Tombstones copied, Terms: - Cheap!

During their brief partnership ca. 1866-1868, Tasmanian photographers Thomas J. Nevin and Robert Smith advertised a service on the back of their stereographs with the wording Views of Residences, Tombstones copied, Terms: - Cheap!. Commercial studios routinely supplied photographic prints of family head stones, grave sites and sepulchral monuments and some, in addition, provided a low cost copy from an impression of a faded and barely legible tombstone epitaph, thereby retaining the original typography.



Photo copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2014-2015
Taken at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 10 November 2014
TMAG REF: Q16826.9

How cheap was "cheap"? Three years previously, when Thomas Nevin was assistant in Alfred Bock's studio at 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart before Bock's departure and Nevin &Smith acquiring the business, he would have taken exception to the word "cheap" directed at Alfred Bock's practice. The dispute about the ownership and copyright of the sennotype process between Henry Frith and Alfred Bock in 1864-1865 embittered both to the point of deciding to quit Tasmania. Frith's rates for carte-de-visite portraits were expensive, two for 10/-, and his disdain for "cheap trash palmed off on the public as cheap photography" was loudly proclaimed in this advertisement in the Mercury of 6th April 1864:



Henry Frith advertisement
Advertising. (1864, April 6). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 20, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8825487

One year later, Frith had ceased publishing his rates. The very public dispute had affected all photographic businesses in Hobart, with Alfred Bock and George Cherry forced to advertise great or extraordinary reductions in prices, both charging identical rates for cdv portraits: 1/- each for a carte-de-visite portrait, or 10s.6d. per dozen, vignettes a little more expensive at 7s.6d per half-dozen:



TRANSCRIPT

GREAT REDUCTION
IN THE PRICE OF    
ALBUM OR CARD PORTRAITS
AT  MR. CHERRY'S,            
Opposite Mr. Mather's, 94, Liverpool street;
Card Portraits, 10s. 6d. per' dozen ; 6s. the haft-dozen. Vignettes, 12s. 6d, per dozen  
7s. 6d the half-dozen. 31o     

EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTION
IN THE PRICE OF      
ALBUM OR CARD PORTRAITS,
AT    
BOCK'S,
140, ELIZABETH STREET, HOBART' TOWN.
Card Portraits, 10s. 6d. per dozen; 6s. the  half dozen.
Vignettes, 12s. 6d. per dozen ; 7s. 6d. the half dozen. tc 

Advertising. (1865, October 16). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved January 20, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8835500

Another photographer in the north of Tasmania advertised a similar service in tombstones in 1867. Peter Laurie Reid's terms, by contrast, were far from cheap: three carte-de-visite portraits for 7s 6d, compared with Alfred Bock and Thomas Nevin's sale of the same for six at 6s, and 7s 6d for vignettes at the City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart.

LONDON PORTRAIT GALLERY. MESSRS. REID & CO., Portrait and Landscape Photographers, Having erected a splendid Gallery, are now prepared to supply card portraits equal to the best London or Melbourne photographs. One trial is solicited. Three card de visite portraits for 7s 6d, or £1 per dozen. Families taken for a moderate sum. Patronised by the Governor. Album portraits of His Excellency Col. Gore . Browne and Mrs. Gore Browne now ready. Portraits taken from locket to life size. Oil paintings anod large pictures of all kinds copied and reduced to card size. Old portraits of every description copied and improved. Messrs. R. and Co have on hand one of the largest and choicest collections of Tasmanian views in the colony, from all parts of the island (views of the Hon. R. Q. Kermode's new mansion-just added to their stock). Houses, monuments, tombstones, drawing rooms, &c. photographed. Visitors to Launceston are invited to call at the London Portrait Gallery, St. John street, nearly opposite the Theatre. Feb. 21. [UNDER the Patronage of His Excellency Colonel Gore Browne, C.B.

Advertising. (1867, March 5). Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), p. 1., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36642307

Even thirty years later, John Watt Beatie charged significantly less, just 10/- per one dozen of small cdvs, half the cost advertised by P. L. Reid and Co., and for the entire album of The Governors of Tasmania (1895),  Beattie charged only £2/2/- which included this photograph of Colonel Gore Browne, C.B., possibly the one advertised and taken by Messrs Reid & Co. in 1867:



Colonel Gore Browne, C.B. (1807-1887)
Title: The governors of Tasmania : from 1804 to 1896 / photographed by J. W. Beattie, 52 Elizabeth Street, Hobart
Creator: Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930, photographer, publisher
Publication: Hobart : J.W. Beattie, [c1896]
Description: 1 album (17 hinged boards, 15 albumen photographs ) : card, gelatin silver photographic prints ; photographs 205 x 153 mm. in album 29 x 26 cm. + 1 loose sheet
Binding: Half bound in green leather, gold bands on spine, gold lettering, patterned endpapers
Format: Album, Photograph
ADRI: AUTAS001142927771
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts



The Nevin and Swan families
Thomas Nevin worked from his New Town studio in the early 1860s (and again after 1880). He photographed many local scenes and vistas from the St John's Church, the Cemetery and the Orphan schools grounds. His sister Mary Ann Nevin enjoyed the public support of amateur photographer and naturalist Morton Allport when she applied for permission to establish a school in nearby Kangaroo Valley in 1865. This stereograph was taken at the Swan family vault at the St Johns Cemetery, New Town and attributed to Morton Allport at the State Library,but it may have been taken or copied by Thomas Nevin, given his advertisement "Tombstones copied" etc.



Title: St John's Cemetery, New Town, Swan vault
Publisher: Hobart : M. Allport, [1860]
Description: 1 photographic print : stereograph : b&w ; 96 x 172 mm
Format: Photograph
ADRI: AUTAS001126252238
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

The Swan family vault was substantial for two reasons: the patriarch John Swan snr was a wealthy retailer who established Swan’s Stores, Elizabeth Street, Hobart.  By the 1830s it was the premier store for clothing, millinery, fabrics, household furniture and upholstery. Premature deaths in the family was another. Mary Swan senior gave birth to fourteen children, including nine daughters. Two daughters, Harriet (1826–1853) and Julia (1834–1853) both died in 1853 of childbirth complications and scarlet fever respectively.



Mrs John Swan senior, Mary Anne (née Cameron 1800– 1869)
ADRI: AUTAS001125883785
Mr John Swan senior (1796–1858)
ADRI: AUTAS001125883801
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts



National Portrait Gallery of Australia
Left:Portrait of Harriet Swan, c 1840
by attributed to Thomas Bock and Unknown
watercolour on ivory (17.5 x 20.0 cm)
Right: Portrait of Julia Swan, c 1840
by attributed to Thomas Bock and Unknown
watercolour on ivory (16.4 x 20.0 cm)

Another daughter, Katherine, married Thomas Daniel Chapman (1815-1884), merchant and politician in 1843. And yet another daughter, Maria Nairn nee Swan, married William Edward Nairn (1812-1869) who had arrived at Hobart in February 1837 on board the Fairlie with Franklin's party. W. E. Nairn was assistant comptroller of the Convict Department in 1843. He had charge of the prisoners in Tasmania and Norfolk Island, was departmental registrar in 1855-56 and comptroller-general of convictsin 1859-68. He was also Sheriff of Hobart in 1857-68. One of the Swan family's sons, John Swan the younger, was Inspector of Police by 1875 when he endorsed Thomas Nevin's commission to photograph prisoners at the Hobart Gaol, and Sheriff of Hobart in the 1880s when he signed the death warrants for James Sutherland and Henry Stock (SLNSW Mitchell Library C203.). John Swan, Inspector of Police, signed off these discharges for prisoners from H. M Gaols in the week ending 17th February 1875, published in the police gazette, Tasmania Information for Police.Thomas Nevin's photograph of prisoner James McNally was taken on discharge from Hobart Town in the preceding fortnight.







Tasmanian prisoner James McNally
Photo by Thomas J. Nevin taken at Hobart, February 1875
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Collection
Ref: Q1985 P0168





1. John Swan Sheriff 1884: warrant for execution of prisoner Henry Stock. Mitchell Library SLNSW.
2. John Swan, Sheriff, Hobart, signed the death warrant for Henry Stock 1884
From Death Warrants V.D.L. Tasmania Supreme Court. Mitchell Library C203.
Photos copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2009

A rather spooky, over-edited photograph of a young John Swan the younger, Inspector of Police and Sheriff of Hobart, was reprinted in 1895 by John Watt Beatie in his album Members of the Parliaments of Tasmania. As with the majority of photographs in the Beattie album of parliamentarians, this one was touched up from an 1870s photograph, taken by an earlier (and unacknowledged) photographer.



Title: John Swan [the yr = younger]
In: In: Members of the Parliaments of Tasmania No. 114
Publisher: Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [19--]
ADRI: AUTAS001136191392
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

Maria Nairn
On the death of her husband in 1869, John Swan's sister Maria Nairn nee Swan leased an acre of land to Thomas Nevin's father, John Nevin, adjacent to Lady Franklin's Museum at Kangaroo Valley where he had built a cottage on land held by the Wesleyan Trustees. He taught evening class to adult males at the school house, shown as his occupancy in the Hobart Gazette notices. The Wesleyan Chapel was used for family weddings and funerals etc. John Nevin used the land leased from Maria Nairn to cultivate orchards and make fruit jams which he exported to the Victorian colony.



Property values, Hobart Town Gazette 26 November 1872.

• John Nevin, school house and dwelling, Kangaroo Valley, garden leased from Maria Nairn
• Maria Nairn, Cottage ornee and garden, Stephen St New Town
• Maria Nairn occupier, Executors of the late Mrs. Swan [snr], J.C and A. Swan, paddock, part of Beaulieu, New Town

This stereograph taken by Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1866 (verso has his usual New Town stamp) may be a view from the Swan family property, Beaulieu, looking across to the former Methodist church on New Town Road (at the junction of Pedder St). However, given the height at which it was taken, Nevin may have captured the scene from the tower of the large (pink-coloured) building now the Divisional Headquarters of the Salvation Army at 4 Bay Road New Town, called Brightside, which was the residence of another key figure in Thomas Nevin's life, Police Superintendent Richard Propsting of the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall.



Vista of New Town, Hobart, Tasmania looking east
Stereograph by Thomas J. Nevin, New Town ca. 1866 
Photos recto and verso copyright © KLW NFC Imprint 2014-2015
Taken at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 10 November 2014
TMAG Collection Ref: Q1994.56.28



Title: In the church yard at New Town [St John's Cemetery]
Publisher: Hobart : M. Allport, [1860]
ADRI: AUTAS001126252253
Source: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

This stereograph (below) of the tombstone of Stuart Jackson Dandridge who died of "low fever" aged 31 yrs, on 16 June, 1861, is unattributed and dated to ca. 1870. Dandridge  was a member of the Second Rifles, Southern Tasmanian Volunteers. In the distance on the right is the three storey house which was the residence in Davey St. until 1855 of Thomas Nevin's wife's uncle, Captain Edward Goldsmith.



Title:[St. David's Cemetery]
Publisher:[ca. 1870] [unattributed]
Description:1 stereoscopic pair of photographs : sepia toned ; 9 x 18 cm. (mount)
ADRI: AUTAS001125299511
Source: W.L. Crowther Library

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Our Nineteenth Anniversary 2005-2024

Nineteen years ago (and earlier, actually) we started blogging about nineteenth century Tasmanian photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923). We look forward to another year or so as the project draws closer to completion. Contributions and donations are most welcome, and many thanks for your involvement.



Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914)
Original by her husband Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1874
Photo copyright © KLW NFC Group KLW NFC Imprint ARR

The Generations
Below is a brief summary of generational levels of the immediate families of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and his wife Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day.

(a) GENERATION ONE: Dickson, Nevin, Pocock, Day and Goldsmith

Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875) and John Nevin snr (1808-1887) had four children, all born near Belfast, Ireland between 1842 and 1852, prior to arrival as free settlers at Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in July 1852. Mary Ann Dickson was the sister of rose grower Alexander Dickson, established at Newtonards, Ireland. John Nevin snr was a former soldier ( Royal Scots First Regiment), a journalist, poet and gardener.

Children of Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson and John Nevin snr

1. Thomas James (Thos) Nevin (1842-1923) m. Elizabeth Rachel Day (1847-1914)
2. Mary Ann Nevin (1844-1878) m. John Carr
3. Rebecca Jane Nevin (1847-1865)
4. William John (Jack) Nevin (1852-1891)

Children of Rachel Day nee Pocock (ca. 1812-1857) and Captain James Day (1806-1882). Rachel Day nee Pocock died of “consumption” at Hobart in 1857, and Captain James Day died in 1882 at the home of his younger daughter Mary Sophia Axup, Battery Point, Hobart. Photographer Thomas James Nevin married Elizabeth Rachel Day on 11th July, 1871 at Kangaroo Valley, Hobart.

1.Elizabeth Rachel (Lizza) Day (1847-1914) m. Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)
2. Mary Sophia Day (1853-1942) m. Hector Charles James Horatio Axup (1843-1927)

Children of Elizabeth Goldsmith nee Day (1802-1875), sister of Captain James Day, and Captain Edward Goldsmith (1804-1869). These were the Goldsmith cousins of the Day sisters, Elizabeth Rachel Day and Mary Sophia Day. Richard died in Hobart, 24 yrs old, in 1854 and Edward jnr died in Rochester (UK) in 1883.

1. Richard Sydney Goldsmith (1830-1854)
2. Edward Goldsmith jnr (1836-1883) m. Sarah Jane Rivers (1835-1926)

(a.1) GENERATION ONE extended: John Nevin’s second marriage: Genge and Chandler families

Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875), first wife of John Nevin snr (1808-1887) died in 1875. He married his second wife, widow Martha Genge (1833-1925) (formerly Salter), in 1879. There were no children born to Martha Genge and John Nevin, although they acted as step-grandparents to Minnie Carr (1878-1898) daughter of John Nevin’s daughter Mary Ann Carr nee Nevin (1844-1878) who died in Victoria within weeks of giving birth.

Mary Chandler nee Genge (1835-1923), sister of Martha Nevin nee Genge was the second wife of shoe maker William Chandler. Of the three children born in this marriage, the youngest, James Chandler (1877-1945), who would become a professional photographer, was Thomas J. Nevin’s successor to the vocation of photography within the extended family network.

(b) GENERATION TWO: Day, Nevin, and Axup

Mary Sophia Axup nee Day (1853-1942) and Hector Charles James Horatio Axup (1843-1927) had five children between 1878 and 1891.

Children of Mary Sophia Axup nee Day and Hector C. Axup
NB: These dates may not be totally accurate.

1. Rachel Frances Eva Axup (1878-1978) m. P. Baldwin
2. Sidney James Vernon Axup (1882-1975) m. Emily Tyson
3. Edward Harold Leslie Axup (1885-1964) m.
4. Patience Ella Mary Axup (1889-1913)
5. Olive Lilian Ethel Axup (1891- ? ) m. Charles Wilshire, 10 May 1920

Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day (1847-1914) and Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923) had seven children, six surviving to adulthood. Three sons – Sydney, William and George – were born at the Hobart Town Hall during their father’s residency as Office and Hall Keeper. Sydney died four months after birth.

Children of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day and Thomas J. Nevin:

1. Mary Florence Elizabeth (May) Nevin (1872-1955)
2. Thomas James (Sonny) Nevin (1874-1948) m. Gertrude Tennyson Bates (1883-1958)
3. Sydney John Nevin (1876-1877)
4. William John Nevin (1878-1927)
5. George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957)
6. Mary Ann (Minnie) Nevin (1884-1974) m. James Henry Alfred Drew (1878-1963)
7. Albert Edward Nevin (1888-1955) m. Emily Maud Davis (1891-1971)


Posts about Women in 19th century Tasmania, Australia

This thumbnail gallery and list (below) were generated from the TOC Table of Contents complete archive's category label "About Women" April 2024 (117 posts):


POSTS about women by URL descending:

Returned soldiers 1945: from the Nevin and Moran family albums 2024-04-25 About women, Descendant families, Family portraits, Group Portraits, Soldiers

Confusion for the press, 1879: was she/he/they a female or a male "impersonator"? 2024-03-01 About women, Clothing, Exhibitions and Publications

Christmas from our Archives 2023-12-25 19th century prison photography, About women, Biotica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Family portraits, Hobart Town Hall, Hotels, microphotography, Private Collections

First Mate James DAY on the "Panama" to California 1850-1852 2023-11-12 19th century photographers, About women, Biographica, Newspapers, Ships and Captains

Prisoner Charles J. GARFORTH said he would make Superintendent Adolarious H. BOYD pay dearly, 1875 2023-10-20 19th century prison photography, About women, Police Records, The Port Arthur Convicts Commission

"HOPE": John Nevin's poem on slavery 1863 and the U.S. Proclamation of Emancipation 2023-05-31 About women, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, Newspapers, Private Collections, Ships and Captains, Soldiers

Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith and the saltmarsh known as Lady's Tippett, 1870 2023-05-04 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendant families, Legal fraternity, Videos

Preview of new research 2023 2023-01-17 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendant families, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections, Ships and Captains

Indigenous elder Truganini and poet Ann Kearney, 1875 2022-07-11 Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Archives Office Tasmania, Exhibitions and Publications, Legal fraternity, Stereographs

Lost originals: the Nevin, Genge and Chandler family photographs 2021-11-28 About women, Biographica, Descendant families, Family portraits, Negative prints, Private Collections

NEVIN & SMITH, 1868: the client with white fingernails 2021-10-21 19th century photographers, About women, Diseases, Private Collections, Trademarks and stamps

Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL 2021-10-10 19th century photographers, About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Private Collections, Ships and Captains, Soldiers

Best of friends: Emma PITT and Liz O'MEAGHER 1866 2021-09-24 19th century photographers, About women, Group Portraits, Land grants, National Library of New Zealand

Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followed 2021-08-30 19th century photographers, Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Descendant families, Exhibitions and Publications, Group Portraits, Private Collections

Captain Goldsmith's "private friend" Edward Macdowell 1840s 2021-06-14 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Ships and Captains, Supreme Court Convictions

George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin's studio ca. 1872 2021-04-06 19th century photographers, About women, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections, Ships and Captains

Reproductions of Charles A. Woolley's portrait of Tasmanian Aborigines 1860s-1915 2021-03-21 19th century photographers, Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Mitchell Library SLNSW, Private Collections

Captain Hector Axup and the French lady of Green Island, 1888 2021-03-04 Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Biotica, Captain Hector Axup, Exhibitions and Publications, Ships and Captains

The case against Henry Stock (var. Stocks) 1884 for the murder of his wife and her child 2021-02-20 19th century prison photography, About women, Clothing, Hobart Gaol, Newspapers, Supreme Court Convictions

Clients posing with Thomas J. Nevin's big box stereoscopic viewer 2021-02-17 About women, Clothing, Stereographs, Trademarks and stamps, Videos

Prisoner Joseph WALMSLEY: a "queer-looking man" 1842-1891 2021-02-09 19th century prison photography, About women, Attribution Issues, Hobart Gaol, Supreme Court Convictions, TMAG

Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870s 2020-12-21 About women, Biographica, Clothing, Exhibitions and Publications, Music, Private Collections

John Nevin at inquest for James Thornton 1889 2020-10-10 About women, Biographica, Hobart Gaol, Hotels, Supreme Court Convictions, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Alfred Bock and the Bayles sisters 2020-09-30 19th century photographers, About women, Clothing, Private Collections

Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876 2020-09-08 About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections, Stereo graphs

Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900s 2020-08-24 About women, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Newspapers

Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860s 2020-08-10 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Sarah Crouch at Thomas J. Nevin's studio ca. 1872 2020-07-31 19th century photographers, About women, Biographica

James McEvoy's fine fabrics ex Captain Goldsmith's "Parrock Hall" Sydney 1845 2020-07-23 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Clothing, KLW NFC photography, Ships and Captains

T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks 2020-05-12 19th century prison photography, About women, Attribution Issues, Exhibitions and Publications, National Library of Australia, Private Collections

Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974) 2020-01-03 About women, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections

Rosanna Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin's studio 1870s 2019-11-07 About women, Biographica, Hotels, Land grants, Ships and Captains

Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876 2019-09-11 About women, Biographica, Clothing, Exhibitions and Publications, Group Portraits, Hotels, Stereographs

Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875 2019-07-29 19th century prison photography, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Hobart Gaol, Misattribution, Police Records, Soldiers, Supreme Court Convictions

Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870 - 1876 2019-06-26 19th century prison photography, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Misattribution, Police Records, Supreme Court Convictions

Prisoner William SAYER or SAWYER 1875 2019-06-21 19th century prison photography, About women, Supreme Court Convictions

Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870 2019-06-20 19th century photographers, Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Ships and Captains, Soldiers, Stereographs, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the "Angelina" 1844-46 2019-04-24 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, National Archives UK, National Library of New Zealand, Ships and Captains

A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the "City of Hobart" 1872 2019-03-11 Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Biotica, Group Portraits, Private Collections, Stereographs

Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDL 2018-12-09 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Land grants, Ships and Captains

Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922 2018-06-21 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendants and In-Laws, Hotels, National Archives UK

John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documents 2018-04-30 About women, Biographica, National Archives UK, Ships and Captains, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851 2018-02-12 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Exhibitions and Publications, Library of Congress

The Will of Richard Goldsmith snr (1769-1839) 2018-01-31 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Hotels, National Archives UK, Ships and Captains

Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day 2017-11-14 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendants and In-Laws, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections

Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin's cohort 2017-09-14 19th century photographers, About women, Private Collections, Stereographs, Trademarks and stamps

Amy Bock's bid for marriage equality in 1909 in New Zealand 2017-09-06 19th century photographers, About women, Clothing, Hotels, National Library of New Zealand, Newspapers, Police Records

One session, two poses at the City Photographic Establishment 2017-08-15 19th century photographers, About women, Private Collections, TMAG

Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882 2017-03-10 19th century photographers, About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Stereographs, Trademarks and stamps

Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates 2017-02-15 About women, Biographica, Clothing, Descendants and In-Laws, Newspapers, Private Collections, Ships and Captains, Soldiers

Captain Goldsmith & death at sea of Antarctic circumnavigator Captain John Biscoe 1843 2016-05-27 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Ships and Captains, Videos

The desecration of Minnie Carr's grave 1898 2016-05-20 About women, Biographica, National Gallery of Victoria, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Woman with pink ribbons by Thomas Nevin 1870s 2016-05-20 About women, Clothing, National Gallery of Victoria, Negative prints, TMAG, Trademarks and stamps

Captain Edward Goldsmith, the diarist Annie Baxter and a burial at sea 1848 2016-05-12 19th century photographers, About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Ships and Captains, Videos

Captain & Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith: Rattler's maiden voyage 1846 2016-04-21 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Clothing, Exhibitions and Publications, National Library of New Zealand, Ships and Captains, Soldiers

Captain Goldsmith, the Parrock Hall and playwright David Burn, Sydney 1844 2016-04-08 About women, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Exhibitions and Publications, Mitchell Library SLNSW, Ships and Captains

Captain Edward Goldsmith's grave at Chalk Church, Kent UK 2016-04-05 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections, Ships and Captains

Thomas Nevin and Frederick Stops, right-hand man to the A-G 2015-09-26 19th century prison photography, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, QVMAG, TMAG

With Jean Porthouse GRAVES 1870s West Hobart 2015-09-03 Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Newspapers, Private Collections, Stereographs, TMAG

Elizabeth Bayley at Runnymede, New Town 1874-1875 2015-08-15 About women, Biographica, Ships and Captains, TMAG

Elwick House and Elwick Bay 2015-07-15 19th century photographers, About women, KLW NFC photography, Stereographs, TMAG, Trademarks and stamps

Calling the shots in colour 1864-1879 2015-04-20 19th century photographers, 19th century prison photography, Aboriginal Tasmania, About women, Attribution Issues, Exhibitions and Publications, Mitchell Library SLNSW, National Gallery of Australia

Portraits of older women by Thomas Nevin 1870s 2015-01-31 About women, Clothing, Private Collections, State Library Victoria, TMAG

Thomas Nevin's women clients and their dresses 1870s 2015-01-26 About women, Clothing, KLW NFC photography, Private Collections, TMAG

Our Fourteenth Anniversary 2005-2019 2015-01-17 About women, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

The firm of Nevin & Smith stamps and label 1867-1868 2015-01-11 19th century photographers, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Stereographs, TMAG, Trademarks and stamps

The concertina player 1860s 2014-12-28 About women, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Stereographs, TMAG, Videos

Thomas Nevin, informant for surveyor John Hurst 1868 2014-10-26 About women, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, Kangaroo Valley Hobart

A few drinks on Christmas Eve 1885 at New Town 2014-10-23 About women, Biographica, Hotels, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Police Records, Supreme Court men

Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio to 1888 2014-10-18 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, TMAG

Captain Goldsmith dines with the Franklins at Govt House 2014-08-11 About women, Biotica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, KLW NFC photography, Ships and Captains

Prisoner Henry SINGLETON aka Harry the Tinker who pinches books 2014-04-20 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, National Library of Australia, Newspapers, Police Records, QVMAG

Miss Nevin and Morton Allport 2014-04-16 About women, Biographica, Biotica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Carnal knowledge of children: convictions 1860s-1880s 2014-04-15 19th century prison photography, About women, Police Records, QVMAG, Supreme Court Convictions

"Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866 2013-07-18 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Soldiers, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, University of Melbourne

Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe 2013-05-17 About women, Biographica, Biotica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections, Ships and Captains, Videos

Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830 2013-04-25 About women, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Descendants and In-Laws, Exhibitions and Publications, Ships and Captains

One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865 2013-04-19 About women, Biographica, Newspapers, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913 2013-03-10 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections

Captain Edward Goldsmith and the McGregor family 2013-03-06 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, Biographica, Captain Edward Goldsmith, Newspapers, Ships and Captains, Stereographs

John Nevin snr and the Genge family 2012-10-19 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Mitchell Library SLNSW, Private Collections, Soldiers, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet 2012-06-08 About women, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Stereographs, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

A highly coloured portrait 2012-06-01 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

The Photographer's wife at the studio 2010-08-03 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Stereographs, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, TMAG

Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010 2010-05-12 About women, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, Videos

The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881 2010-02-18 About women, Biographica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Police Records, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868 2009-09-01 About women, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Mitchell Library SLNSW, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr 2009-08-27 About women, Biographica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

The firm of Nevin & Smith 2009-02-14 19th century photographers, About women, Newspapers, Private Collections, State Library Victoria, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, TMAG

Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley 2009-02-06 About women, Biographica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Thomas Nevin's portraits of his wife Elizabeth Rachel 2009-01-29 About women, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Prisoners Henry SINGLETON, Richard PINCHES, and Robert BEW 2009-01-19 About women, Archives Office Tasmania, National Library of Australia, Police Records, QVMAG, Supreme Court Convictions, Supreme Court men

The Nevin group portrait and wedding photo 1871 2009-01-06 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

The Medical Officer's report of the Fairlie passengers 1852 2008-11-07 About women, Biographica, National Archives UK, Ships and Captains

Site Map No.1: Nevin Family 2008-10-05 About women, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Ships and Captains, Site maps, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852 2008-08-14 19th century prison photography, About women, Biographica, National Archives UK, Ships and Captains, Soldiers, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Prisoner poses: women, children and ticket-of-leave men 2008-07-16 About women, Archives Office Tasmania, Attribution Issues, Cascades, Misattribution

Thomas Nevin and Robert Smith 1865-1868 2008-04-21 19th century photographers, About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Private Collections, Stereographs, TMAG

Elizabeth Nevin's souvenir cruet of the Model Prison 2007-11-28 About women, Misattribution, Private Collections

Sonny Nevin's American journey with the Bates family 2007-11-22 About women, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections, Ships and Captains

First- born child May Nevin and her China trade soapstone vase 2007-11-22 About women, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections, Ships and Captains

Nevin & Smith tinted vignette of Elizabeth Rachel Day 1868 2007-11-07 19th century photographers, About women, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, Trademarks and stamps

Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children 2007-09-22 About women, Biographica, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Key dates in Thomas Nevin's life 2007-08-16 About women, Biographica, Hobart Town Hall, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868 2007-07-25 About women, Attribution Issues, Biographica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, TMAG

Rocking Stone Parties on kunanyi/Mount Wellington 2007-06-25 About women, Exhibitions and Publications, Group Portraits, Stereographs, TMAG

G.T. Stilwell's letter to Mrs Shelverton 1977 2007-06-14 About women, Archives State Library Tasmania, Biographica, Exhibitions and Publications, QVMAG

Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin 2007-06-09 About women, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

John Nevin's marriages to Mary Ann Dickson and Martha Genge 2007-06-09 About women, Biographica, Descendants and In-Laws, Private Collections, Soldiers, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits, Videos

An early carte of Elizabeth Rachel Day 2007-04-14 About women, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871 2007-04-13 About women, Biographica, Kangaroo Valley Hobart, Private Collections, Thomas Nevin's Family Portraits

Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St. 1867-1868 2007-04-09 19th century photographers, About women, Archives


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