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.comBlogger175125tag: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-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-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-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-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-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-65941694056006249072021-09-21T16:25:00.028+10:002023-11-30T05:48:55.656+11:00A missing photograph and missing letter: John SMITH (x 2) per "Mangles" and Lord CalthorpePrisoners called John SMITH per Mangles 1835
Lord CALTHORPE's missing letter
T. J. NEVIN's missing mugshot(s) of a John Smith
Convict ship Mangles, master John Coghill
Date [ca. 1858-ca. 1911]
Identifier(s) H92.410/20
State Library of Victoria
Link: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/132516
This is a very interesting ship with a colourful history. A logbook of the Mangles on this voyage, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-85189935327959394812021-05-12T18:08:00.001+10:002021-09-03T10:12:17.830+10:00Prisoner Thomas ARCHER alias Thomas SMITH or James SMITH 1875PRISONERS named "James SMITH" and ALIASES
PRISONER IDENTIFICATION PHOTOGRAPHS by T. J. NEVINREDUNDANCIES and ERRORS in PUBLIC ARCHIVES
Thomas ARCHER alias Thomas SMITH or James SMITH
Two copies of this one image of a prisoner identified on numerous transportation, gaol and police records as Thomas Archer, alias Thomas Smith or James Smith, are extant in public collections. All three names are Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-5819817768198569222021-02-20T12:59:00.010+11:002021-03-08T12:16:43.300+11:00The case against Henry Stock (var. Stocks) 1884 for the murder of his wife and her childMURDERS of WOMEN and CHILDREN 19th century Tasmania
EXECUTIONS: DEATH by HANGING Hobart Gaol 1880s
HEAD CASTS and PHRENOLOGY 1880s
Detail of photograph below:
Henry Stock: carte-de-visite photograph by T. J. Nevin in buff mount pasted opposite death warrant dated 13 September 1884
Death Warrants V.D.L. Tasmania Supreme Court. Mitchell Library C203. SLNSW
Photos copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-38924331880142642802021-02-09T18:39:00.010+11:002021-03-12T13:38:31.282+11:00Prisoner Joseph WALMSLEY: a "queer-looking man" 1842-1891JUVENILE TRANSPORTEE to CAREER CRIMINAL
HUMOUR and CRIME
Joseph Walmsley, 14 years old, one of 267 convicts transported on the Isabella (2), arrived at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on 19th May 1842. He was tried at Lancaster, Salford Quarter Sessions (UK), transported for seven (7) years for stealing shoes, coppers and money. He had in his possession when arrested a William the Fourth Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-50534657131270290792021-01-11T15:47:00.002+11:002021-10-28T06:37:29.998+11:00Prisoner James MARTIN: criminal career 1860s-1890sTHE RADCLIFFE MUSEUM Port Arthur
CONVICT TATTOOS
EXHIBITIONS and photographer misattribution
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery copy
Number on recto: this mugshot of prisoner James Martin, mounted as a carte-de-visite, was numbered "183" on the recto when it was removed from the John Watt Beattie Collection at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston in 1983 for an exhibition at the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-5253400603900796042020-10-22T17:55:00.027+11:002023-11-30T08:31:45.369+11:00The sweetest young brother: thirteen year old Jack Nevin 1865NEVIN, William John (1852-1891) aka Jack, younger brother of Thomas
NEVIN, Thomas James (1842-1923) family photographs of younger brother Jack
NEVIN, William John (1878-1927) nephew of Jack, son of Thomas and Elizabeth NEVIN.
Of all four siblings - from the eldest Thomas James to his sisters Rebecca Jane and Mary Ann - Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-86771044666804070592020-09-06T11:45:00.007+10:002020-09-19T17:22:27.056+10:00Prisoner James GLEN 1874 and 2003PRISONER James GLEN ex Scotland 1862
SHIPS the Clyde and the George & Susan
TMAG ANNUAL REPORT 2003 misattribution to A. H. Boyd
The Mugshot
Unlike the three hundred or more extant mugshots of Tasmanian prisoners photographed in the 1870s by government contractor Thomas J. Nevin and printed as a carte-de-visite in an oval mount, this one of James Glen stands alone as one of the very few thatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-41750643755298312272020-06-17T08:58:00.001+10:002021-08-16T13:45:57.362+10:00"Hair inclined to be curley": prisoner Henry SMITH aka Clabby aka CooperWHEN 'NATIVE' MEANS PRISONERS BORN in TASMANIA
ALIASES of HENRY SMITH or CLABBY or COOPER
PRISONER MUGSHOTS 1870s and 1890s
Prisoner Henry CLABBY
Prisoner Henry CLABBY alias Cooper, 22 yrs old, and locally born ("native") in Tasmania was photographed by Thomas J. Nevin at the Hobart Gaol for the Municipal Police Office Hobart, between 4th-24th January 1874. This photograph of Henry Clabby was Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-34128276911684546202020-05-31T10:44:00.001+10:002021-05-05T11:41:55.798+10:00Prisoner John WILLIAMS and his scar 1874The mugshot: positive and negative views
The photograph taken of John Williams on discharge at the Hobart Gaol for Municipal Police Office records by government contractor Thomas J. Nevin in late January 1874 is held in the Beattie Collection at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. Unlike dozens of these prisoner mugshots which were removed from the QVMAG and exhibitedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-30356080447788443472020-05-12T19:21:00.001+10:002020-09-19T17:22:28.373+10:00T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworksPOLICE MUGSHOTS Tasmania 1870s by T. J. Nevin
ARTWORK 21st century based on 1870s mugshots
LISA SHAROUN 2015
KENNETH POMLETT 2013
Ancestors by Lisa Sharoun 2015
Visual Artwork: Ancestors. [Artefact] (2015)
Source: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129233/
Creator: Scharoun, Lisa
Source: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Scharoun,_Lisa.html
Personal communication 26 January 2020:
Copies courtesy ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-67270307454123382372019-10-26T10:14:00.002+11:002020-09-19T17:22:29.269+10:00Prisoner Richard PHILLIPS 1874PRISONER'S BLINDNESS Richard Phillips
PRESSMEN and The Cornwall Chronicle Launceston
FAKE PHOTOGRAPHER ACCREDITATION Port Arthur Tasmania
When Thomas J. Nevin photographed this prisoner Richard Phillips in July 1874 at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall, on the occasion of the prisoner's discharge from a two year sentence for housebreaking and larceny, he was confronted with a problemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-20768667478048348902019-10-21T13:24:00.001+11:002020-09-19T17:22:29.420+10:00Prisoner George GROWSETT 1860 and 1873DUPLICATES, COPIES and DISPERSAL of 1870s MUGSHOTS
PRISONER George Growsett's THREAT of SUICIDE
George Growsett threatened suicide at trial in 1860 for armed robbery, protesting that he would rather be hanged than endure a lengthy sentence. A sentence of death was duly recorded, which he boastfully informed the court he wanted, but his sentence was commuted a few days later to 15 years in penal Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-64429801294029774572019-07-29T14:45:00.003+10:002021-06-15T10:21:04.709+10:00Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875Barrister ROBERT BYRON MILLER
Prisoner JAMES W. BLANCHFIELD
Private Collection of JEAN PORTHOUSE GRAVES
Photographer THOMAS J. NEVIN
Exhibition at HOBART July 2019 PHOTOGRAPHS of Australian and British Convicts
Prisoner James Blanchfied
Photographed on discharge from the Hobart Gaol by Thomas J. Nevin, April 1875.
"The prisoner, a most unfavorable specimen of the genus homo, seemed to take Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-84641212528164241682019-06-26T09:32:00.003+10:002020-09-19T17:22:30.031+10:00Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870 - 1876GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS stenographers and photographers
RAPE CONVICTIONS of GIRLS under 12 YRS
MUGSHOTS as HERITAGE ART OBJECTS
In 1873, stenographic services were not paid for by the colonial governments of Tasmania or NSW. Transcriptions of Parliamentary debates, of Supreme Court trials, of Governors' levees and dinners held by the colonial elite were provided by freelance journalists who Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-14231668507278218662019-06-21T17:22:00.001+10:002020-09-19T17:22:30.181+10:00Prisoner William SAYER or SAWYER 1875William Sawyer, also known as Sayer(s), arrived in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on the Chapman in 1824, transported for seven years for theft of money. When Thomas J. Nevin photographed him for police records in 1875 at the termination of a sentence passed in 1868 at the Supreme Court Hobart of ten years for sheep stealing, he was 76 yrs old.
Prisoner SAYER or SAWYER, William
TMAG Ref: Q15615
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com