page on left from an Album of photographs of Tasmania compiled by R. C. Poulter ca. 1901-1907
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
Link: https://stors.tas.gov.au/ILS/SD_ILS-1173205
On page at left, these five Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-16188785917489424312023-01-17T15:38:00.017+11:002023-05-04T12:21:04.433+10:00Preview of new research 2023John NEVIN snr's letter from Ireland (1854)
Captain James DAY first mate of the Pryde and Panama at the San Francisco fires (1851)
Elizabeth GOLDSMITH sale of Captain Edward Goldsmith's estate (1870)
Thomas and Elizabeth NEVIN's grandchildren's private collections (20th century)
New Research 2023
This year we cross the globe to visit the Great Fires of San Francisco, California, USA with Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-45582402229976458112023-01-11T07:17:00.002+11:002023-06-14T13:30:49.315+10:00PrisonerJohn FITZPATRICK and/or John FITZGERALD 1867-1885Convict transportation records and prisoner aliases 1840s
Key penal discipline documents tabled in the Tasmanian Parliament 1870s
The Mugshot
Two copies of this photograph are extant. Nowhere does the error of the ship's name written on the verso of this mugshot- viz. Ld Lyndoch 2 - appear on the transportation records for prisoner John Fitzpatrick. From T. J. Nevin's original uncut photograph Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-23841780600101390222022-12-07T14:08:00.016+11:002023-05-10T16:12:16.053+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith: imports to Tasmania, exports to everywhere, 1840s-1860sCAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH (1804-1869) merchant mariner
IMPORTS of exotic flora and bloodlines 1850s
EXPORTS of indigenous plants, birds and animals 1860s
FRANK HAES stereogram of the thylacine London Zoo 1865
Glover, John. Hobart Town, Taken from the Garden Where I Lived, 1832 / by John Glover (1832).
Glover, John, 1767-1849
Painting oil on canvas - 76 x 152 cm, State Library of NSW
Link: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-31495828009208805502022-12-05T19:43:00.021+11:002022-12-16T11:05:09.369+11:00In a party mood: prisoner Michael LYNCH (as Horrigan, Harrigan or Sullivan), Christmas Eve, December 24th 1881Indecent assault charges under the Act of 1863
Court martial with transportation and DD branding
Sixty-five (65) year old cook, Michael Horrigan (or Lynch, Harrigan and Sullivan), transported as Michael Lynch per Waverley (1) in 1841, was feeling festive on Christmas Eve, 24th December 1881. He celebrated by breaking into the residence of Alexander Denholm junior at Forcett, south-east of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-70036511327322850572022-11-21T12:15:00.001+11:002023-06-14T13:37:12.578+10:00Prisoner Cornelius HESTER, photograph by T. J. Nevin 1874PRISONERS Cornelius Hester, Alfred Harrington and James Connolly 1870
Missing MUGSHOTS Tasmanian prisoners 1870s
B. Travers SOLLY and A. H. BOYD: the memo January 1874
As a result of their respective trials and imprisonment held in October 1870, photographs taken by T. J. Nevin for police and prison administration of two prisoners, Cornelius Hester and James Connolly, have survived and are heldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-77673496478826998572022-10-31T10:43:00.001+11:002022-12-07T10:00:15.456+11:00T. J. NEVIN's cdv's of Wm PRICE and Wm YEOMANS; A. H. BOYD's testimony 1875Mugshots of Tasmanian "convicts" taken by Thomas J. NEVIN 1870s
National collections and exhibitions of Tasmanian mugshots in the 20th & 21st centuries.
A. H. BOYD's dismal career in public office; his misattribution by the NLA.
Thomas J. Nevin's original photographs of Tasmanian prisoners (or "Port Arthur convicts" when used in tourism discourse) which he provided on government contract forUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-39281447389907535452022-07-30T15:22:00.015+10:002022-08-09T08:18:41.671+10:00T. Nevin cdv at the "Who Are You" exhibition, NGV and NPG 2022Photographs by T. J. NEVIN 1860s-70s
WHO ARE YOU Exhibition NGV & NPG 2022
Wesley ENOCH contributor of cdv by T. NEVIN
Photographic works extant in public collections taken by Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) in Tasmania during the 1860s and 1870s are regularly displayed at exhibitions held by Australian national galleries and museums. In many cases, a publication in book form accompaniesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-2603141756966665302022-07-11T09:22:00.087+10:002023-07-23T08:49:31.590+10:00Indigenous elder Truganini and poet Ann Kearney, 1875For NAIDOC WEEK July 2022
Genocide and the European aesthetic
It was only two decades ago that the Archives Office of Tasmania displayed online scratchy black and white photographs of Tasmanian Aborigines with the catalogue tag "Flora and Fauna" in the same category as the extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), known as the "Tasmanian Tiger".
The confections of the 19th century colonistsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-35138775994315005272022-04-13T16:14:00.062+10:002022-04-30T13:37:10.889+10:00Thomas J. Nevin at William Snelling's inquest 1875Transported convict William SNELLING (ca. 1814-1875), a lifer, coach maker and businessman
Photographer Thomas J. NEVIN, inquest juror and government contractor
Photographer James CHANDLER, beneficiary of the Nevin family collections
Source: Archives Office of Tasmania
Photograph - Hobart- Butcher shop - W. Snelling c 1870s
Item Number:NS869/1/452
Start Date: 01 Jan 1870
Creating Agency: JamesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-76871116702977164702021-11-28T17:25:00.046+11:002023-06-14T13:43:17.303+10:00Lost originals: the Nevin, Genge and Chandler family photographsARCHIVAL DEPOSITS of COPIES only of original 19th century photographs, Tasmania
THE LOST COLLECTIONS of NEVIN, GENGE, CHANDLER and HOOPER family photographs
INTERGENERATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Thomas J. NEVIN 1870s, and JAMES CHANDLER 1900s
The Chandler and Hooper Collection
Photographer James Chandler (1877-1945) acquired by descent an unknown number of original photographic works taken by his Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-14319418035873491572021-11-13T08:35:00.014+11:002022-06-29T11:34:57.443+10:00Shorthand, Hansard, Port Arthur, corruption and laughter in Parliament 18th July 1873.HANSARD, SHORTHAND and TRANSCRIPTION
Charles DICKENS the young Parliamentary reporter
PORT ARTHUR DISESTABLISHMENT & corruption, Tasmania July 1873
LAUGHTER and WIT in Parliamentary Debate, Tasmania
Dickens on shorthand: "marks like flies' legs"
In Chapter 38 of his novel David Copperfield (1850) Charles Dickens relates the eponymous character's struggles to master the art of stenography:
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-49484298924357543422021-11-04T09:28:00.052+11:002023-05-19T10:04:25.129+10:00Tragedy at Dickens' honeymoon cottage, Goldsmith's Plantation, Chalk, Kent (UK)Captain Edward GOLDSMITH, merchant mariner's will in Chancery
Charles DICKENS, immortal novelist on honeymoon at Goldsmith's plantation
Tragedy of Walter MULLENDER at CRADDOCK'S cottage, Chalk, Kent
View from the tower of St Mary the Virgin Church, Chalk Kent UK, known as Chalk Church, down Church Lane to Lower Higham Road, the Salt Marshes and the Thames beyond.
Photo courtesy of and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-82869079521698280082021-10-21T15:32:00.012+11:002023-10-30T06:28:32.542+11:00NEVIN & SMITH, 1868: the client with white fingernailsPhotographers NEVIN & SMITH, Hobart 1868
INJURY and DISEASE 19th Tasmanian industries
CAMERAS, lenses, and the circle of confusion
Robert Smith was known to Mrs Esther Mather. She was not happy about the colouring he had applied to a portrait of her brother when he visited the studio she called "Smith's" in Hobart. She said so in a letter to her step-son, dated 1865. Nothing was known about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com