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.comBlogger102125tag: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-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-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-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-33551120059914628542021-04-06T11:25:00.063+10:002021-06-20T07:10:34.934+10:00George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin's studio ca. 1872Captain Joseph JAMES and family 1815-1870s
Photographer George CHERRY cdvs
Photographer Thomas J. NEVIN cdvs
Subject: unidentified couple, possibly Matilda and George Cherry with dog
Photographer: Thomas J. Nevin
Location and date: 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart, ca. 1872
Details: cdv on plain buff mount, hand colouring on carpet, woman's dress, man's fob and tie
Provenance: DSFB, Melbourne 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-36869217367831702222020-12-21T13:21:00.233+11:002023-12-31T10:40:07.085+11:00Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870sT. J. NEVIN a fine hand-coloured cdv of a young boy ca. 1876
DEL SARTE, Camille Auguste (1818-1877): family in France and Australia
ENTERTAINMENTS Del Sarte Concert Rooms, the Oddfellows Hall and Theatre Royal 1860s-1870s
This exquisite portrait of an unidentified young child - who is likely to be male rather than female and possibly one of three sons out of five children in total to survive Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-26753539399984108462020-10-25T17:36:00.075+11:002023-05-18T16:49:12.478+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith's "unwieldy steamer", the twin ferry "Kangaroo"A short legal history of the vehicular paddle steam ferry "Kangaroo"
Described as "Denison's Folly" by the colonial press in 1855; a great lumbering vessel by Mr. A. Riddoch the City Coroner in July 1896; an unwieldy steamer by Justice Dodds in October 1896, and a hazard to shipping by shipwreck enthusiasts, the Kangaroo was built by Elizabeth Rachel Nevin's uncle Captain Edward Goldsmith at hisUnknownnoreply@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-2598882460653661192020-10-10T15:45:00.016+11:002023-11-30T08:39:19.813+11:00John Nevin at inquest for James Thornton 1889 WEBSTER'S ROYAL MAIL COACHES to the HUON
JAMES THORNTON's stabbing of son-in-law THOMAS WEBSTER
JOHN NEVIN witness at inquest of JAMES THORNTON
Constable John (William John aka Jack) Nevin, ca.1880 photographed by his brother Thomas J. Nevin.
Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR. Watermarked.
Photographer Thomas J. Nevin's younger brother Constable John (William John aka Jack) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-7588591898294064002020-08-25T09:45:00.011+10:002021-10-15T10:47:23.072+11:00Gifts for Prince Alfred's visit to Hobart, Tasmania, 1868PRINCE ALFRED in Tasmania; Children's album 1868
NEVIN & SMITH, photographers 1868, Children's portraits
MEREDITH, Mrs Louisa Anne Meredith, lyricist, Children's Song 1868
The firm of Nevin & Smith 1865-1868
Within months of acquiring Alfred Bock's stock-in-trade, equipment, furnishings, lease on the studio and the glasshouse at 140 Elizabeth Street, Hobart, Tasmania at auction in 1865 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-78150097729541365802020-08-24T15:11:00.012+10:002023-11-11T06:54:12.284+11:00Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900sHORSE-DRAWN CABS Hobart, Tasmania 1900s-1940s
HOPE, Alfred and NEVIN, Albert, neighbours at Newdegate St. North Hobart, Tasmania
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE for performing an ABORTION Nurse Woolley 1940
Subject: Seven well-dressed men sitting in William or Alfred Hope's landau, man standing with a bicycle at rear.
Albert Nevin (1888-1955) son of Thomas and Elizabeth, on horseback behind.
Location and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-63773552344243852352020-08-10T15:01:00.002+10:002020-10-18T12:12:33.908+11:00Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860sPHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OPENERS 1860s Hobart, Tasmania
Photographers Peter Laurie REID (1833-1911?)and Thomas J. NEVIN (1842-1923)
Elizabeth Rachel NEVIN nee Day (1847-1914)
Album opener, carte-de-visite with generic poem ca. 1865-8
Inscribed "Grandma Nevin" on mount, verso blank.
From the album of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day
Copyright © KLW NFC Imprint Private Collection 2020
Left:  Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-5974736766496210412020-07-31T14:44:00.015+10:002024-03-01T13:29:56.005+11:00Sarah Crouch at Thomas J. Nevin's studio ca. 1872Photographers Alfred BOCK, Thomas J. NEVIN, and H. H. BAILY
Portraits of Thomas and Sarah CROUCH 1860s-1870s
SHOOBRIDGE estate and grave sites,West Hobart, Tasmania
Sennotypes of Thomas and Sarah Crouch by Alfred Bock
Alfred K. Bock (1835 -1920) inherited his father Thomas Bock's daguerreotype establishment at 22 Campbell Street Hobart Town in April 1855 and announced his own photographic Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-2265323365702824372020-05-11T13:24:00.002+10:002020-10-04T07:36:35.164+11:00Thomas Nevin's stereographs from the Pedder collectionLADY FRANKLIN MUSEUM, Ancanthe
THE PEDDER COLLECTION (TMAG) Stereographs by Thomas J. Nevin
NEVIN FAMILY at Kangaroo Valley (Lenah Valley, Tas)
Lady Franklin Museum stereograph (TMAG)
This fine stereograph by Thomas J.Nevin which is held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery was noted verso by someone in pencil as "best picture". It may have been chosen by Dan Sprod for publication in 1977 (Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-13268377567166593162020-04-10T15:46:00.003+10:002023-11-30T06:54:48.609+11:00Death of Constable John Nevin in the typhoid epidemic of 1891CONSTABLE W. J. NEVIN wardsman
HOSPITAL SCANDAL the wrong body
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC 1891 and STATISTICS
MAP of NOTIFIABLE DISEASES 1898
Constable John (William John aka Jack) Nevin, ca.1880 photographed by his brother Thomas J. Nevin.
Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR. Watermarked.
Constable John (William John) Nevin (1852-1891), known to the family as Jack, was the younger brother Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-48473777982981879432020-01-03T18:15:00.022+11:002024-01-22T12:47:28.833+11:00Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)DAY SISTERS, Elizabeth Rachel Nevin, Mary Sophia Axup and descendants
MINNIE DREW nee Nevin and family, Tasmania 1884-1974
Minnie Drew ca. 1917 born Mary Ann Nevin (1884-1974) known to all as Minnie.
Photographer: possibly her father Thomas J. Nevin snr
Youngest daughter of Thomas J. Nevin and Elizabeth Rachel Day
Copyright © KLW NFC Imprint Private Collection 2020
The Drew Family Album
The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-30468792974801175882019-11-07T17:40:00.006+11:002023-09-10T07:05:44.772+10:00Rosanna Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin's studio 1870sROSANNA and WILLIAM DOMENEY Recherche Bay, Tasmania
TILLEY and DOMENEY Title Deeds Warwick St. Hobart, Tasmania
MORRISON family Mary and Jane New Wharf, Hobart Tasmania
WILLIAM LEGRAND book seller and conchologist
THOMAS J. NEVIN highs and lows 1870s-1890s
Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) born in London and baptised at St Mary, Rotherhithe UK, married Belfast-born photographer ThomasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-14847272044823579252019-09-11T17:18:00.002+10:002021-01-02T06:30:44.802+11:00Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876BIGGS FAMILY Triple Wedding 1855
ALFRED BARRETT BIGGS Transit of Venus 1874
CITY PHOTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT Thomas J. Nevin
The Biggs family
Abraham Biggs (1799-1875) was a builder and contractor from Bedford, England who arrived in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1833 as a free settler with his wife Eliza Biggs née Coleman (1801-1891) and three sons aboard the Sir John Rae Reid. In Tasmania, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-59918253089135176632018-12-09T16:51:00.001+11:002020-09-19T17:22:31.108+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDLLAND DEALS in VDL of CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH 1839-62
DISAMBIGUATION: Elizabeth Goldsmith 1855 and Elizabeth Goldsmith 1921
Wrest Point casino and the area behind extending up through Lord Street Sandy Bay which Captain Edward and Elizabeth Goldsmith acquired in 1840 and sold in 1852. Taken from Battery Point. Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2014
THE LIST: HISTORIC DEEDS & TITLES
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-23205998607863378282018-09-17T10:17:00.004+10:002021-05-17T11:54:04.738+10:00Gold seekers Thomas Nevin, John Thorpe and Duncan Chisholm 1869GOLD MINING Tasmania
JOHN NEVIN snr land grant
THOMAS NEVIN photographer
DUNCAN CHISHOLM teacher
JOHN THORPE jun hotelier
The last dig at the Mt Mary gold mine Cygnet 1900
Mr Cowen, sitting, Mr Crowe & sons
Archives Office Tasmania Ref: PH30/1/5057
Gold at Port Cygnet Tasmania
It may have been an April Fool's Day joke or it may have been a bonanza. The Tasmanian Times, which regularly Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-14099097426335509292018-06-21T20:27:00.034+10:002023-05-18T10:57:57.973+10:00Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922ESTATE of CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH in CHANCERY, London
MARY SOPHIA DAY his niece at Hobart, Tasmania
GEORGE MATTHEWS ARNOLD solicitor, Gravesend, Kent
BENTLEY and TOLHURST descendants
View from the tower of St Mary the Virgin Church, Chalk Kent UK, known as Chalk Church where lie the graves of Captain Edward Goldsmith and family - looking down Church Lane to Lower Higham Road, the Salt MarshesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-29952063105416390012018-06-06T17:57:00.003+10:002020-09-19T17:22:32.734+10:001854: a year on shore at Hobart Tasmania for Captain Edward GoldsmithCAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH master mariner and merchant
HOBART, TASMANIA (Van Diemen's Land) 1854
[Hobart Town from the Domain]
Author/Creator: Bull, Knud Geelmuyden, 1811-1889
Publication Information: [ca. 1854]
Physical description: 1 painting : oil on paper laid on canvas ; 34 x 51 cm.
Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office
The yearUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-17580933485015581412018-04-30T16:14:00.001+10:002020-10-18T12:15:56.724+11:00John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documentsJohn NEVIN: the ship Fairlie July 1852
Miss Mary NEVIN: the ship Columbus October 1854
Mr James and Mrs Mary NEVIN: the ship Kingston August 1854
1851-1852
Former soldier of the Royal Scots First Regiment, John Nevin snr (1808-1887), his wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875), and their four children all under 12 years old (Thomas James, Mary Ann, Rebecca Jane and William John) boarded the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-71447283153858159952018-02-12T16:50:00.005+11:002021-05-16T16:18:00.402+10:00Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851CAPTAIN EDWARD GOLDSMITH 1851
ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
BLACKFACE performance
WARNING & DISCLAIMER::
The resources in this article contain offensive language and negative stereotypes. Such primary historical documents should be seen in the context of the period and as a reflection of attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The items are part of the historical record, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com