tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65134611264738237492012-01-29T18:01:38.678+11:00Ω 19th century Australian police and commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)Thomas J. Nevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12387268300485569704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6513461126473823749.post-63420815165881450612011-06-26T22:26:00.002+10:002011-07-04T08:59:22.935+10:00

Professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin became a member of the LOYAL UNITED BROTHERS LODGE, A. & I.O.O.F. (Australian and International Order of Odd Fellows) in 1869 and fulfilled several roles within the Society, including official photographer, committee member for the Anniversary Ball held at the Bird and Hand Hotel, and agent for the Secretary. During September 1875, he placed an

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AFTER the CHINIQUY RIOTS .... Hobart Town Hall interior 1879. Artist unknown. Private Collection, Copyrighted Antique Print Room THE HOBART TOWN HALL RIOTERS The Hobart newspaper The Mercury of June 26, 1879 was a special edition in many ways for photographer and Town Hall keeper Thomas Nevin. It contained a dramatic account of the riot at the Town Hall the previous evening, details of which

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ANOTHER MUGSHOT by NEVIN taken in 1875 The carte-de-visite (above) of prisoner John Sullivan, transported to Van Diemen's Land prior to 1853 (when transportation ceased to Tasmania) on board the Rodney 2, was recently added to the collection of Tasmanian prisoner photographs displayed online at the National Library of Australia with the incorrect (and impossible) attribution to the

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Excerpt from: ABC TV (Aust) news report by Siobhan Heanue, 2 April 2011. NB: this report contains unfactual and erroneous statements by both the journalist and interviewee. For AUTHENTIC and ACCURATE research see this article which reviews the NLA publication Exiled (2010) with specific examples of Barnard's suppositions, prevarications and omissions, titled Thomas Francis was Photographed by

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TESTING THE BY-LAW at the ALL NATIONS HOTEL Thomas J. Nevin was retained as police photographer and assistant bailiff by the City Corporation on compassionate consideration for his family after his dismissal in December 1880 from the full-time civil service position of Town Hall keeper, ostensibly on the grounds of inebriation while on duty. However, the City Corporation had

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Seven (7) previously unpublished photographs by Thomas J.Nevin or pertaining to Thomas J. Nevin's photography from the 1870s were scanned and submitted to this weblog by private collector Liam Peters in December 2010. The brief descriptions below of each item will be expanded into an article for each photograph within the next few months. SUMMARY: 1.A hand coloured vignetted portrait of a

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The research we have provided on these weblogs since 2003 about the police work of professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin in Tasmania during the 1870s and the mugshots he produced has stimulated and inspired a global reading public. If you are curious enough to pursue your own detective work regarding the prisoner's identity in this handful of the few remaining mugshots yet to be documented (

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Edward Wallace aka Timothy Donovan was a transported felon, arriving in Hobart from Dublin on board the Blenheim (2), on February 2nd, 1849. He became an habitual offender. His photograph is held at the Mitchell Library Sydney, SLNSW, in a box of nine cartes-de-visite of prisoners taken by Thomas J. Nevin at the Hobart Gaol. The collection was bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell to the State

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Thomas FRANCIS was discharged from Port Arthur, per the first notice (below) in the police gazette dated 31st January - 4th February, 1874. Note that no physical details of the prisoner had been recorded by the police up to that date, 4th February 1874, because he had not yet been photographed. A second notice appeared in the police gazette one week later, dated 6th February 1874, which included

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Pictured: Jackie Coogan as the Kid finds something amusing in the Police Gazette ... Jackie Coogan as Charlie Chaplin's co-star in The Kid (1921) finds something amusing in the Police Gazette. The Kid Motion Picture © MCMXXI Charles Chaplin Snapshot from DVD Warner Bros 2009TASMANIAN POLICE GAZETTES In 1884, the Colonial Government of Tasmania changed the name of its weekly police gazette

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Parliament House Hobart 1873 Unattributed Ref: AUTAS001124075169 State Library of Tasmania How many people in Tasmania over the decade 1866 to 1875 were convicted of a crime, and how many were photographed? These tables from the Journals of the House of Assembly 1875-6 give the statistics for the Decennial Returns of persons dealt with by the Superior Courts (first table) and a Comparative

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This Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery notice about their photographic collections appeared in November 2006. It is now September 2010, and the promised website with viewable databases of their vast photographic holdings is still not up and running. The TMAG holds a sizable collection of rare works by Thomas J. Nevin TMAG notice of website redevelopment 2006 for the images collections. Click

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"... portraits of prisoners taken in the dock ..." THOMAS BOCK Police artists worked in the Supreme Court of Tasmania from as early as 1824. An album of portraits of "prisoners taken in the dock" (Dunbar, QVMAG catalogue 1991:25) by Thomas Bock, the father of Thomas Nevin's mentor Alfred Bock, was on sale at the Sydney booksellers Angus and Robertson in 1910 when collector William Dixson bought

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THE PHOTOGRAPHER Professional and commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin undertook the job of systematically photographing prisoners who were tried at the Supreme Court, Hobart from mid 1871 at the behest of the Tasmanian government. His job description was to photograph as a priority those men who were sentenced to longer terms, usually several years. This was the standard police procedure per

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"Look for a long time at what pleases you and longer still at what pains you." Colette Photographed from Nevin's original. © KLW NFC 2010 ARR Carte-de-visite of Elizabeth Rachel Day, ca. 1870-71. Married on July 12, 1871 to photographer Thomas J. Nevin. This portrait is one of six extant photographs of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day taken by her husband between 1865 and 1900.© The Nevin Family

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Lyn Hagan is a British artist who used these two photographs by Nevin of prisoners James Harper (on left) and Charles Downes (on right) to create her own images. ... Thomas J Nevin's photographs of Tazmanian convicts. Read more at Post mortem/convict http://lynhagan.com/page9.htm ARTIST INFO: Lyn Hagan comes from Newcastle, UK. She graduated from the Chelsea School of Art in 2004 and

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ALIASES, COPIES & MISATTRIBUTION... numbered copies ...George White as Nutt,  George Nutt alias White ...Above: The database image of George NUTT with verso at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery: note that the verso is inscribed with the conventional date of Nevin's photographic registration (1874), the alias, and the ship on which Nutt was originally transported before 1853, but the

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Samuel Page held the government contracts for the Royal Mail coach deliveries between Hobart and Launceston, and contracted Nevin for photographic advertisements of his coachline. Samuel Page lived at Belle Vue, New Town, a villa with stables, paddocks and gardens. He transported prisoners under government contract from regional stations and courts to be "received" at H.M. Gaol, Hobart,

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MOTTO of the ROYAL SCOTS "Nemo me impune Lacessit". "No-one touches me with impunity" (or "Dinna mess wi' me!") While research into the life and times of photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) in Tasmania has uncovered many fascinating aspects of Australian colonial history, the life and times of his father John Nevin (1808-1887) opens up many more vistas on key world events. Here are details

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Hobart Town Hall (Tasmania), opened in 1864. Photo © KLW NFC 2008 ARR. On a dry Spring afternoon, a day or so before 19th September, 1879, a reporter at The Mercury newspaper office looked out his window and across the street to the Hobart Town Hall, sized up the state of the saplings struggling to survive in front of the portico, and sat down to pen a vituperative paragraph about the "

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CARDBOARD CONVICTISM ...Cardboard convictHyde Park Barracks SydneyAll photos © KLW NFC 2009-2010 ARRIf A.H. Boyd were alive today, he would be very surprised indeed to read that he was the photographer of the extant Tasmanian prisoners' photographs from the 1870s-80s we currently hold in public and private collections.Obituary for A.H. Boyd,The Mercury, 24 November 1891This is the obituary for

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The former Commandant at Port Arthur, James Boyd, incumbent to the position prior to the appointment of A.H. Boyd (who was NOT a photographer), had left Tasmania by the 29th December 1873 on the barque Ethel, bound for England (per The Mercury, 29 Dec 1873). On board were specimens of Tasmanian coal, minerals, blue gum and other specimens of Eucalyptus of interest to the British Royal Colonial

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An exhibition of early colonial portraits titled HUSBANDS and WIVES has recently opened at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Australia. Apart from the usual collection of cartes-de-visite, there are several daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of individuals, couples and family groups on display, including the coloured ambrotype by Thomas Glaister, ca. 1858 (below, from the NPG online).

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Athol Nevin, known as both Athol Clarence Nevin and Athol Tennyson Nevin, was born to Thomas James "Sonny" Nevin ((1874-1948) and Gertrude Tennyson Bates (1883-1958) at Launceston, Tasmania on 26 October, 1915. He would have known his grandfather, photographer Thomas Nevin who died in 1923 but not his grandmother Elizabeth Nevin who died in 1914. In 1920 Athol C. Nevin travelled with his

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Albert Frederick Morris, born in Birmingham, UK in 1917 and known as Bert, married Eva Elizabeth Nevin (1917-2008), grand daughter of photographer Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin, in Melbourne, August 1935. Bert and Eva's flight from Hobart just weeks before their marriage was an elopement so worrying to Eva's parents Albert and Emily Nevin that they inserted this notice "MISSING GIRL" in The

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On February 2, 1872 Thomas J. Nevin placed an advertisement in The Mercury informing the public and visitors (tourists) that his photographs, taken on a Colonists' Trip down the River Derwent to Adventure Bay on the eastern side of Bruny Island, were ready and for sale. Three extant photographs of the trip are held at the State Library of Tasmania, and although included in The [Samuel] Clifford

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Hard times 1872 Thomas Nevin's commercial studio stamp ca. 1871 Images courtesy Marcel Safier © 2006. Small businesses in Tasmania were affected by an economic downturn in 1872, precipitated by excessive costs involved in railway construction, a decline in population, and corruption and nepotism within government. Photographers such as Cherry and Spurling were forced to the brink of

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Thomas Nevin's family doctor, E.L. Crowther ... Dr Edward L. Crowther ca. 1880 Printed by the Anson Brothers State Library of Tasmania Ref:AUTAS001126072727 Thomas Nevin, photographer, 140 Elizabeth-street, Hobart, inserted an advertisement in The Mercury which appeared over several weeks during September 1875, soliciting applications from the medical profession for services to members and

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Less than a month after the death of his friend, Wesleyan preacher William Genge on the 17th January 1881, Thomas Nevin's father, John Nevin (1808-1887) was burgled at the Nevin cottage in Kangaroo Valley, Hobart, which adjoined his orchards, school and Wesleyan chapel. "My Cottage in the Wilderness" by John Nevin, 1868. Mitchell Library NSW Photo © KLW NFC 2009 Arr John Nevin's two surviving

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Vernacular photographies are anything that is not used as "art" ... Thomas J. Nevin began his photographic career in the mid 1860s within the urban free-settler society of a British penal colony: Hobart Tasmania. His apprenticeships were served with the highly commercial portrait photographers Alfred Bock, H. H. Baily and Charles A. Woolley. A lifelong partnership with the prolific Samuel

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The following written extracts are from The Photographic News London 1866. While some prisons and jurisdictions in England had begun judicial and prison photography by 1859, the practice was not universal until 1872. John Robinson, booking photograph and record Millbank Prison 1861 Courtesy Bedford Gaol Database In 1873 Thomas J. Nevin began his commission as the "prison limner" in Tasmania.

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The Nevin brothers, Thomas (T. J. Nevin, 1842-1923) and John (W. J. Nevin, 1852-1891) served the Police and Prisons Departments of the Tasmanian government from the late 1860s to the late 1880s. Thomas was contracted as prisons and police photographer by the family solicitor, Attorney-General and later Premier, W.R. Giblin, from 1868, serving the New Town Territorial Police and the Municipal

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In early December 1880, Thomas Nevin was dismissed from the position of "Keeper" at the Hobart Town Hall for inebriation while on duty. The Mayor's Committee expressed deep regret at the dismissal (reported in The Mercury December-January 1880-1881), and mindful of his growing family, the Council decided to retain his photographic services. He was re-assigned to civil service with warrant and

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FATHERS and SONS and the BROTHER-in-LAW's PORTRAIT: Thomas James Nevin senior and junior, and John Perkins senior and junior. John Perkins senior (1812-1877) State Library of Tasmania Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [19--] Members of the Parliaments of Tasmania No. 98 Ref: AUTAS001125647909 Note: this photograph is wrongly attributed and wrongly dated by the State Library of Tasmania to John Watt

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Thomas J. Nevin photographed A. H. Boyd ca 1876: compare these two portraits. Left: believed to be a portrait of A.H. Boyd taken by Charles A. Woolley ca. 1866 (Long, TMAG Collection, 1995). Right: the same man, A. H. Boyd, taken 10 years later. Portrait by Thomas J. Nevin bearing his official government studio stamp with the Royal Arms , lion and unicorn rampant, on verso (Harrisson

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Very few of these lantern slide reproductions and paper reprints by Beattie and Searle from Nevin's original negative images of 1870s convicts have survived. This item, of prisoner William Meaghers (1874), is held in the NLA collections with the prisoner's surname misspelt and photographer misattribution to Edward Searle (1915). This image and photograph of prisoner William Meaghers was taken

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Seasons Greetings 2009 to all our readers, researchers, contributors and extended family. Visitors to Thomas J. Nevin's weblogs on 2nd January 2010 at midday: Click on images for large view Exactly 135 years ago, Thomas Nevin commemorated Christmas with a "PHOTOGRAPHIC FEAT". On Christmas Day, 25th December 1874, The Mercury newspaper (Tasmania) published a notice which served the dual

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nla.pic-an24612719 Nevin, Thomas J., 1842-ca. 1922. Leonard Hand, native, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount: albumen; 9.5 x 5.7 cm. PIC P1029/64 LOC Album 935 Inscription: "211"--On reverse. Thomas Nevin photographed Leonard Hand on or about the 5th August, 1875, on the occasion of Hand's transfer to H.M. Gaol, Hobart Town from Port Arthur.

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January 18th, 1868. On the day fixed for his departure from Tasmania, 18th January 1868, H.R.H Prince Alfred was presented with an album of photographs.The album contained "eighty three photographs illustrative of the scenery of Tasmania, forty eight portraits of children born in the colony, and nine plates immediately connected with the Prince's visit" according to the report of the visit

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Who were they? They were T.J. Nevin's sitters for police records, mostly "Supreme Court men" photographed on committal for trial at the Supreme Court adjoining the Hobart Gaol when they were isolated in silence for a month after sentencing. If sentenced for a long term at the Supreme Court Launceston, they were photographed, bathed, shaved and dressed on being received in Hobart. These procedures

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When Thomas Nevin sat down to read The Mercury on the morning of 24th October 1872 and turned to an article reprinted from the London papers on "the valuable working of the Prevention of Crimes Act, or as it is better known, the Habitual Criminals Act" of 1871, he was more than aware of the use of photography by police. He had already taken photographs of prisoners at the Hobart Gaol at the

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TRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHERS 1874On this tour, Clifford and Nevin travelled on the main road north from Hobart to Launceston.Courtesy State Library of TasmaniaSamuel Clifford ca. 1874Melton Mowbray from the Bothwell RoadRef: AUTAS001124850124Tasmanian professional photographers Thomas Nevin and Samuel Clifford were close friends and business partners from the 186os until Samuel Clifford's death in

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An eventful week .... June 26, 1879 Francis Shearan, Photo by T.J. Nevin 1878 The Hobart newspaper The Mercury of June 26, 1879 was a special edition in many ways for Thomas Nevin. It contained a dramatic account of the riot at the Town Hall the previous evening, details of which may well have been supplied to the reporter by Nevin himself who was not mentioned as the Town Hall Keeper

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APPROPRIATION: Frank Miller Above: the Elwick Racecourse photo, "stolen" by Alfred Winter's apprentice Frank Miller 1877. Courtesy State Library of Tasmania Title: Grand Stand Elwick In:Self album No. 13 Publisher:Hobart, Tas. :[s.n.], 1878 Description:1 photographic print : sepia toned ; 11 x 16 cm. Format: [picture]. Photograph ADRI:AUTAS001126186972 Source: Allport Library and Museum of

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"The head and body and voice are decidedly pussy's; but there the relationship with that useful domestic animal ceases..." Courtesy of Museum VictoriaJohn Gould print image of the Long-nosed PotorooPotorous tridactylus(formerly known as Hypsiprymnus apicalis)Photo from Mammals of Australia, Vol. II Plate 68Part of the 3 Volumes by John Gould, F.R.S.Published by the author, 26 Charlotte Street,

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How Thomas Nevin's emu died at the Hobart Town Hall...Was it the Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis ...?The fence of the site of the Hobart Town Hall ca. 1860.Stereo attributed to Samuel Clifford,State Library of Tasmania,Ref: AUTAS001125643312 AN ORNITHOLOGICAL DISASTER.-- A young Emu the property of Mr. Nevin keeper of the Town Hall, came to an untimely end last week by being strangled in

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A PHOTOGRAPHIC FEAT On Christmas Day, 25th December 1874, The Mercury newspaper (Tasmania) published a notice which served the dual purpose of praising Nevin's photographic talents and suggesting by way of praise that the "literary curiosity" would make a great gift as a Christmas card: T.J. Nevin's photographic feat, The Mercury 25 December 1874 TRANSCRIPT A PHOTOGRAPHIC FEAT. - Mr T.

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This photograph was taken by H. H. Baily on Regatta Day, Hobart, February 1872. The Mercury published a notice to inform the public of its availability. The notice describes the scene in great detail. Photo by H. H. Baily, Regatta Day 1872. State Library of Tasmania AUTAS001126252188 State Library of Tasmania Title: Regatta: championship gig race, Hobart Town Publisher: [Hobart, Tas. :

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The poem "My Cottage in the Wilderness" by John Nevin, 1868, father of Thomas J. Nevin, viewed here for the first time in four generations by a great great grand daughter, is held at the State Library of NSW, in the David Scott Mitchell Collection."My Cottage in the Wilderness" by John Nevin, 1868. Mitchell Library NSWPhoto © KLW NFC 2009 Arr.By any measure, this is an accomplished poem. John

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The following short article appeared in The Mercury, 22 January 1874. "Mr. Nevin" may have been the photographer Thomas Nevin, but it is more likely to have been Thomas' father John Nevin, given the somewhat frequent mentions in The Mercury in these years to his encounters with the wildlife at Kangaroo Valley, Hobart. The wording is somewhat ambiguous: was the bird wounded by Mr Nevin? Or was it

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There are several reprints of a particular photograph of empty streets and the penitentiary at the Port Arthur prison site which was taken in the 19th century by an unknown photographer. It was enlarged as a single frame reprint by the Anson Bros ca. 1888. As a viewer, you can see that there are no people in the photograph. Click on images for large view Photos © KLW NFC 2009 Arr Anson

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In early 1977, Special Collections Librarian at the State Library of Tasmania, G.T. Stilwell, established from archival records (AOT MB 2/98) that parents John and Mary Nevin had arrived in Hobart in 1852 with four children: Thomas, Mary Ann, Rebecca, and William John (Jack). He forwarded this information in a letter to the QVMAG where curator John McPhee was preparing an exhibitions of Thomas

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This selection from the Lucy Batchelor Album of 1870s carte-de-visite portraits by Tasmanian photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923), submitted courtesy of Robyn and Peter Bishop, was scanned from the original page. Each carte is mounted by the cut-out frame of the album leaves. The album is ca. 150 years old. Above: unknown young man ca 1873, photographed in Nevin's studio at 140 Elizabeth

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THOMAS NEVIN'S ELEVEN The Mitchell Library at the State Library of NSW has catalogued eleven prisoner photographs so far which were taken by Thomas Nevin and his younger brother Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol between 1875 and 1884. All of these men were habitual offenders with long criminal records who spent as much if not more time in gaol as out on assignment to an employer. These are

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Thomas James "Sonny" Nevin ... Thomas, Gertrude and Athol Nevin travelled to and from California on board the steamers, S.S. Ventura and S.S. Sonoma, 1920-1922... Source of steamer postcard images CardCow.com Known to the family as "Sonny", when Thomas James Nevin was born in Hobart on 16 April, 1874 (d.17 January 1948), he was given the same first and second names as his father,

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The big tabletop stereo viewer and the Freemason ...Thomas J. Nevin, self-portrait with table stereo viewer, ca. 1875From © The Shelverton Collection 2007 -2009 ARR.Although this image is faint - it is a scan of a print pasted into the scrapbook of his son George - it shows clearly enough that George's father, photographer Thomas J. Nevin, was rather fond of his big box tabletop stereograph

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When Tasmanian photographer Thomas Nevin (1842-1923) married Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914) on July 12th, 1871 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley, Hobart, the couple were gifted a medallion issued to commemorate the end of the Crimean War: the Fall of Sebastopol 1855 and the ensuing Treaty of Paris 1856. The provenance of the 1856 Treaty of Paris medallion prior to its acquisition by the

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In the first of his two three-year contracts to the Prisons Department of the Tasmanian Colonial Government and the Hobart Town Hall Municipal Police Office (1873-1880), commercial photographer and civil servant Thomas J. Nevin deployed the conventional techniques of 19th century commercial studio vignette portraiture in matters of posing, photographing and printing the final official prisoner

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From the David Scott Mitchell Collection, 1907 ...Photography © KLW NFC 2009 ARR.Above: Detail of Nevin's carte of condemned prisoner James Sutherland with the blue hand-tinted scarf intended to reflect reality, one of several extant hand-tinted prisoner mugshots by Nevin. The eyes too are tinted for added expression. This photograph was taken only a few days before Sutherland's execution in June

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The true origins of the photographic misattribution to non-photographer and Port Arthur official A.H. Boyd of Thomas J. Nevin's police mugshots of Tasmanian prisoners 1870s-1880s lies with a reference to the art historian Margaret Glover's article "Some Port Arthur Experiments" (1979) by Chris Long and/or Warwick Reeder (1995).In 1979, Margaret Glover published an article about Port Arthur titled

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Younger brother Jack Nevin ... William John Nevin (1852-1891) was known to the family as Jack. He was less than six months old when he arrived in Hobart, Tasmania with his parents and siblings Thomas and Mary Anne on board the Fairlie, 1852. Jack (W.J. or John) Nevin, ca. 1880 photographed by his brother Thomas J. Nevin. From © The Nevin Family Collection 2009 ARR. William John Nevin (1852-

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CATEGORIES FEEDS * 19th Century Prison Photography * The Port Arthur Convicts Commission * Exhibitions and Publications * Attribution Issues * Biographica * Newspapers * Private Collections * Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits * Stereographs * Descendants and In-Laws * Nevin Family Collections * Site maps

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These are some of the original documents and press release prepared for the 1977 exhibition of T. J. Nevin's prisoner mugshots at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, catalogued as "Convict portraits, Port Arthur 1874" in public collections: Above: Letter to Specialist Collections Geoff Stilwell at the State Library of Tasmania from the Queen Victoria Museum and Art

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It is likely that the man photographed here standing on Thomas Nevin's carpet was William Graves, and that Nevin photographed him in May 1875. This may not be the only photograph of William Graves taken by Nevin. There may have been a standard half-body vignette printed as well to attach to Grave's crime sheet. But such a standard carte is not extant, and there may be a reason why none ever

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In November 2000,the National Library of Australia reproduced 22 carte-de-visite vignettes from their holdings of 78 [84] of Thomas Nevin's Tasmanian prisoner ID photographs, for the purpose of mounting an exhibition called IN A NEW LIGHT: A Love of Order. The exhibition in summary form is still online. Above: In A New Light: A Love of Order, webshot of front page. This section online,

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More than 3000 Tasmanian prisoner identification photographs (mugshots) were taken by the brothers Thomas and (Constable) John (Jack) Nevin between 1872 and 1884.T. J. Nevin, 9 convicts photographsMitchell Library NSW (PXB 274)Photo KLW NFC 2009 ArrMost of those 3000 are deemed missing, possibly destroyed; the extant 300 or so in public and private collections are significant to the national

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Emanuel Blore and Job Smith aka William Campbell From the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection Reproduced from page 36 of Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: A Directory (TMAG 1995) Photo © KLW NFC 2008 ARR Click on image for large view On the left, the verso of convict Job Smith's carte bears the simple inscription: Job Smith Alias Campbell Alias Boodle and in a very different

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The article below appeared in The Bulletin, a weekly Australian magazine on May 16, 1978. The journalist's name was not recorded. It was published a year after the initial exhibition of the Tasmanian convict portraits by Thomas Nevin, held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in 1977.The article detailed the criminal career of a convict called "William Forster", and included an image of a

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GENESIS of the BOYD MISATTRIBUTION A.H. Boyd (1827-1891) was a Hobart-born accountant appointed to government service in 1848. He served at the Port Arthur prison as Civil Commandant from May1871 until his forced resignation in December 1873 under allegations of corruption and nepotism directed at his brother-in-law Attorney-General W.R. Giblin in Parliament (Walch's Tasmanian Almanac 1873;

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Thomas Nevin (1842-1923) worked with the Military police, the Municipal police, and the Territorial police between 1852 and 1888. One of the earliest legal documents testifying to his support as a photographer by the Colonial Government was signed by his solicitor in 1868, William Robert Giblin, Attorney-General in 1873 and later Premier. W.R. Giblin supported and sanctioned Nevin's commission

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George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957) was born at the Hobart Town Hall during his father Thomas Nevin's occupancy as Office and Hall Keeper, and photographer with the Municipal Police Office. Thanks to George's prescience in keeping photographs taken by his father of the previous generation, images have survived in a scrapbook as reproductions of the 1870s originals of his grandparents, parents, uncles

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There are not many extant self portraits of Tasmanian colonial photographers of the 1850s-1880. The watercolour attributed to Alfred Bock of a young gentleman is held at the State Library of Tasmania; the photographs are held in descendants' private collections. These portraits all exhibit interesting variations in male facial hair fashions.1850s:A fresh-faced teenager.STATE LIBRARY of TASMANIA[

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NEVIN's FERN STEREOGRAPHSTasmanian Museum and Art Gallery CollectionsTMAG Ref: Q1994.56.13 T. Nevin impressAt least five stereographs of ferns by Thomas Nevin are held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, dated to ca. 1870. Their catalogue entries (online 2006) included these details:Q1994.56.13 ITEM NAME: Photograph: MEDIUM: sepia salt paper stereoscope , MAKER: T Nevin [Artist]; DATE: 1870c

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More and more examples of Thomas Nevin's studio portraits have surfaced in recent years, and a few share ONE very odd feature. They have been inexpertly daubed with two colours: RED or raspberry, and VIOLET or blueberry, and some show a total lack of perspective in the process. Click on images A modern viewer would assume that these portraits all have their provenance in a family album,

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From glass negative to printed carte:Thomas Nevin's capture of convict Tuck, but was it BEWLEY TUCK or JOHN TUCK?One man, two names, one image. Click on imagesIn addition to the photograph of Bewley Tuck, the Archives Office of Tasmania holds two relevant convict records :71580TuckJohn04 Aug 1831Argyle18 Mar 1831Plymouth71572TuckBewley16 May 1833Lotus13 Dec 1832PortsmouthTwo versions exist of the

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Two different studio stamps were used by the firm Nevin & Smith until 1868: Elizabeth Rachel Day, married Thomas Nevin in 1871 Taken by Thomas Nevin at Nevin & Smith (late Bock's) ca. 1865 140, Elizabeth Street Hobart Town Full-length portrait, carte-de-visite From © The Nevin Family Collections & Eva Morris Estate 2009 ARR. Watermarked. Click on images for large view Elizabeth Rachel Day (

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Brothers Thomas and Jack Nevin at H.M. Gaol, Hobart. Younger brother Jack Nevin ... Jack (W.J. or John) Nevin, ca. 1880 Photographed by his brother Thomas J. Nevin. From © The Nevin Family Collection 2009 ARR. William John Nevin (1852-1891) was was less than six months old when he arrived in Hobart, Tasmania with his parents and siblings Thomas, Mary Anne and Rebecca on board the Fairlie,

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LOCAL Historian Trevor Owen Wilks' A History of Kangaroo Valley-Lenah Valley 1847-1995 (with a foreword by the Governor of Tasmania, undated) included on page 82 a story about Thomas Nevin's sister Mary Anne (b.1846 Belfast) who was seriously injured in an attack by a cow at the Kangaroo Valley farm. Trevor Owen Wilks has written down the story as told by a grand daughter of Thomas Nevin (Lola

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Albert Edward Nevin (1888-1955) was the seventh child, fifth son and last born child to photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) and his wife Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914). Youngest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin, Albert Nevin, 1914 From © The Nevin Family Collection 2009 ARR. On the verso of the photo is written: "To Miss E. Davis, From Mr. A. Nevin, 1914" Albert was

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The Anson brothers photographers, and there were only two - Joshua, who called himself John once paroled from prison on January 12, 1879, and his brother Henry who died in 1890 (the third brother Richard, b. 1851 died in infancy) - bought Samuel Clifford's studio and stock in 1878. Included in that purchase were photographs, negatives, cartes and stereographs by Clifford & Nevin taken and printed

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This carte-de-visite is a jewel in the crown of early stereography in Australia. It is the only surviving image of an 1860s photographer at work with a stereoscopic viewer.Thomas J. Nevin, late 1860s, pictured seated here holding a stereoscopic viewer, stereographs, and wearing white gloves. Taken at his studio, The City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St., Hobart Town.From © The Nevin

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Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day: wife of Thomas Nevin An item in b and w magnifying the face of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) Photo by her husband Thomas J. Nevin, ca. 1900. From © The Nevin Family Collection 2009 ARR Click on image for full version This is an old black and white enlargement of a detail of a portrait of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin (1847-1914) in her later years,

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Third son William John Nevin was born 14th March 1878 at the Town Hall, Hobart, where his father Thomas Nevin was appointed Office and Hall keeper for the City Corporation and photographer for the Municipal Police Office, having leased his photographic studio in 1876, while maintaining a photographic practice and studio with younger brother Jack Nevin at New Town. This son was named after Thomas

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Tasmanian photographer Thomas Nevin (1842-1923) is pictured here seated with his wife Elizabeth Nevin nee Day. Jack Nevin, Thomas Nevin's younger brother, is standing extreme right, posed with left hand on hip. The occasion was most likely a wedding, as the three younger women all wear the same head dress, as bridesmaids. From © The Nevin Family Collections & Eva Morris Estate 2009 ARR Click

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The new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, opened to the public on December 4, 2008. National Portrait Gallery Canberra 23 October 2008 Photos © KLW NFC October 2008 Photo © NFC 2008 ARR Currently displayed in the A and S Liangis Gallery are six identification carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian convicts borrowed from the National Library of Australia with the correct attribution to

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Click on images for readable version These two men were not incarcerated at Port Arthur in 1874. They were both discharged from the Hobart Gaol on the same day, January 7th, 1874 and Thomas Nevin photographed them both on that date. Discharge of Fleming and Baker, January 7th, 1874 Fleming was arrested several times over the next twelve months for theft, larceny, escape and absconding:

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Thomas J. Nevin's father John Nevin (b. 1808) was one of 30 "out-pensioners" on board the Fairlie when it left Plymouth on March 11th, 1852, bound for Hobart Tasmania with 294 convicts. Thomas' mother Mary Nevin was one of 24 women on board, and Thomas himself, together with his three younger siblings, Mary Ann, Rebecca Jane and William John were numbered among the 47 children. However, the

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Thomas J. Nevin's portrait of Port Arthur convict John Fitzpatrick 1874National Library of Australianla.pic-an24612603Location: PIC P1029/11 LOC Album 935Photographer: Nevin, Thomas J., 1842-ca. 1922.John Fitzpatrick, per Ld. [i.e. Lord] Lyndock 2, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.3 x 5.6 cm. Part of Nevin, Thomas J. series Convict portraits

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Thomas Nevin's portrait of his sister Mary Anne Nevin (b. 1846) Portraits by Thomas Nevin of his mother Mary, father John, bride and fiancee Elizabeth, and brother Jack.      Thomas Nevin was known by a number of variations of his name, and several of these are now used in public catalogues and holdings. His signature on official documents and name on his studio stamps include: Thomas

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Biographers Professor Joan Kerr and G. T. Stilwell (1992) Curator John McPhee (ABC TV 2009) of Nevin exhibition 1977 Thomas Nevin was known by a number of variations of his name, and several of these are now used in public catalogues and holdings. His signature on official documents and name on his studio stamps include: Thomas Nevin, Thomas Nevin Senior, Thomas J. Nevin, Thos Nevin, T.

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A selection of salt paper stereographs from the late 1860s and early 1870s by Thomas J. Nevin. Several are from the series Q1994.56 from The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection. A total of 53 were listed in the TMAG databases upto November 2006. View all Get your own Some of the TMAG salt paper stereographs (sometimes also called stereoscopes) have either been poor scanned, resulting in

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More on the "GHOST" incident ... Click on image for readable version "A REPREHENSIBLE FREAK" From The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Thursday 16 December 1880, page 2 TRANSCRIPT A REPREHENSIBLE FREAK.- A good deal of excitement has lately been caused in Hobart Town by a mysterious and ghostly form that kept appearing from time to time in lonely places, frightening

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DEPARTURE 1852 The convict transport the Fairlie sailed from Plymouth on March 11, 1852 with a total of 292 male adult prisoners and 32 Parkhurst boys and arrived in Hobart on July 3, 1852. The contract was signed on 18th February 1852 to transport 294 convicts. All named convicts documentation is held at the National Archives, Kew, UK : Treasury Solicitor: General Series Papers TS 18/494

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John Watt Beattie located his museum in Hobart but called it the "Port Arthur Museum" where he sold any fragment of any item as historical artefact of Tasmania's convict and aboriginal past, including reproductions. John Watt Beattie ca. 1920 Archives Office of Tasmania Ref:30-430c A visitor to Tasmania in 1916 with the South Australian Commission became so affronted by John Watt Beattie's

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This is not a definitive article on Rogues Galleries, merely a selection of extracts and photographic examples. Some of the earliest integral collections of prisoner mugshots (1857) used as a Rogues Gallery are held in the New York Public Library: Thomas A. Larcom photographs collection, New York PL 1857-1866, Mountjoy Prison 1. Extracts from The Photographic News London 1866. While some

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The National Library of Australia holds a collection of carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian convicts, taken originally by professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin in the 1870s-1880s of men at trial in  the Supreme Court and adjoining Hobart Gaol, and of men released with conditions at the Town Hall Municipal Police Office. Of the eighty-two (82) images online, sixty-one(61) show the

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"There is no criminal type": Dr Goring, the Lombrosian Theory, Bertillonage, and Beattie's Studio reprints of T. J. Nevin's convict portraits of the Parkhurst boys ca 1916.On the left, Havelock Ellis' sketches of the criminal stereotype, and on the right, the thirty outlines based on photographs by Dr. Goring from stock held at the Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight.Source: The New York Times Nov. 2

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Thomas and Jack Nevin at H.M. Gaol 1860sArchives Office of TasmaniaReference: PH30/1/3661Title: Campbell StreetSubject:backyards, churches, courthouses, houses, jails, landscapes, roads & streets, streetscapesLocality:Campbell Street, Campbell Street, HobartDate:1870Caption: View of Campbell Street, at the Melville Street intersection, taken from the Domain.The Archives Office of Tasmania has

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See also these articles: From glass negative to printed carte Aliases, Copies, and Misattribution Caption: Bewley Tuck, convict per Lotus. Photographed at Port Arthur by Thomas Nevin. Archives Office of Tasmania (webshot). Read this article by Carolyn Strange in which she points to the fictionalisation of the past as the dominant modality of museological practice at the Port Arthur

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Stock photograph collections were sold in book form as early as the 1860s.Photographer Thomas Nevin and the firm Nevin & Smith's book collections included these examples:Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection:Nevin & Smith advertising :"Tasmanian Views from Nevin & Smith .... plus Tombstones copied, Terms - Cheap!"1. REF: Q1994.56.20.1 ITEM NAME: Label: MEDIUM: Paper and printing ink, MAKER:

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