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Preview of 2009: a selection from Nevin family collections
With the passing of Eva Morris nee Nevin (1917-2008), grand daughter of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day, we include a selection from her private collection of family photographs. Please respect copyright.
Eva Morris nee Nevin ca. 1938
Eva Morris nee Nevin (1917-2008) granddaughter of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and & Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day, daughter of their youngest son Albert and his wife Emily Nevin nee Davis. Taken in 1938 while boarding the Zealandia to Sydney from Hobart. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Photographer Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1865-8
Self-portrait of photographer Thomas James Nevin ca. 1865-8 holding a stereoscopic viewer and wearing white gloves. Taken at his studio, The City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town. Watermarked. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Elizabeth Rachel Day ca. 1868
Portrait of Elizabeth Rachel Day ca. 1868, fiancee of Thomas J. Nevin. They married at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley (Lenah Valley, near Hobart, Tasmania) in 1871. This carte-de-visite was taken by Thomas J. Nevin while in partnership with Robert Smith, operating as the firm Nevin & Smith. The verso carries their studio stamp. Watermarked. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
The Nevin and Axup families ca. 1938
Thomas and Elizabeth Rachel Nevin's adult daughters Minnie Nevin (b. 1884, extreme left) and May Nevin (b. 1872 extreme right) were photographed with their aunt, Elizabeth's sister, Mary Sophia Axup nee Day (second from left) and her adult daughter Eva Baldwin (second from right), their cousin.
From left to right:
Thomas & Elizabeth Nevin's daughter Mary Ann Nevin, known as Minnie Nevin
Thomas Nevin's sister-in-law Mary Sophia Axup nee Day, sister of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day
Mary Sophia Axup's daughter Eva Baldwin nee Axup,
Thomas and Elizabeth's Nevin's daughter Mary Florence Elizabeth Nevin, known as May Nevin.
Taken at a railway station ca. 1938. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Sergeant Tom Nevin jnr aka "Sonny" mid 1940s
Thomas James Nevin jnr, first born son (1874-1948) of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin, was known as "Sonny" to the family. He married Gertrude Tennyson Bates in 1907, of the Bates, Cetnar and Laughlin families, USA. He was photographed here as Sergeant Tom Nevin of the Salvation Army in his uniform a few years before his death in 1948. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Eva Morris nee Nevin ca. 1938
Eva Morris nee Nevin (1917-2008) granddaughter of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and & Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day, daughter of their youngest son Albert and his wife Emily Nevin nee Davis. Taken in 1938 while boarding the Zealandia to Sydney from Hobart. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Photographer Thomas J. Nevin ca. 1865-8
Self-portrait of photographer Thomas James Nevin ca. 1865-8 holding a stereoscopic viewer and wearing white gloves. Taken at his studio, The City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town. Watermarked. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Elizabeth Rachel Day ca. 1868
Portrait of Elizabeth Rachel Day ca. 1868, fiancee of Thomas J. Nevin. They married at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley (Lenah Valley, near Hobart, Tasmania) in 1871. This carte-de-visite was taken by Thomas J. Nevin while in partnership with Robert Smith, operating as the firm Nevin & Smith. The verso carries their studio stamp. Watermarked. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
The Nevin and Axup families ca. 1938
Thomas and Elizabeth Rachel Nevin's adult daughters Minnie Nevin (b. 1884, extreme left) and May Nevin (b. 1872 extreme right) were photographed with their aunt, Elizabeth's sister, Mary Sophia Axup nee Day (second from left) and her adult daughter Eva Baldwin (second from right), their cousin.
From left to right:
Thomas & Elizabeth Nevin's daughter Mary Ann Nevin, known as Minnie Nevin
Thomas Nevin's sister-in-law Mary Sophia Axup nee Day, sister of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day
Mary Sophia Axup's daughter Eva Baldwin nee Axup,
Thomas and Elizabeth's Nevin's daughter Mary Florence Elizabeth Nevin, known as May Nevin.
Taken at a railway station ca. 1938. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
Sergeant Tom Nevin jnr aka "Sonny" mid 1940s
Thomas James Nevin jnr, first born son (1874-1948) of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin, was known as "Sonny" to the family. He married Gertrude Tennyson Bates in 1907, of the Bates, Cetnar and Laughlin families, USA. He was photographed here as Sergeant Tom Nevin of the Salvation Army in his uniform a few years before his death in 1948. Copyright © KLW NFC Private Collection 2009 ARR.
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Convict photographs (cartes-de-visite) by Thomas J. Nevin 1870s at the new NPG Canberra
EXHIBITION, Tasmanian mugshots 1870s, NPG 2008
MISATTRIBUTION and the National Library of Australia
The new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, opened to the public on December 4, 2008.
Case captures courtesy of NPG staff.
Exclusive copyright remains with © KLW NFC 2008
Currently displayed in the A and S Liangis Gallery are six identification carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian "convicts" - the term is used in 20th century tourism discourse even though the police gazettes by the 1870s in Tasmania only ever used the term "prisoners". The six cdv's were borrowed from the National Library of Australia with the correct attribution to the commercial and police photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) , and incorrect attribution to A. H. Boyd who was not a photographer, was not known as a photographer in his lifetime, and has no extant works surviving in any public or private collection.
The A. H. Boyd misattribution derives from an error made by one photo-historian in the 1980s (Chris Long, 1995) which arose from (legally inadmissable) hearsay about cameras at Port Arthur as told in a children's fictional story by Boyd's niece E.M. Hall (typescript 1942, State Library of Tasmania). This piece of children's fiction mentions neither Boyd by name nor the photographing of prisoners, and it certainly makes no mention of a darkroom at the Port Arthur prison. A. H. Boyd was little more than a corrupt accountant promoted to commandant (1871-1873) of the Port Arthur prison through nepotism: his brother-in-law was the Attorney General W. R. Giblin.
The misattribution betrays the aesthetic assumptions and art history backgrounds of its apologists: the photographs are catalogued at the NLA as "portraits" when they are in fact vernacular documents, viz. police mugshots. The art historian aesthetic has a normative expectation that these police photographs can be treated as art photography and should therefore bear the photographers' studio stamp in line with the common commercially sold cartes-de-visite of the period. The absence of a studio stamp, according to this line of thinking, abjects Nevin, a commercial photographer. However, police photographs are rarely if ever accredited except when a commercial photographer was involved, as was the case with T. J. Nevin. Only one trade sample in every batch of 100 prisoner photographs was stamped while Nevin worked under tender (1871-1876) as a commercial photographer contracted to special duties at the Hobart Gaol, and once he joined the civil service (1876-1886) working for the Hobart City Corporation at the Town Hall where the central registry of prisoner photographs and records was compiled by the Municipal Police Office, no studio stamp was necessary. The photographer's studio stamp was used for registration of joint copyright with the Municipal Police Office and Customs during the years 1871-1876. It was printed by James Barnard, the government printer, to include Nevin's details encircling the government Royal Arms insignia.
The National Library of Australia originally archived and catalogued their collection of 78 prisoner mugshots [84 are now held] of Tasmanian "convicts" from the 1980s to May 2007 with sole attribution to Thomas J. Nevin based on factual evidence from the Archives Office of Tasmania, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery exhibition of 1977, and private collections. No factual evidence of any kind exists in the official documents of the period that associates A. H. Boyd with the skills or mandate to personally photograph prisoners. No evidence has been mustered or published to support the NLA's catalogue inclusion since May 2007 for a photographer attribution to the accountant A.H. Boyd. No creditable commentator would wish to be associated with such a naive idea.
Thomas Nevin and his brother Constable John Nevin are the only photographers known to have worked on contract and in civil service in prisons from the early 1870s to the mid-1880s. The majority of the 300 or so mugshots now held in public collections are estrays of a much larger corpus, now lost or destroyed. They were taken at the Supreme Court and adjoining Hobart Gaol, either when the prisoner, a second or habitual offender, was sent to trial and sentenced, and BEFORE the prisoner was returned to the Port Arthur prison to serve the sentence, if that was his fate. However, from 1872, those few prisoners remaining at Port Arthur were returned to the Hobart Gaol in a steady stream, and by 1874 most of the criminal class of offender had been transferred to Hobart where Nevin photographed him if he had been sent to trial in the 1860s. The prisoner was also photographed on being received from regional lock-ups including trials at the Supreme Court Launceston if sentenced for a period of more than three months, and photographed once more before he was discharged on a ticket-of-leave, or even before his execution.
The individuals most anxious to see the name of A.H. Boyd perpetuated in venues such as the new National Portrait Gallery are photo-historians like Helen Ennis, Warwick Reeder, and Isobel Crombie, who assumed Chris Long's "hypothesis" had some basis in fact and have committed it to print. And then there are the bandwagonners and brawlers, the heritage "interpreters" in the business of promoting penal tourism such as the cravenly dishonest Julia Clark at the Port Arthur Historic Site.
THE SIX PRISONER MUGSHOTS
Case captures courtesy of NPG staff.
Exclusive copyright remains with © KLW NFC 2008 ARR.
The six cartes-de-visite mugshots are displayed in this order. They were sourced here from the National Library of Australia with the inclusion of the incorrect NLA catalogue information below each photograph.
NOTE BENE: none of these photographs was taken in 1874 at Port Arthur by A.H. Boyd. All of these photographs were taken by government contractor, commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin at the Supreme Court, Hobart Gaol and Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall between 1872 and 1884. Hayes and Appleby were photographed in the early 1870s by Thomas Nevin; the photograph of Ormiston with a moustache was taken in 1876; Sutherland, Morrison and the later Ormiston minus moustache were photographed in the mid 1880s by Thomas Nevin with the assistance of his brother Constable John Nevin at the Hobart Gaol, Campbell St. .
Top left:
"nla.pic-vn4416519 PIC P1029/75A LOC Album 935
William Hayes, per Asia, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]. 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Top right:
"nla.pic-vn4270331 PIC P1029/51 LOC Album 935
John Appleby, per Candahar, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Centre left:
"nla.pic-vn4270311 PIC P1029/43 LOC Album 935
Sutherland, 29.5.83 [picture] 1883. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture"
Centre right:
"nla.pic-an24612677 PIC P1029/60 LOC Album 935
John Morrison, native, 12 months, age 19 [picture] [ca. 1884] 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.7 x 5.6 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Lower left:
"nla.pic-an24612704 PIC P1029/65 LOC Album 935
George Ormiston, [per] F.C. Monqund, 3 years, 5.2.84, horse stealing and uttering [picture] 1884. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 10.0 x 5.7 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Lower right:
"nla.pic-vn4270377 PIC P1029/66 LOC Album 935
George Ormiston, [per] F.C. Monqund, 3 years, 5.2.84, horse stealing and uttering [picture] 1884. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874."
The card caption accompanying these cartes displayed at the new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, reads as follows:
The writer of this caption at the NPG recites the idea common to the late 20th century belief that these photographs were produced to cater to public and scientific interests in eugenics, anthropometry and other late 19th century uses of images of freaks, criminals and the indigenous. Apart from this misconception, the card contains several factual inaccuracies:
1. None of these prisoners was ever sent BACK to Port Arthur, and none was there in 1874. The dates on the versos of some of these cartes are 1883 and 1884, yet Port Arthur was well and truly closed by 1877. Some are photographs of young "native" or locally-born who had not offended prior to incarceration. The assumption that these photographs were taken at Port Arthur in 1874 derives from an archivist's inscription - "Taken at Port Arthur, 1874" - on the verso of dozens of these cartes due largely to John Watt Beattie's commercial imperative to sell them as tourist tokens once he salvaged them from the Sheriff's Office at the Hobart Gaol ca. 1915. Some are also his reprints dating from 1910s of T. J. Nevin's glass negatives. All of these prisoner photographs were taken at the Supreme Court and Hobart Gaol by the Nevin brothers from 1872 to the late1880s.
2. Newspaper accounts and parliamentary proceedings of the day clearly state why the prisoners were photographed, when, where and by whom. The practice of making several duplicates of a prisoner's photograph was established in accordance with penal and police reforms adopted in NSW and Victoria by 1873 to ensure that the regional police authorities also had a record while the prisoner was on release with a ticket-of-leave work permit.
3. The 83 cartes held at the NLA are not the only extant mugshots of their type taken by Thomas Nevin. More than 300 originals and copies survive in public and private collections, e.g. the Archives Office of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, the State Library of Tasmania, the Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, and the Mitchell Library, NSW, and several bear Nevin's Royal Arms colonial warrant studio stamp. Included amongst these examples held at the NLA are government archival estrays from the Gunson Collection, donated in the 1960s.The majority held in all public collections, with the exception of the eleven prisoner cartes at the Mitchell Library NSW, were extensively copied from the QVMAG collection in 1958, 1977, 1982, 1983- 1985 and 1987, and circulated to other State and national collections
4. Frazer Crawford in South Australia, and Charles Nettleton in Victoria, took photographs of prisoners earlier than 1870. Tasmania followed in the early 1870s.
For original documentation of this convict's offenses, see the digitised record of the Candahar 1842 lists of transportees at the Archives Office of Tasmania: Appleby's record is shown below. For police records of his criminal career dating from 1871, see the record below and the police gazettes.
John Appleby per Candahar
Archives Office of Tasmania
Link: https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1369258
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1875,
James Barnard Gov't Printer
John Appleby was tried in the Supreme Court Hobart on 4th July, 1871 for receiving stolen plate, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment at the Hobart Gaol. In 1841 he was a 15 year old sentenced for burglary, arriving in Hobart in 1842. In 1871 he would have been 45 years old on sentencing at the Supreme Court and the Hobart Gaol, and 49 years old when he was photographed on discharge, March 4, 1875 for future police reference. This photograph is held at the NLA, numbered "84" on verso by a copyist in the early 1900s.
RELATED POSTS main weblog
For more information on the Boyd misattribution:
MISATTRIBUTION and the National Library of Australia
The new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, opened to the public on December 4, 2008.
Case captures courtesy of NPG staff.
Exclusive copyright remains with © KLW NFC 2008
Currently displayed in the A and S Liangis Gallery are six identification carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian "convicts" - the term is used in 20th century tourism discourse even though the police gazettes by the 1870s in Tasmania only ever used the term "prisoners". The six cdv's were borrowed from the National Library of Australia with the correct attribution to the commercial and police photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) , and incorrect attribution to A. H. Boyd who was not a photographer, was not known as a photographer in his lifetime, and has no extant works surviving in any public or private collection.
The A. H. Boyd misattribution derives from an error made by one photo-historian in the 1980s (Chris Long, 1995) which arose from (legally inadmissable) hearsay about cameras at Port Arthur as told in a children's fictional story by Boyd's niece E.M. Hall (typescript 1942, State Library of Tasmania). This piece of children's fiction mentions neither Boyd by name nor the photographing of prisoners, and it certainly makes no mention of a darkroom at the Port Arthur prison. A. H. Boyd was little more than a corrupt accountant promoted to commandant (1871-1873) of the Port Arthur prison through nepotism: his brother-in-law was the Attorney General W. R. Giblin.
The misattribution betrays the aesthetic assumptions and art history backgrounds of its apologists: the photographs are catalogued at the NLA as "portraits" when they are in fact vernacular documents, viz. police mugshots. The art historian aesthetic has a normative expectation that these police photographs can be treated as art photography and should therefore bear the photographers' studio stamp in line with the common commercially sold cartes-de-visite of the period. The absence of a studio stamp, according to this line of thinking, abjects Nevin, a commercial photographer. However, police photographs are rarely if ever accredited except when a commercial photographer was involved, as was the case with T. J. Nevin. Only one trade sample in every batch of 100 prisoner photographs was stamped while Nevin worked under tender (1871-1876) as a commercial photographer contracted to special duties at the Hobart Gaol, and once he joined the civil service (1876-1886) working for the Hobart City Corporation at the Town Hall where the central registry of prisoner photographs and records was compiled by the Municipal Police Office, no studio stamp was necessary. The photographer's studio stamp was used for registration of joint copyright with the Municipal Police Office and Customs during the years 1871-1876. It was printed by James Barnard, the government printer, to include Nevin's details encircling the government Royal Arms insignia.
The National Library of Australia originally archived and catalogued their collection of 78 prisoner mugshots [84 are now held] of Tasmanian "convicts" from the 1980s to May 2007 with sole attribution to Thomas J. Nevin based on factual evidence from the Archives Office of Tasmania, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery exhibition of 1977, and private collections. No factual evidence of any kind exists in the official documents of the period that associates A. H. Boyd with the skills or mandate to personally photograph prisoners. No evidence has been mustered or published to support the NLA's catalogue inclusion since May 2007 for a photographer attribution to the accountant A.H. Boyd. No creditable commentator would wish to be associated with such a naive idea.
Thomas Nevin and his brother Constable John Nevin are the only photographers known to have worked on contract and in civil service in prisons from the early 1870s to the mid-1880s. The majority of the 300 or so mugshots now held in public collections are estrays of a much larger corpus, now lost or destroyed. They were taken at the Supreme Court and adjoining Hobart Gaol, either when the prisoner, a second or habitual offender, was sent to trial and sentenced, and BEFORE the prisoner was returned to the Port Arthur prison to serve the sentence, if that was his fate. However, from 1872, those few prisoners remaining at Port Arthur were returned to the Hobart Gaol in a steady stream, and by 1874 most of the criminal class of offender had been transferred to Hobart where Nevin photographed him if he had been sent to trial in the 1860s. The prisoner was also photographed on being received from regional lock-ups including trials at the Supreme Court Launceston if sentenced for a period of more than three months, and photographed once more before he was discharged on a ticket-of-leave, or even before his execution.
The individuals most anxious to see the name of A.H. Boyd perpetuated in venues such as the new National Portrait Gallery are photo-historians like Helen Ennis, Warwick Reeder, and Isobel Crombie, who assumed Chris Long's "hypothesis" had some basis in fact and have committed it to print. And then there are the bandwagonners and brawlers, the heritage "interpreters" in the business of promoting penal tourism such as the cravenly dishonest Julia Clark at the Port Arthur Historic Site.
THE SIX PRISONER MUGSHOTS
Case captures courtesy of NPG staff.
Exclusive copyright remains with © KLW NFC 2008 ARR.
The six cartes-de-visite mugshots are displayed in this order. They were sourced here from the National Library of Australia with the inclusion of the incorrect NLA catalogue information below each photograph.
NOTE BENE: none of these photographs was taken in 1874 at Port Arthur by A.H. Boyd. All of these photographs were taken by government contractor, commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin at the Supreme Court, Hobart Gaol and Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall between 1872 and 1884. Hayes and Appleby were photographed in the early 1870s by Thomas Nevin; the photograph of Ormiston with a moustache was taken in 1876; Sutherland, Morrison and the later Ormiston minus moustache were photographed in the mid 1880s by Thomas Nevin with the assistance of his brother Constable John Nevin at the Hobart Gaol, Campbell St. .
Top left:
"nla.pic-vn4416519 PIC P1029/75A LOC Album 935
William Hayes, per Asia, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]. 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Top right:
"nla.pic-vn4270331 PIC P1029/51 LOC Album 935
John Appleby, per Candahar, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Centre left:
"nla.pic-vn4270311 PIC P1029/43 LOC Album 935
Sutherland, 29.5.83 [picture] 1883. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture"
Centre right:
"nla.pic-an24612677 PIC P1029/60 LOC Album 935
John Morrison, native, 12 months, age 19 [picture] [ca. 1884] 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.7 x 5.6 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Lower left:
"nla.pic-an24612704 PIC P1029/65 LOC Album 935
George Ormiston, [per] F.C. Monqund, 3 years, 5.2.84, horse stealing and uttering [picture] 1884. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 10.0 x 5.7 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]"
Lower right:
"nla.pic-vn4270377 PIC P1029/66 LOC Album 935
George Ormiston, [per] F.C. Monqund, 3 years, 5.2.84, horse stealing and uttering [picture] 1884. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm., on mount 10.4 x 6.4 cm. Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874."
The card caption accompanying these cartes displayed at the new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, reads as follows:
Convict Portraits, Port Arthur 1874 attributed to Thomas Nevin (1842-1923) and Aldolarius [sic] Boyd (1829-1891) albumen silver carte de visite photographs on loan from Pictures Collections National Library of AustraliaFive convicts are named on the caption card: the sixth, lower right, is also supposed to be the same man as the fifth one lower left - George Ormiston. The National Library gives totally incorrect identical personal information for both images.
William Hayes, John Appleby, Sutherland, John Morrison and George Ormiston were all prisoners during the later years of its operation when it was decided to document its inmates photographically. The photographs are the only known official convict portraits and are among the earliest examples of photography's use in prison record-keeping.
The writer of this caption at the NPG recites the idea common to the late 20th century belief that these photographs were produced to cater to public and scientific interests in eugenics, anthropometry and other late 19th century uses of images of freaks, criminals and the indigenous. Apart from this misconception, the card contains several factual inaccuracies:
1. None of these prisoners was ever sent BACK to Port Arthur, and none was there in 1874. The dates on the versos of some of these cartes are 1883 and 1884, yet Port Arthur was well and truly closed by 1877. Some are photographs of young "native" or locally-born who had not offended prior to incarceration. The assumption that these photographs were taken at Port Arthur in 1874 derives from an archivist's inscription - "Taken at Port Arthur, 1874" - on the verso of dozens of these cartes due largely to John Watt Beattie's commercial imperative to sell them as tourist tokens once he salvaged them from the Sheriff's Office at the Hobart Gaol ca. 1915. Some are also his reprints dating from 1910s of T. J. Nevin's glass negatives. All of these prisoner photographs were taken at the Supreme Court and Hobart Gaol by the Nevin brothers from 1872 to the late1880s.
2. Newspaper accounts and parliamentary proceedings of the day clearly state why the prisoners were photographed, when, where and by whom. The practice of making several duplicates of a prisoner's photograph was established in accordance with penal and police reforms adopted in NSW and Victoria by 1873 to ensure that the regional police authorities also had a record while the prisoner was on release with a ticket-of-leave work permit.
3. The 83 cartes held at the NLA are not the only extant mugshots of their type taken by Thomas Nevin. More than 300 originals and copies survive in public and private collections, e.g. the Archives Office of Tasmania, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, the State Library of Tasmania, the Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, and the Mitchell Library, NSW, and several bear Nevin's Royal Arms colonial warrant studio stamp. Included amongst these examples held at the NLA are government archival estrays from the Gunson Collection, donated in the 1960s.The majority held in all public collections, with the exception of the eleven prisoner cartes at the Mitchell Library NSW, were extensively copied from the QVMAG collection in 1958, 1977, 1982, 1983- 1985 and 1987, and circulated to other State and national collections
4. Frazer Crawford in South Australia, and Charles Nettleton in Victoria, took photographs of prisoners earlier than 1870. Tasmania followed in the early 1870s.
For original documentation of this convict's offenses, see the digitised record of the Candahar 1842 lists of transportees at the Archives Office of Tasmania: Appleby's record is shown below. For police records of his criminal career dating from 1871, see the record below and the police gazettes.
John Appleby per Candahar
Archives Office of Tasmania
Link: https://stors.tas.gov.au/NI/1369258
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1875,
James Barnard Gov't Printer
John Appleby was tried in the Supreme Court Hobart on 4th July, 1871 for receiving stolen plate, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment at the Hobart Gaol. In 1841 he was a 15 year old sentenced for burglary, arriving in Hobart in 1842. In 1871 he would have been 45 years old on sentencing at the Supreme Court and the Hobart Gaol, and 49 years old when he was photographed on discharge, March 4, 1875 for future police reference. This photograph is held at the NLA, numbered "84" on verso by a copyist in the early 1900s.
RELATED POSTS main weblog
For more information on the Boyd misattribution:
- Anne-Marie Willis and Richard Neville on the A.H. Boyd misattribution
- The QVMAG, Chris Long and the A.H. Boyd misattribution
- Isobel Crombie and Helen Ennis: how misattribution can persist
- Two histories, two inscriptions (TMAG 1995)
- Execution of Sutherland and Ogden
- T. J. Nevin's convict portraits at the National Library of Australia
- Professor Joan Kerr (DAA ed. 1992)
- Prison photographers Nevin, Nettleton & Crawford
- Prisoner portraits taken before release: examples by Nettleton and Nevin
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The Port Arthur Convicts Commission
First published on
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
Babette Smith on Australia's Birthstain
pp304-5 Click on images for readable version
These two prisoners were not incarcerated at Port Arthur in 1874 when they were photographed. They were both discharged from the Hobart Gaol on the same day, January 7th, 1874 and were photographed by Thomas J. Nevin during the preceding fortnight up to 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:
Fleming convicted July 1874
Fleming absconded on August 4th, 1874, etc etc etc
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1875
The source of these two identification cartes included in Babette Smith's book on the legacy of the convict era is the Archives Office of Tasmania.
page 42
However, Babette Smith's caption for these two photographs - "... at Port Arthur, ca. 1874" is misleading. She omits the Tasmanian State Archives' online catalogue wording "Taken at Port Arthur by Thomas Nevin 1874".
The sources of the Archives Office information, photograph originals and copies were -
1. the materials donated from the Port Arthur kiosk (see extract above for details),
2. the collections of photographs taken by Nevin donated by the Allport Law firm as the Pretyman Collection,
3. the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, where many more prisoner cartes were located amongst the Beattie Collection's convict memorabilia, and exhibited there in 1977.
Most of the AOT's convict carte collection by Thomas Nevin is now also catalogued at the State Library of Tasmania, indicating provenance from the Pretyman Collection dating from the 1900-1930s. See also Miscellaneous Collection of Photographs - 1900 - 1920 (PH30)
An original carte by Nevin ca 1874 of the Attorney-General W.R. Giblin who commissioned Nevin as prisons photographer was also originally an item in the Pretyman Collection at the AOT.
W.R. Giblin - AOT Ref: NS1013-1971c
Taken by Thomas Nevin ca 1872-1874
See also the Archives Office of Tasmania digitised records of the original registers of convict names for each ship.
AOT REF: CON14-1-14_00001_L
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First published on
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Friday, November 07, 2008
The Medical Officer's report of the Fairlie passengers 1852
The Voyage Out
The barque Fairlie, 775 tons, two guns, was a convict transport built in Calcutta. The ship departed Plymouth on March 11, 1852 with 45 crew and arrived at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) on July 3, 1852. On board were 292 male convicts and 30 pensioner guards with families. There were 24 women and 47 children also on board. In charge of the convict guard was Ensign Meagher for the 99th Regiment. Surgeon Edwarth Nolloth RN voyaged in the Cabin as did the religious instructor John B. Seaman and his wife.
The ship's cargo included 1 bag of despatches, 2 ropes, 8 leather bags, 1 ship bag and 1 small paper parcel. When the Fairlie sailed into the River Derwent at Hobart, the pilot Mr Hurburgh boarded at 4pm, and reported the weather was fine, winds light, and the ship's draught was 18 feet.
The Port Officer's Form carried the REMARKS:
2 Deaths Convicts - 1 Birth - Female
And this note:
"The Pest Bomangee" was to leave [?] in about 3 weeks after this vessel sailed
"The Sylph". Sailed from Plymouth three days before.
Port Officer's log, Fairlie 3 July 1852
Source: State Library of Tasmania
Series Number MB2/39
Title: REPORTS OF SHIPS' ARRIVALS WITH LISTS OF PASSENGERS
Nevin family members on the Sick Lists
Thomas James Nevin's father, John Nevin snr, born in 1808 at Grey Abbey, County Down, Ireland, with service in the West Indies (1825-1838) and Canada (1839-1842), was one of 30 pensioner guards travelling with the 99th Regiment on board the Fairlie when it left Plymouth. Thomas' mother Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson 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. Among the convicts were 32 boys from the Parkhurst prison who had embarked at the Isle of Wight.
Reference: ADM 101/27/2
Medical journal of convict ship Fairlie .
Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals Convict Ships etc. Date: 1852. Source: The Catalogue of The National Archives [UK]
Folio 2: John Nevin, aged 43, Private of pensioners; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 28 February 1852, discharged 2 March 1852 to duty. Folio 2: Mary Nevin, aged 40, Wife of pensioners;
Folio 2: Mary Nevin, aged 40, Wife of pensioners; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 14 March 1852, discharged 25 March 1852 to duty.
Folio 4: Mary Nevin, aged 5, Child of Guard; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 23 April 1852, discharged 30 April 1852 to duty. Folio 4: Mary Nevin, aged 40, Wife of Guard; sick or hurt, diarrhoea; put on sick list 24 April 1852, discharged 14 May 1852 to duty.
Folio 5: William Nevin, aged 6 months, Child of Guard; sick or hurt, convulsio; put on sick list 2 June 1852, discharged 9 June 1852 to duty.
The Principal Medical Officer, Dr Edward Nollett (also spelt as Nolleth) reported no serious medical incidents had occurred during the voyage. Yet one child was still-born, vaccinations were attempted (unspecified types), and two prisoners were found to be nearly blind on disembarkation.
Four Nevin family members were placed on the sick list during the voyage: John Nevin (father), Mary Anne, aged five, her mother Mary Ann (wife) , and her six month old baby William.
See this entry for the original documentation of the sick lists (National Archives, London) and this entry for more on the shipping records of the Fairlie with John Nevin snr.
House of Commons reports on the "Fairlie"
Source: House of Commons papers, Volume 54 (Google books)
The major concern in these reports were two convicts who were reported to be blind on arrival at Hobart. Because neither convict was named, those investigating had no success in locating them once they left the ship in Hobart, according to one report, thereby absolving Surgeon Superintendent Nolloth from knowingly embarking blind prisoners before departure at Plymouth.
Numbers embarking and arriving on the Fairlie 1852
Source: Report to the House of Commons: Vol 54
Link: Google Books Parliamentary Papers Great Britain
Religious instructor John B. Seaman
Source: Report to the House of Commons: Vol 54
Link: Google Books Parliamentary Papers Great Britain
TRANSCRIPT
August 11.Source: Report to the House of Commons: Vol 54
THREE years since I visited this establishment, and was much pleased with it, and extensive additions and improvements have rendered it more worthy of admiration.
(Signed) EDWARD NOLLOTH [sic] MD Surgeon Superintendent "Fairlie" Edward Nolloth MD Surgeon Superintendent
Link: Google Books Parliamentary Papers Great Britain
TRANSCRIPT
SIRReport of August 11, 1853:
I HAVE the honour to report my inspection of the "Fairlie" male prison ship, surgeon superintendent, Dr Edward Nollett.
The ship left Plymouth on the 11th March with 294 prisoners, under a guard of 30 out- pensioners, with 24 women and 47 children. They were generally healthy, the more prevalent complaints being diarrhoea and pulmonic affections. Two prisoners died, one from disease of the heart the second from pleurisy There were also two births, one still born.
I observed two prisoners who (I am informed) were embarked nearly blind They are fit cases for an invalid depot, and I have directed their removal to the General Hospital, together with four other men who are in delicate health and unfit at present for labour.
Vaccination was attempted but without success.
The berths, decks, and utensils were clean, and in good order.
I have etc The Comptroller General
(Signed) A. SHANKS Deputy Inspector General P. M. O.
Source: Parliamentary Papers By Great Britain Parliament. House of Common papers Vol 54
Source: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 54
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Site Map No.1: Thomas J. Nevin: family biographica
Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923)
Professional photographer Thomas James Nevin was known by a number of variations of his name, and several of these are now used in books, articles, theses, and public holdings catalogues. His published names, including advertising, newspaper reports, signature on official documents and business name on studio stamps have appeared as the following:
- Thomas Nevin
- Thomas James Nevin
- Thomas J. Nevin
- Thomas Nevin senior
- Thos Nevin
- T. Nevin
- T. Nevin late A. Bock
- T. J. Nevin
- Nevin & Smith
- Clifford & Nevin.
Photographer Thomas James Nevin is not to be confused with his son by the same name, Thomas James Nevin (1874-1948) who was not a professional photographer.
Family portraits taken by Thomas J. Nevin of himself and three of his wife Elizabeth Rachel Day (top row);
his brother William John aka Jack Nevin, himself, his sister Mary Ann Nevin, and himself again (bottom row).
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Please note that not all posts in each of these categories are listed below, and some links may be broken.
Family portraits of Thomas Nevin's parents, siblings, wife, in-laws and children
- Lost originals: the Nevin, Genge and Chandler family photographs
- The sweetest young brother: thirteen year old Jack Nevin 1865
- John Nevin at inquest for James Thornton 1889
- Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900s
- Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860s
- Death of Constable John Nevin in the typhoid epidemic of 1891
- Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
- Christmas from our Archives
- Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870
- John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documents
- John Nevin's poem on the death of James William Chisholm 1863
- John Nevin senior's land grant 1859 at Port Cygnet
- Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
- The desecration of Minnie Carr's grave 1898
- Why shave? Thomas Nevin and the pogonophiles
- ANZAC Centenary 1915-2015
- A supine "selfie" by Thomas J. Nevin 1870
- Our Fifteenth Anniversary 2005-2020
- Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio to 1888
- Miss Nevin and Morton Allport
- Constable John Nevin at Trucanini's funeral 1876
- Nevin Street and the Cascades Prison for Males 1870s-1880s
- "Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
- Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
- Two couples, two dogs by A. Bock and T. Nevin
- Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- John Nevin snr Service Records in The First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- Posing with a stereoscopic viewer
- Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin
- The Photographer's wife at the studio
- John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- Gunner Albert Morris and Eva Morris nee Nevin 1930s-40s
- Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr
- First son and second child, Thomas 'Sonny' Nevin
- Thomas J. Nevin's big tabletop stereograph viewer
- Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin's family
- Fourth son George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957)
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- Younger brother Constable John (Jack) NEVIN (1852-1891)
- Portraits of youngest son Albert E. NEVIN with horse 1914-17
- Thomas Nevin's stereography
- Thomas Nevin's portraits of his wife Elizabeth Rachel
- Third son William John Nevin (1878-1927)
- The Nevin group portrait and wedding photo 1871
- Preview of 2009: a selection from Nevin family collections
- Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852
- First- born child May Nevin and her China trade soapstone vase/brush washer
- John Nevin's Wesleyan Lament
- Nevin & Smith tinted vignette of Elizabeth Rachel Day 1868
- Thomas James 'Sonny' Nevin (1874 - 1948)
- Haulage at Newdegate Street North Hobart
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children
- Mary Sophia Day (m. Axup), Thomas Nevin's sister-in-law
- Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol 1860s
- Hector Charles James Horatio AXUP, Thomas Nevin's brother-in-law
- Key dates in Thomas Nevin's life
- Thomas Nevin, self-portrait ca. 1871
- Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868
- Thomas Nevin's Rank 1871
- Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin
- John Nevin's marriages to Mary Ann Dickson and Martha Genge
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- An early carte of Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871
- Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St. 1867-1868
At Kangaroo Valley, Hobart, Tasmania 1854-1887
- "HOPE": John Nevin's poem on slavery 1863 and the U.S. Proclamation of Emancipation
- Thomas Nevin's stereographs from the Pedder collection
- Gold seekers Thomas Nevin, John Thorpe and Duncan Chisholm 1869
- The house called "Tolosa" on the Hull estate
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the gold mania of the 1850s
- Nevin's coal mine stereograph for Messrs Sims and Stops
- Tombstones copied, Terms: - Cheap!
- The concertina player 1860s
- Thomas Nevin, informant for surveyor John Hurst 1868
- A few drinks on Christmas Eve 1885 at New Town
- Miss Nevin and Morton Allport
- Nevin Street and the Cascades Prison for Males 1870s-1880s
- John Watt Beattie and the Nevin family legacy
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- Preview: The Liam Peters Collection
- John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
- The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
- The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- John Nevin and Gould's white goshawk
- The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr
- Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley
- Site Map No.1: Thomas J. Nevin: family biographica
- John Nevin's Wesleyan Lament
- Mary Sophia Day (m. Axup), Thomas Nevin's sister-in-law
- Key dates in Thomas Nevin's life
- Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868
- At Lady Franklin's Museum, Kangaroo Valley 1868
- Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin
- Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871
- The New Town Studio Stereographs
Captain Edward Goldsmith, uncle of Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's vote of support for James Alexander Thomson 1853
- Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith and the saltmarsh known as Lady's Tippett, 1870
- Captain Edward Goldsmith: imports to Tasmania, exports to everywhere, 1840s-1860s
- Tragedy at Dickens' honeymoon cottage, Goldsmith's Plantation, Chalk, Kent (UK)
- Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and friends 1849
- Captain Goldsmith’s “private friend” Edward MacDowell 1840s
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's "unwieldy steamer", the twin ferry "Kangaroo"
- James McEvoy's fine fabrics ex Captain Goldsmith's "Parrock Hall" Sydney 1845
- Joseph Somes, Captain Edward Goldsmith and the "Angelina" 1844-46
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, AWOL seaman Geeves, and HMS Havannah
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and wife Elizabeth's land deals in VDL
- Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922
- 1854: a year onshore at Hobart Tasmania for Captain Edward Goldsmith
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Amateur Ethiopian Serenaders 1851
- Captain Edward Goldsmith puts household goods to auction 1885
- The Will of Richard Goldsmith snr 1839
- Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
- Serious money: Captain Edward Goldsmith and shipowner Robert Brooks
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, James Lucas and Peter Fraser: 500 acre leases 1853
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and gold mania 1850s
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, Captain John Clinch and the Tasmanian Steamship Navigation Company
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and Charles Dickens' Well Pump
- Captain Goldsmith, three bloodstock fillies, and a larboard collision
- Captain Edward Goldsmith at Secheron Bay 1839
- Captain Edward Goldsmith: death at sea of Antarctic circumnavigator Captain John Biscoe 1843
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, the diarist Annie Baxter, and a death at sea 1848
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's cargo ex London Docks per Rattler 1850
- Captain & Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith: Rattler's maiden voyage 1846
- Captain Goldsmith, the Parrock Hall, & playwright David Burn 1844-45
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's grave at Chalk Church Kent
- Captain Edward Goldsmith: Falkland Islands 1839
- A Christmas story: Captain Goldsmith, Charles Dickens and the Higham mail box
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the patent slip 1855
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the diving apparatus 1855
- Captain Goldsmith dines with the Franklins at Govt house
- Captain Goldsmith's humorous remark at Wm Bunster's dinner 1841
- Captain Goldsmith in Davey Street Hobart 1854
- Captain Edward goldsmith's land at Lake St Clair
- Captain Edward Goldsmith at the Royal Botanic Society Gardens
- Charles Dickens and Captain Goldsmith at Gadshill 1857
- Captain Edward Goldsmith at the New Market banquet 1854
- Departure of Captain Goldsmith and the 99th Regiment 1855
- Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
- The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the Waterloo 1832
- Cousins Edward Goldsmith and Elizabeth Day baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
- Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
- Captain Edward Goldsmith, the patent slip, and the McGregor family
- Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
- The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup
- Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
Descendants and in-laws
Axup, Day and Genge families
- First Mate James DAY on the "Panama" to California 1850-1852
- Captain Hector Axup and the French lady of Green Island 1888
- Captain Hector Axup at the farewell to SS Salamis, Sydney 1900
- Departure of Captain Goldsmith and the 99th Regiment 1855
- The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son
- Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- Hector Axup's donation to The Boys' Home for a ship 1887
- Mary Sophia Axup nee Day, sister-in-law
- Martha Nevin nee Genge, Mary & William Genge, step parents
- Disambiguation: James Day 52 yrs old and transported to VDL 1836
- Captain Day's wedding gift: Treaty of Paris medallion 1856
Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin’s children: Davis, Bates and Drew families
- Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin early 1900s
- Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
- Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
- Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin and children 1872-1888
- Whooping cough 1886: Nevin working as assistant bailiff
- May Nevin’s China trade soapstone vase
- First son Thomas 'Sonny' Nevin in Salvation Army uniform
- Sonny Nevin’s American journey with the Bates family
- Third son William John Nevin (1878-1927)
- Fourth son George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957)
- Haulage at Newdegate Street
- Portraits of youngest son Albert Nevin with horse 1914-17
Thomas & Elizabeth Nevin’s grandchildren
Grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren: only a few posts are included here out of respect for the living or recently deceased descendants and their families of Thomas and Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day.
- Preview of new research 2023
- ANZAC 1915-2015
- Gunner Albert Morris 1942
- Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- Preview of Eva Morris' Collection 2009
Summary: The Generations
Below is a brief summary of three generational levels of the immediate families of photographer Thomas J. Nevin and his wife Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day. Only a few articles are available of living or recently deceased descendants.
GENERATION ONE:
- Nevin, John and wife Mary Ann Nevin nee Dickson
- Nevin, John and second wife Martha Salter nee Genge
- Day, Captain James and wife Rachael Day nee Pocock
- Goldsmith, Captain Edward and wife Elizabeth Goldsmith nee Day
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) on the convict transport Fairlie in July 1852. Mary Ann Dickson was born at the Borders, UK and moved with her brother, rose grower Alexander Dickson to Newtonards, Ireland where she met and married John Nevin in 1841. John Nevin snr was a former soldier of the Royal Scots First Regiment, a journalist, poet, teacher, Wesleyan and gardener. They were settled at Kangaroo Valley (known as Lenah Valley since 1922) near Hobart, Tasmania by 1854. John Nevin married a second time in 1879 to widow Martha Salter nee Genge after the death of his first wife Mary Ann Nevin in 1875.
Thomas J. Nevin's portraits of his parents ca. 1872
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Parents of Thomas J. Nevin
Mother: Mary Anne Nevin nee Dickson (1810-1875)
Father: John Nevin snr ca (1808-1887)
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.
GENERATION TWO
- Nevin, Thomas James and wife Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Axup, Hector and wife Mary Sophia Day, sister of Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Goldsmith, Edward jnr, son of Captain Edward and Elizabeth Goldsmith nee Day (sister of Captain James Day)
NEVIN-DICKSON children
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) married John Carr in 1877
3. Rebecca Jane Nevin (1847-1865)
4. William John (Jack) Nevin (1852-1891)
Left: Thomas J. Nevin with stereoscopic viewer and white gloves mid-1860s.
Right: Portrait by Thomas Nevin of his brother Jack (Constable William John) Nevin ca 1880
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DAY-POCOCK children
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)
Elizabeth Rachel Day, married Thomas J. Nevin in 1871
Taken by Thomas Nevin at Nevin & Smith (late Bock's) ca. 1868 at 140, Elizabeth Street Hobart Town.
Full-length portrait, carte-de-visite. Copyright © KLW NFC Imprint. Watermarked.
GOLDSMITH -DAY children
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)
Grave of Captain Edward Goldsmith and family
Large ledger with rocks and horizontal cross
St Mary the Virgin Church, Chalk Kent UK
Photo copyright © Carole Turner March 2016
GENERATION THREE:
- Nevin, Thomas J. and wife Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Axup, Captain Hector and wife Mary Sophia Day
AXUP-DAY children
Mary Sophia Axup nee Day (1853-1942) and Hector Charles James Horatio Axup (1843-1927) had five children between 1878 and 1891.
Studio portrait of Ella Axup (Patience Ella Mary Axup, 1889 -1913)
Taken at the VANDYCK Studios, Launceston, Tasmania ca. 1911.
Postcard format. Verso inscribed: "Cousin Ella Axup"
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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 March 1920)
This notice of Olive Lilian Ethel's marriage appeared in the Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, on Wednesday 10 March 1920, page 6:
WEDDING BELLS, WILSHIRE--AXUP A quiet (Lenten) Anzac wedding was celebrated in St. John' Church yesterday morning. Those united in holy matrimony were Sergeant Charles Wilshire (late A.I. F.), of Wiltshire, England, son of the late Mrs. Wilshire, former private secretary to Mr. W. Long (Colonial Secretary), also great-grand son of the Duke of Wellington's aide-decamp at Waterloo; and Ethel, youngest. daughter of Captain H. C. Axup, of Launceston. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. C. Crotty. Miss Fiora Good was the only bridesmaid, and the bride was given away by her father. The happy couple travelled to Melbourne by the Loongana in the afternoon for their honeymoon. They will subsequently return to King Island, where the bridegroom intends to pursue agricultural interests.
NEVIN-DAY children
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:
George Ernest Nevin ca. 1901 in best suit Full length portrait with wicker whatnot.
Family photograph taken at home by his father Thomas Nevin snr
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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)
Above: an old webshot taken from the Archives Office of Tasmania website in 2005 of births to photographer Thomas J. Nevin and his wife Elizabeth Rachel Day.
GENERATION FOUR
Grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchildren: only a few posts are included here out of respect for the living or recently deceased descendants and their families of Thomas and Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day.
Thomas & Elizabeth Nevin’s grandchildren
- ANZAC 1915-2015
- Gunner Albert Morris 1942
- Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- Preview of Eva Morris' Collection 2009
- Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followed
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Site Map No.2: Work as a commercial and police photographer
Thomas James Nevin (1842-1923)
Professional photographer Thomas James Nevin was known by a number of variations of his name, and several of these are now used in books, articles, theses, and public holdings catalogues. His published names, including advertising, newspaper reports, signature on official documents and business name on studio stamps have appeared as the following:
- Thomas Nevin
- Thomas James Nevin
- Thomas J. Nevin
- Thomas Nevin senior
- Thos Nevin
- T. Nevin
- T. Nevin late A. Bock
- T. J. Nevin
- Nevin & Smith
- Clifford & Nevin.
Photographer Thomas James Nevin is not to be confused with his son by the same name, Thomas James Nevin (1874-1948) who was not a professional photographer.
Biographers Professor Joan Kerr and G. T. Stilwell (1992)
Curator John McPhee (ABC TV 2009) of T. J. Nevin exhibition QVMAG 1977
Main weblog
See also this separate site: Prisoner Pictures by T. J. Nevin
Please note that not all posts in each of these categories are listed below, and some links may be broken.
Career: studios, contracts, biographica
- Lost and found at the American War Mirror 1879
- Indigenous elder Truganini and poet Ann Kearney, 1875
- Thomas J. Nevin at William Snelling's inquest 1875
- Lost originals: the Nevin, Genge and Chandler family photographs
- NEVIN & SMITH, 1868: the client with white fingernails
- Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL
- George and Matilda Cherry at Thomas Nevin's studio ca. 1872
- Clients posing with Thomas J. Nevin's big box stereoscopic viewer
- Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870s
- John Nevin at inquest for James Thornton 1889
- Alfred Hope and his landau with Albert Nevin on horseback early 1900s
- Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860s
- Sarah Crouch at Thomas J. Nevin's studio ca. 1872
- Thomas Nevin's stereographs from the Pedder collection
- Death of Constable John Nevin in the typhoid epidemic of 1891
- Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
- Rosanna Domeney nee Tilley at Thomas Nevin's studio 1870s
- Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876
- Gold seekers Thomas Nevin, John Thorpe and Duncan Chisholm 1869
- Bleak Expectations: Captain Goldsmith's will in Chancery 1871-1922
- John Nevin snr and family 1851-1854: shipping documents
- John Nevin's poem on the death of James William Chisholm 1863
- Recent Hobart Publications 2016 and Thomas J. Nevin 1870s
- John Nevin senior's land grant 1859 at Port Cygnet
- Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882
- Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
- The desecration of Minnie Carr's grave 1898
- Why shave? Thomas Nevin and the pogonophiles
- Elizabeth Bayley at Runnymede, New Town 1874-1875
- A remarkable New Town studio stamp: Thomas Nevin+s
- Thomas Nevin, informant for surveyor John Hurst 1868
- A few drinks on Christmas Eve 1885 at New Town
- Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio to 1888
- Constable Blakeney's revenge on Thomas Nevin 1880
- Miss Nevin and Morton Allport
- Constable John Nevin at Trucanini's funeral 1876
- Nevin Street and the Cascades Prison for Males 1870s-1880s
- John Watt Beattie and the Nevin family legacy
- "Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
- Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
- Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892
- One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865
- Disambiguation: James Day 52 yrs old and transported to VDL 1836
- Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- Alfred Bock's other apprentice: William Bock
- John Nevin snr Service Records in The First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin
- The Mayor's Court and the Hobart Town Hall Keeper
- The Odd Fellows' Hall photograph 1871
- Chiniquy rioters injuring the Town Hall 1879
- Thomas Nevin setting the police at defiance 1881
- The Supreme Court Mugshots taken by T.J Nevin from 1871 onwards
- The Photographer's wife at the studio
- John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
- Watering the Town Hall trees too "infra dig" for the caretaker
- The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- Thomas Nevin and the Loyal United Brothers Lodge
- The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881
- Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882
- Thomas Nevin 1886: assistant bailiff to Inspector Dorsett
- Thos. (Thomas) Jas. (James) Nevin snr, John Perkins jnr and W.R. Giblin
- The case of prisoner Francis SHEARAN
- Apprentices: The Good, The Bad and The Careless
- A Zoological Curiosity at the Town Hall 1877
- An Ornithological Disaster: Thomas Nevin's emu 1878
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- John Nevin and Gould's white goshawk
- The early deaths of Thomas Nevin's sisters and niece Rebecca, Mary and Minnie Carr
- First son and second child, Thomas 'Sonny' Nevin
- Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin's family
- The QVMAG convict photos exhibition 1977
- Working with police and prisoners
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley
- The Nevin group portrait and wedding photo 1871
- The Medical Officer's report of the Fairlie passengers 1852
- Site Map No.1: Two generations of Thomas J. Nevin's Family
- Thomas Nevin's GHOST incident makes news in Maitland NSW
- Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852
- John Nevin's Wesleyan Lament
- Thomas James 'Sonny' Nevin (1874 - 1948)
- With Alfred Bock at The City Photographic Establishment 1860s
- Studio decor: the table with the griffin-shaped legs
- The Chiniquy Riots, Hobart Town Hall 1879
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children
- Professor Joan Kerr 1992-4
- Key dates in Thomas Nevin's life
- Parkhurst Boys on board 'The Fairlie' 1852
- Thomas Nevin, self-portrait ca. 1871
- Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868
- Thomas Nevin's Rank 1871
- Signatures and handwriting 1870s
- Thomas Nevin's funeral notice 1923
- Alfred Bock's stock-in-trade
- G.T. Stilwell's letter to Mrs Shelverton 1977
- John Nevin's marriages to Mary Ann Dickson and Martha Genge
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- Thomas Nevin detained for acting in concert with the "GHOST"
- Appearing late at night as a ghost
- Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871
- Tasmanian Newspapers: The Mercury & STILWELL Index
Stereography
- Thomas J. Nevin at the Citizen's Arch, 8 January 1868
- Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876
- Thomas Nevin's stereographs from the Pedder collection
- Contractors Thomas J. Nevin and "dog on the chain" James Spence 1872
- Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876
- Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870
- A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the "City of Hobart" 1872
- Thomas Nevin's photographs mounted on calico 1870s
- Gold seekers Thomas Nevin, John Thorpe and Duncan Chisholm 1869
- Dan Sprod and Thomas J. Nevin's photography in the 1970s
- Thomas Nevin's stereo view of St Mary's Cathedral, Hobart, ca. 1874
- Thomas Nevin and the Terpsichoreans, New Norfolk 1867 2
- The house called "Tolosa" on the Hull estate
- Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin's cohort
- John Nevin senior's land grant 1859 at Port Cygnet
- Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882
- Captain Goldsmith, Captain Clinch & the Tasmanian Steamship Navigation Company
- Trout and salmon ova for New Zealand 1873;
- The photographer's tent at Port Arthur: 1872 or 1874?
- Why shave? Thomas Nevin and the pogonophiles
- Nevin's coal mine stereograph for Messrs Sims and Stops
- Bridge over the Derwent at New Norfolk 1850s-1890s
- With Jean Porthouse GRAVES 1870s West Hobart
- On board the Harriet McGregor 1871-80
- The Glenorchy Landslip 1872
- Elwick House and Elwick Bay
- Thomas Nevin on kunanyi/Mount Wellington 1860s
- Nevin's photographs at the Art Gallery NSW exhibition 2015
- A supine "selfie" by Thomas J. Nevin 1870
- Thomas Nevin's VIP commission 1872
- Views and portraits for the Lands & Survey Department
- Tombstones copied, Terms: - Cheap!
- A remarkable New Town studio stamp: Thomas Nevin+s
- The firm of Nevin & Smith stamps and label 1867-1868
- The concertina player 1860s
- Marcus Clarke and Thomas Nevin at the Old Bell Hotel 1870
- Captain Edward Goldsmith at The New Market Banquet 1854
- Thomas J. Nevin's Blue Ink Series
- Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892
- The Governor's Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son Edward
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the McGregor family
- Posing with a stereoscopic viewer
- Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- Queen's Brian May & Elena Vidal on T.R. Williams' stereography
- T. NEVIN PHOTO: The blindstamp impress on stereographs
- Samuel Clifford, Thomas Nevin and two cameras
- The Photographer's wife at the studio
- The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
- On the road with Sam Clifford and Thomas Nevin 1874
- Apprentices: The Good, The Bad and The Careless
- Thomas Nevin and H.H. Baily at the Regatta 1872
- Thomas J. Nevin's big tabletop stereograph viewer
- Red and violet: the impact of Brewster stereoscopy
- Thomas Nevin's stereography
- Site Map No.2: Professional work as commercial and police photographer
- Melville St from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
- Thomas Nevin and Robert Smith 1865-1868
- Stereographs by Clifford & Nevin at 'Narryna'
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery databases
- Thomas Nevin & Samuel Clifford partnership and identical views 1860s-1870s
- Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol 1860s
- Young man with stereograph viewer
- Hobart Town from Lime Kiln Hill
- Thomas Nevin's salt paper stereos at the TMAG
- At Lady Franklin's Museum, Kangaroo Valley 1868
- Rocking Stone Parties on kunanyi/Mount Wellington
- Clifford & Nevin at the Salmon Ponds and Plenty 1860s-1870s
- State Library of Tasmania's "Unknown"
- Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St. 1867-1868
- The New Town Studio Stereographs
Prison photographer, Port Arthur and Hobart Gaol
- Prisoner George CHARLTON, photo by T. J. Nevin, September 1874
- Prisoner Charles J. GARFORTH said he would make Superintendent Adolarious H. BOYD pay dearly, 1875
- Beware AI generated images of your criminal ancestors!
- The Poulter album: "Weekly Courier" reprints 1900s of 1870s photographs by T. J. Nevin
- PrisonerJohn FITZPATRICK and/or John FITZGERALD 1867-1885
- In a party mood: prisoner Michael LYNCH (as Horrigan, Harrigan or Sullivan), Christmas Eve, December 24th 1881
- Prisoner Cornelius HESTER, photograph by T. J. Nevin 1874
- T. J. NEVIN's cdv's of Wm PRICE and Wm YEOMANS and A. H. BOYD's testimony 1875
- Shorthand, Hansard, Port Arthur, corruption and laughter in Parliament 18th July 1873.
- A missing photograph and missing letter: John SMITH (x 2) per "Mangles" and Lord Calthorpe
- Prisoner Thomas ARCHER alias Thomas SMITH or James SMITH 1875
- The case against Henry Stock 1884 for the murder of his wife and her child
- Prisoner Joseph WALMSLEY: a "queer-looking man" 1842-1891
- Prisoner James GLEN 1874 and 2003
- "Hair inclined to be curley": prisoner Henry SMITH aka Clabby aka Cooper
- T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks
- Prisoner Richard PHILLIPS 1874
- Prisoner George GROWSETT 1860 and 1873
- Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875
- Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870 - 1876
- Prisoner William SAYER or SAWYER 1875
- Prisoner James ROGERS forges into the leap year 1868
- Thomas Nevin's photographs mounted on calico 1870s
- Prisoner Daniel DAVIS 1883, 1892 and 1897
- Dan Sprod and Thomas J. Nevin's photography in the 1970s
- T. J. Nevin's mugshot of John FINELLY taken at the Police Office Hobart March 1874
- The LONG con: our comments on Julia Clark's fraudulent thesis
- Prisoner William TURNER 1841-1879
- Convict photographs by T. J. Nevin at the Art Gallery NSW Centenary Exhibition 1976
- Weekly Returns, the police forms 1880s: no more ships' names please
- Prisoners George NEAL (aka Neill) and George NEAL
- Prisoners William SEWELL and Ralph NEILL 1867-1874
- Prisoner Philip BURTON
- A glaring fraud: Joseph James COOPER aka the "Artful Dodger" 1875-1889
- Sideshow Alley: Thomas Nevin at the NPG exhibition 2015
- Prisoner Henry CLABBY and the TMAG frame-up
- Thomas Nevin and Frederick Stops, right-hand man to the A-G
- Rogues Gallery: the National Library of Australia collection
- Prisoner William KELLOW 1872
- Prisoner John POPE 1881
- Miscarriage of justice: the case of John MAYNE 1874
- Rogues Gallery: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection
- Thomas Nevin’s glass plates of prisoners 1870s
- Prisoner William RYAN wholesale forger at the TMAG
- Prisoner Cornelius GLEESON 1873 and 1916
- Rogues Gallery: the QVMAG prisoner photographs collection
- Hobart Gaol camera and mugshot books 1891-1901
- Nevin's photographs at the Art Gallery NSW exhibition 2015
- Calling the shots in colour 1864-1879
- Prisoner Richard COPPING and Hobart Gaol executions
- Julia Clark must face up to academic fraud
- Mugshots removed: Edward Searle's Album 1915
- Prisoner James GEARY: mugshots and rap sheet 1865-1896
- Prisoner Mark JEFFREY, a Port Arthur flagellator
- Prisoner Ephraim DOE
- The Trial of Joshua ANSON 1877
- The Albumen Process: examples by Thomas J Nevin ca. 1874
- Carnal knowledge of children: convictions 1860s-1880s
- Disambiguation: two prisoners called William SMITH
- Prisoner Michael GILMORE and the NLA
- Prisoner Charles GARFITT and the QVMAG
- Prisoner Thomas GRIFFIN
- John Watt Beattie and the Nevin family legacy
- Prisoner Nathan HUNT 1870s-1890s
- Photographers A. Bock, S. Clifford and T. Nevin at Port Arthur
- The fruitless search of wadsley-1
- Mugshots removed: prisoner William FORD 1886
- Tasmanian prisoner portraits from TAHO at Flickr
- Two mugshots of convict Hugh COHEN or Cowen/Cowan 1878
- Prisoner mugshots by Constable John Nevin to 1890
- Mugshots removed: Thomas RILEY aka Ryley/Reilly 1875 and 1892
- Prisoner Robert aka James OGDEN, photographed by T. J. Nevin 1875
- Convict portraits by Thomas J. Nevin at the National Library of Australia
- "Securing a proper likeness": Tasmania, NSW and Victoria from 1871
- Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
- Prisoner James MORGAN alias Morgan the Poet who sings in pubs
- The Millbank Prison photographer 1888
- How to read the records: prisoner Peter MOONEY
- Prisoner George WILLIS and Tasmanian police records 1872-1880
- Prisoner John SULLIVAN, cook and thief 1875
- Edwin Barnard at the NLA with Nevin's convict photographs
- A missing or unidentified mugshot : prisoner Alfred HARRINGTON
- Habitual offender Edward WALLACE at the Hobart Gaol
- Thomas FRANCIS was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th Feb 1874
- Good reading for The Kid 1921: Tasmanian police gazettes
- Tasmanian crime statistics 1866-1875
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holdings
- From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits
- The Supreme Court Mugshots taken by T.J Nevin from 1871 onwards
- Warwick Reeder: in search of an "author"
- Aliases, Copies and Misattribution
- Samuel Page's Royal Mail coach
- A first-class faithful Likeness, February 1873
- Vernacular or art? Nevin at the threshold in 1874
- Tricks of the prison limner and sitter 1866
- Thomas Nevin 1886: assistant bailiff to Inspector Dorsett
- Improprieties: A. H. Boyd and the Parasitic Attribution
- Prisoners Wm MEAGHER, Wm LEE and Chas ROSETTA 1870s
- The case of prisoner Leonard HAND
- Poster boys 1991 of Tasmanian prisoners 1870s
- 19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
- The case of prisoner Francis SHEARAN
- Fraudulent pretensions
- T. J. Nevin's prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW
- T. J. Nevin's mugshots: the transitional pose and frame
- Nevin's photos of prisoners SUTHERLAND and STOCK with death warrant
- Margaret Glover and the fabrication of photohistory
- The QVMAG convict photos exhibition 1977
- "In a New Light": NLA Exhibition with Boyd misattribution
- Three significant prisoner cartes by T.J. Nevin
- Two histories, one execution: prisoners Job SMITH & Emanuel BLORE
- About those photographic glasses 1873 ...
- Working with police and prisoners
- From glass negative to print: prisoner Bewley TUCK
- Younger brother Constable John (Jack) NEVIN (1852-1891)
- The trial of Joshua ANSON 1877
- Prisoner James THOMAS
- Prisoner William HARRISON 1873
- Prisoner Charles HEYS [Hayes?] or WARD
- Prisoner George EDIKER
- Prisoner Henry PAGE
- Prisoner Luke MARSHALL
- Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new NPG Canberra
- Babette Smith on Australia's Birthstain
- Site Map No.2: Professional work as commercial and police photographer
- Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852
- Heads of the People exhibition NPG Canberra 2000
- The first Rogues' Galleries
- The PARKHURST prisoners & anthropometry
- Prisoner Bewley TUCK can speak for himself
- Trademarks copyrighted for 14 years
- The A.H. Boyd misattribution at DAAO
- Prisoner portraits taken at trial and discharge 1870s
- National Library of Australia's convict portraits
- Prisoner George LEATHLEY
- Poster of Thomas Nevin's convict photographs 1870s
- Thomas Nevin's hand-coloured convict photographs
- Cartes-de-visite photographs of convicts by Nettleton and Nevin
- T. J. Nevin's Royal Arms studio stamp
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery databases
- Mirror with a Memory Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery 2000
- Two histories, two inscriptions: Tasmanian prisoners 1874
- Anne-Marie Willis & Richard Neville on the Boyd misattribution
- Alfred Bock & Thomas Nevin at Port Arthur 1860s
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Prisoner Charles BROWN aka Wm FORSTER: The Bulletin, May 16, 1978
- Well-groomed prisoners MORRIS and EVANS
- Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
- Sir Francis Smith, the death warrant, and the photographer
- W. R. Giblin, Judge, Attorney-General and Premier
- Anthony Trollope's Port Arthur interviewee 1872
- Mugshots removed: Edward Searle's album 1915
- NLA 'native' convict 1874 with no attribution
- Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol 1860s
- The QVMAG, the NLA, Chris Long, and A.H. Boyd
- The journey from Hobart to Port Arthur 1873-4
- NLA's 'Intersections' with convict carte by Nevin
- Parkhurst Boys on board 'The Fairlie' 1852
- Prison photographers: Nevin, Nettleton, and Crawford
- Execution of prisoners SUTHERLAND and OGDEN 1883
- How misattribution can persist
- Convict Carte No. 1: George WHITE aka NUTT
- The QVMAG Exhibition 1977 of convict photographs
- Prisoner records of Allan WILLIAMSON and William SMITH
- Robert Hughes "The Fatal Shore" with mugshots by T. J. Nevin'
- Archives Office of Tasmania convict photographs by T. J. Nevin
- The Australian People: six prisoner cdv's by T. J. Nevin
- NLA holdings of Thomas J. Nevin's convict portraits
Exhibitions and Publications
- Confusion for the press, 1879: was she/he/they a female or a male "impersonator"?
- T. Nevin cdv at the "Who Are You" exhibition, NGV and NPG 2022
- Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876
- Gifts for Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Hobart 1868
- "Hair inclined to be curley": prisoner Henry SMITH aka Clabby aka Cooper
- T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks
- Thomas Nevin's stereographs from the Pedder collection
- Prisoner Richard PHILLIPS 1874
- Thomas Nevin and Alfred Barrett Biggs 1872-1876
- Exhibition 2019: T. J. NEVIN's mugshot of prisoner James BLANCHFIELD 1875
- Prisoner John NOWLAN alias DOWLING 1870 - 1876
- Thomas Nevin, Sam Clifford and the Flying Squadron at Hobart, January 1870
- Captain Goldsmith, AWOL seaman Geeves, and HMS Havannah
- Thomas Nevin at the Canary and Cage Bird Show 1869
- Dan Sprod and Thomas J. Nevin's photography in the 1970s
- The Long Con: Chris LONG and the FRITH family legacy 2018
- T. J. Nevin's mugshot of John FINELLY taken at the Police Office Hobart March 1874
- Prisoner John APPLEBY 1873
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the conundrums of the Ethiopian Serenaders 1851
- Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
- Thomas Nevin at the Tasmanian Poultry Show 1869
- The house called "Tolosa" on the Hull estate
- Prisoner William TURNER 1841-1879
- Recent Hobart Publications 2016 and Thomas J. Nevin 1870s
- Convict photographs by T. J. Nevin at the Art Gallery NSW Centenary Exhibition 1976
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the gold mania of the 1850s
- Thomas Nevin's Christmas feat 1874
- Prisoners George NEAL (aka Neill) and George NEAL
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and Charles Dickens' well pump
- Captain Goldsmith, three bloodstock fillies and a larboard collision
- Captain & Mrs Elizabeth Goldsmith: Rattler's maiden voyage 1846
- Captain Goldsmith, the Parrock Hall and playwright David Burn, Sydney 1844
- Sideshow Alley: Thomas Nevin at the NPG exhibition 2015
- A Christmas Story: Captain Goldsmith, Charles Dickens and the Higham mail box.
- Prisoner Henry CLABBY and the TMAG frame-up
- Thomas Nevin and Frederick Stops, right-hand man to the A-G
- On board the Harriet McGregor 1871-80
- Thomas Nevin’s glass plates of prisoners 1870s
- Prisoner Cornelius GLEESON 1873 and 1916
- Nevin's photographs at the Art Gallery NSW exhibition 2015
- Calling the shots in colour 1864-1879
- Prisoner Alfred MALDEN or MALDON 1874
- The firm of Nevin & Smith stamps and label 1867-1868
- Thomas Nevin, informant for surveyor John Hurst 1868
- Marcus Clarke and Thomas Nevin at the Old Bell Hotel
- Prisoner Mark JEFFREY, a Port Arthur flagellator
- Blame it on Beattie: the Parliamentarians photographs
- Captain Edward Goldsmith in Davey Street, Hobart 1854
- Captain Edward Goldsmith at the Royal Society Gardens
- Prisoner Michael GILMORE and the NLA
- Prisoner Charles GARFITT and the QVMAG
- John Watt Beattie and the Nevin family legacy
- Two couples, two dogs by A. Bock and T. Nevin
- Paris Expo 1855: Captain Goldsmith's blue gum plank
- Thomas J. Nevin's Blue Ink Series
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
- Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
- Hector Axup's donation to The Boys' Home for a ship 1887
- Queen's Brian May & Elena Vidal on T.R. Williams' stereography
- Edwin Barnard at the NLA with Nevin's convict photographs
- A missing or unidentified mugshot : prisoner Alfred HARRINGTON
- Thomas FRANCIS was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th Feb 1874
- The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holdings
- Aliases, Copies and Misattribution
- Samuel Page's Royal Mail coach
- Julia Clark: A Question of Stupidity & the NLA
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- The Colonists' Trip to Adventure Bay 1872
- Vernacular or art? Nevin at the threshold in 1874
- Nevin's portraits of children gifted to the Duke 1868
- Poster boys 1991 of Tasmanian prisoners 1870s
- On the road with Sam Clifford and Thomas Nevin 1874
- A Zoological Curiosity at the Town Hall 1877
- An Ornithological Disaster: Thomas Nevin's emu 1878
- Thomas Nevin's Christmas cards 1874;
- Thomas Nevin and H.H. Baily at the Regatta 1872
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- John Nevin and Gould's white goshawk
- Fraudulent pretensions
- The QVMAG convict photos exhibition 1977
- "In a New Light": NLA Exhibition with Boyd misattribution
- Two histories, one execution: prisoners Job SMITH & Emanuel BLORE
- About those photographic glasses 1873 ...
- Red and violet: the impact of Brewster stereoscopy
- Prisoner John MORAN
- Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new NPG Canberra
- Babette Smith on Australia's Birthstain
- Site Map No.2: Professional work as commercial and police photographer
- Thomas Nevin's GHOST incident makes news in Maitland NSW
- Heads of the People exhibition NPG Canberra 2000
- The first Rogues' Galleries
- Laterality: the poses in Nevin's portraits
- The PARKHURST prisoners & anthropometry
- Melville St from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
- Prisoner Bewley TUCK can speak for himself
- Thomas Nevin and Robert Smith 1865-1868
- National Library of Australia's convict portraits
- Poster of Thomas Nevin's convict photographs 1870s
- Tasmanian Studios to 1900
- Wellington Park Exhibition July 1868
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery databases
- Mirror with a Memory Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery 2000
- Two histories, two inscriptions: Tasmanian prisoners 1874
- Anne-Marie Willis & Richard Neville on the Boyd misattribution
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Dry plate photography 1860s
- John Watt Beattie's Museum ca 1916
- Prisoner Charles BROWN aka Wm FORSTER: The Bulletin, May 16, 1978
- The Chiniquy Riots, Hobart Town Hall 1879
- Professor Joan Kerr 1992-4
- Anthony Trollope's Port Arthur interviewee 1872
- Mugshots removed: Edward Searle's album 1915
- The QVMAG, the NLA, Chris Long, and A.H. Boyd
- NLA's 'Intersections' with convict carte by Nevin
- How misattribution can persist
- Convict Carte No. 1: George WHITE aka NUTT
- The QVMAG Exhibition 1977 of convict photographs
- Thomas Nevin's Rank 1871
- Prisoner records of Allan WILLIAMSON and William SMITH
- At Lady Franklin's Museum, Kangaroo Valley 1868
- Rocking Stone Parties on kunanyi/Mount Wellington
- G.T. Stilwell's letter to Mrs Shelverton 1977
- Clifford & Nevin's cartes: tints versus daubs
- Robert Hughes "The Fatal Shore" with mugshots by T. J. Nevin'
- The Australian People: six prisoner cdv's by T. J. Nevin
- NLA holdings of Thomas J. Nevin's convict portraits
- The red and green tinted sprigs and Wm Maguire
- Tasmanian Newspapers: The Mercury & STILWELL Index
Private Collections
- Indigenous elder Truganini and poet Ann Kearney, 1875
- Captains, emigrants and convicts: the summer of 1842-1843 in Hobart, VDL
- Best of friends: Emma PITT and Liz O'MEAGHER 1866
- Lost and found: one day in 1866 and the scientific racism which followed
- Reproductions of Charles A. Woolley's portrait of Tasmanian Aborigines 1860s-1915
- Thomas J. Nevin at his finest: Camille Del Sarte and family 1860s-1870s
- Alfred Bock and the Bayles sisters
- Elizabeth Allport nee Ritchie at Thomas J. Nevin's studio 1876
- Gifts for Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Hobart 1868
- Elizabeth Rachel Day's album opener 1860s
- T. J. Nevin's 1870s mugshots the inspiration for 21st century artworks
- Death of Constable John Nevin in the typhoid epidemic of 1891
- Youngest daughter Minnie Nevin m. James Drew (1884-1974)
- Christmas from our Archives
- A distinguished forelock: Henry Dresser Atkinson on board the "City of Hobart" 1872
- Treasures passed down from Captain Edward Goldsmith and Captain James Day
- Portraits and landscapes from T. J. Nevin's cohort
- One session, two poses at the City Photographic Establishment
- Captain Goldsmith, James Lucas and Peter Fraser: 500 acre leases 1853
- John Nevin senior's land grant 1859 at Port Cygnet
- Marriage breakdown: Elizabeth Amos v Alfred Threlkeld Mayson 1879-1882
- Tom Nevin and father-in-law bandmaster Walter Tennyson Bates
- Thomas Nevin's Christmas feat 1874
- Captain Edward Goldsmith's grave at Chalk Church, Kent UK
- The photographer's tent at Port Arthur: 1872 or 1874?
- Why shave? Thomas Nevin and the pogonophiles
- Captain Edward Goldsmith: Falkland Islands 183
- With Jean Porthouse GRAVES 1870s West Hobart
- On board the Harriet McGregor 1871-80
- Donation of Nevin graphica from private collector to the NLA
- Thomas Nevin's VIP commission 1872
- Portraits of older women by Thomas Nevin 1870s
- Male and female clerics and Nevin's table 1870s
- Thomas Nevin's women clients and their dresses 1870s
- Views and portraits for the Lands & Survey Department
- Our Fifteenth Anniversary 2005-2020
- Thomas J. Nevin at the New Town studio to 1888
- Captain Edward Goldsmith in Davey Street, Hobart 1854
- Constable John Nevin at Trucanini's funeral 1876
- John Watt Beattie and the Nevin family legacy
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the Waterloo (1832)
- "Lines on the much lamented death of Rebecca Jane Nevin" by John Nevin 1866
- Two couples, two dogs by A. Bock and T. Nevin
- Thomas J. Nevin's Blue Ink Series
- Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary's Rotherhithe
- Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892
- One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
- John Nevin snr Service Records in The First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- Posing with a stereoscopic viewer
- Thomas Nevin's stereos of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin
- A highly coloured portrait
- T. NEVIN PHOTO: The blindstamp impress on stereographs
- Samuel Clifford, Thomas Nevin and two cameras
- T.J. Nevin's portraits of the McVilly children 1874
- Preview: The Liam Peters Collection
- The Photographer's wife at the studio
- Lyn Hagan: art from Nevin's 'Tazmanian' convicts
- John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- Gunner Albert Morris and Eva Morris nee Nevin 1930s-40s
- A first-class faithful Likeness, February 1873
- Christmas 1874: Thomas Nevin's photographic feat
- Thomas Nevin's Christmas cards 1874
- John Nevin: "My Cottage in the Wilderness" 1868
- John Nevin and Gould's white goshawk
- Portraits by T.J. Nevin in The Lucy Batchelor Collection
- First son and second child, Thomas 'Sonny' Nevin
- Thomas J. Nevin's big tabletop stereograph viewer
- Wedding gift: Treaty of Paris medallion 1856
- Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin's family
- Fourth son George Ernest Nevin (1880-1957)
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- Red and violet: the impact of Brewster stereoscopy
- Younger brother Constable John (Jack) NEVIN (1852-1891)
- Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley
- Portraits of youngest son Albert E. NEVIN with horse 1914-17
- Thomas Nevin's stereography
- Thomas Nevin's portraits of his wife Elizabeth Rachel
- Third son William John Nevin (1878-1927)
- The Nevin group portrait and wedding photo 1871
- Preview of 2009: a selection from Nevin family collections
- Site Map No.1: Two generations of Thomas J. Nevin's Family
- Site Map No.2: Professional Work
- Another rare Nevin & Smith studio stamp
- Elizabeth Nevin's souvenir cruet of the Model Prison
- Sonny Nevin's American journey with the Bates family
- First- born child May Nevin and her China trade soapstone vase/brush washer
- John Nevin's Wesleyan Lament
- Thomas Nevin & Samuel Clifford partnership and identical views 1860s-1870s
- Thomas James 'Sonny' Nevin (1874 - 1948)
- Haulage at Newdegate Street North Hobart
- With Alfred Bock at The City Photographic Establishment 1860s
- Studio decor: the table with the griffin-shaped legs
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children
- Mary Sophia Day (m. Axup), Thomas Nevin's sister-in-law
- Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol 1860s
- Hector Charles James Horatio AXUP, Thomas Nevin's brother-in-law
- Young man with stereograph viewer
- Charles A. Woolley and H.H. Baily
- Thomas Nevin, self-portrait ca. 1871
- Kangaroo Valley house and school stereographs ca.1868
- Harrisson Collection: three studio stamps
- Marcel Safier Collection
- Alfred Bock's stock-in-trade
- Clifford & Nevin's cartes: tints versus daubs
- Thomas Nevin's studio decor and tints ca.1871
- Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin
- John Nevin's marriages to Mary Ann Dickson and Martha Genge
- Clifford & Nevin at the Salmon Ponds and Plenty 1860s-1870s
- The Clifford & Nevin portraits with hand-colouring
- The red and green tinted sprigs and Wm Maguire
- An early carte of Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin's Wedding Photographs 1871
- Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St. 1867-1868
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Saturday, October 04, 2008