The first weblogs on Tasmanian Photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) appeared in 2003 at the host Blogharbor, and moved to Google, WordPress and Freehostia in 2006-2007.
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By Title:
- Cousins Edward and Elizabeth baptised at St Mary’s Rotherhithe
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the wreck of the James 1830
- Tom and May Nevin at the Union Chapel flower show 1892
- Mr Lipscombe, Captain Goldsmith and the Mammoth Strawberry
- The fruitless search of wadsley-1
- One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865
- “Securing a proper likeness”: Tasmania, NSW and Victoria from 1871
- Disambiguation: James Day 52 yrs old and transported to VDL 1836
- The Governor’s Levee 1855: Captain Goldsmith and son
- A new site for descendants and in-laws of Thomas J. Nevin
- Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
- Mary Sophia Axup chair of the WPL 1913
- Captain Edward Goldsmith and the McGregor family
- Hector Axup’s donation to The Boys’ Home for a ship 1887
- Testimonial to Captain Edward Goldsmith 1849
- Alfred Bock’s other apprentice: William Bock
- The Master Mariner in-laws: Captains Goldsmith, Day and Axup
- At the Henry Jones & Co. IXL Factory
- Convict James Morgan alias Morgan the Poet who sings in pubs
- John Nevin snr Service Record in the First or Royal Regiment 1825-1841
- Betty’s scissor cut silhouette by S. John Ross 1948
- John Nevin snr and the Genge family
- How to read the records: convict Peter Mooney
- Posing with a stereoscopic viewer
- Thomas Nevin’s stereo of sister Mary Ann at New Town rivulet
- Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin
- A highly coloured portrait
- Queen’s Brian May & Elena Vidal on T.R. Williams’ stereography 1850s
- T. NEVIN Photo: the blindstamp on stereographs
- Samuel Clifford, Thomas Nevin and two cameras
- George Willis prison records 1872-1880
- T.J. Nevin’s portraits of the McVilly children 1874
- The Mayor’s Court and the Hobart Town Hall Keeper
- The Odd Fellows’ Hall photograph 1871
- Chiniquy rioters injuring the Town Hall 1879
- John Sullivan, cook and thief 1875
- Edwin Barnard: it takes one to know one
- Nevin setting the police at defiance 1881
- Preview: The Liam Peters Collection
- A missing or unidentified mugshot: Alfred Harrington
- Habitual offender Edward Wallace at Hobart Gaol
- Thomas FRANCIS was photographed by T.J. NEVIN on 6th February 1874
- Good reading for The Kid 1921:police gazettes
- Tasmanian crime statistics 1866-1875
- 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
- From the C. G. Harrisson Collection: three studio stamps
- The Photographer’s Wife
- Aliases, Copies, and Misattribution
- Samuel Page’s Royal Mail coach
- Aylward, Phillip
- John Nevin in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellion 1837-38
- Watering the Town Hall trees too “infra dig” for the caretaker
- A Question of Stupidity & the NLA
- The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
- Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010
- ANZACS: Gunner Athol Tennyson Nevin and his WW2 medals
- The Colonists’ Trip to Adventure Bay 1872
- A first-class faithful Likeness February 1873
- Thomas Nevin and the Loyal United Brothers Lodge
- The Nevin farm burglariously entered 1881
- Vernacular or art? Nevin at the threshold in 1874
- Tricks of the prison limner and sitter 1866
- Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882
- Thomas Nevin 1886: assistant bailiff to Inspector Dorsett
- Thos. (Thomas) Jas. (James) Nevin sr, John Perkins jr, and W.R. Giblin
- Improprieties: A. H. Boyd and the Parasitic Attribution
- Convict Wm Meaghers, original by Nevin 1874-5
- Christmas 1874: Thomas Nevin’s photographic feat
- Nevin’s portraits of children gifted to the Duke 1868
- Poster boys 1870s
- Paul, Samuel
- 19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
- On the road with Sam Clifford and Thomas Nevin 1874
- The case of 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
- 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 early deaths of Thomas Nevin’s sisters Rebecca and Mary
- Portraits by T.J. Nevin in The Lucy Batchelor Collection
- T.J. Nevin’s prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW
- First son and second child, Thomas ‘Sonny’ Nevin
- Nevin’s big tabletop stereograph viewer
- Wedding gift: Treaty of Paris medallion 1856
- Nevin’s mugshots: the transitional pose and frame
- Nevin’s photos of prisoners Sutherland and Stock with death warrant
- Two histories, one execution
- Margaret Glover and the fabrication of photohistory
- Jack Nevin, the other photographer in Thomas Nevin’s family
- Rosetta, Charles
- Lee, William
- The QVMAG convict photos exhibition 1977
- Cavanagh, Henry
- Maldon, i.e. Malden, Alfred
- The pauper on Thomas Nevin’s carpet and Brother Payne
- “In a New Light”: NLA Exhibition with Boyd misattribution
- Key dates in Thomas Nevin’s life
- Three significant prisoner cartes by T.J. Nevin
- Two histories, one execution
- Mismatched records : The Bulletin 1978
- About those photographic glasses 1873 …
- Working with police and prisoners
- Fourth son George Ernest Nevin
- Thomas Nevin self portraits 1850s-1880
- Red and violet: the impact of Brewster stereoscopy
- Ferns, convicts, and Charles Darwin
- From glass negative to printed carte
- The firm of Nevin & Smith
- Younger brother Jack Nevin (1851-1891)
- Oral history: Nevin family at Kangaroo Valley
- Portraits of youngest son Albert with horse 1914-17
- The trial of Joshua Anson
- Thomas Nevin’s stereography
- Thomas Nevin’s portraits of his wife Elizabeth Rachel
- Third son William John Nevin (1878-1927)
- Jeffries, Henry (aka Thomas)
- Walter Johnstone aka Henry Bramall or Taylor
- Sutherland, James
- Langley, George
- Hayes, William
- Harrison, William
- Forster, William or Charles Brown
- Campbell aka Smith, Job
- Baker, William
- William Adams alias Burton alias Corby
- Gilmore, Michael
- Killern or Killeen, Peter
- Williams, John
- Murphy, John
- Morrison, John
- Jones, John
- Gregson, John
- Funt, John
- Edington, John
- Doran, John
- Jones, James alias Brocklehurst, known as Spider
- Harrison, James
- Foley, James
- Ormiston, George
- Leathley, George
- Growsett, George
- Brown, George as Thomas Wilson
- Gregson, Francis
- Heys, Charles aka Charles Ward
- Welham or Willhem, Wm
- Price, William
- Hall, William
- White, John
- Merchant, John
- Finlay, John or Finelly
- Conlaw i.e.Conlan, James
- Williams, Henry
- Singleton, Henry or Richard Pinches
- Wilson, George
- Johnson, George
- Ediker, George
- Booth, Ephraim
- McDonald, Duncan
- Dogherty, Denis
- Ward, Charles
- Woodley, William or John
- Walker, William
- Mumford, William
- Evans, Samuel
- West, Robert
- Toomey, John
- Page, Henry
- Moran, John
- Morris, John F.
- Wynne, James [Wynn]
- Harper, James
- Geary, James
- Calhoun, James
- Fisher, George
- Dawnes or Downes, Charles
- Gilmore, Micheal alias Terence Moore
- Brady, James
- FRANCIS, Thomas, photo by T.J. Nevin, 6th Feb 1874
- Kelly, Thomas
- Griffin, Thomas
- Thomas, James
- Reilly .i.e. Ryley, Thomas
- Molineaux, Thomas
- Wood, Thomas as Key
- Appleby, John
- Marshall, Luke
- Cahill, Thomas
- Hand, Leonard
- McKay, Robert J.
- The Nevin Group Portrait ca 1878
- Preview of 2009
- Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new NPG Canberra
- Babette Smith on Australia’s Birthstain
- The Medical Officer’s report of the Fairlie passengers 1852
- More on the versos of some convict cartes …
- Stereographs slideshow
- Thomas Nevin’s GHOST incident makes news in Maitland NSW
- Nevins on sick list during voyage out on the Fairlie 1852
- Heads of the People exhibition NPG Canberra 2000
- The first Rogues’ Galleries
- Laterality: the poses in Nevin’s portraits
- The PARKHURST prisoners & anthropometry
- Melville Street from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
- Bewley Tuck can speak for himself
- Nevin & Smith’s stock photography
- Trademarks copyrighted for 14 years
- The A.H. Boyd misattribution at DAAO
- Prisoner portraits taken at trial and discharge
- National Library of Australia’s convict portraits
- George Leathley, No. 226
- Another rare Nevin & Smith studio stamp
- Poster of Thomas Nevin’s convict portraits 1870s
- Stereographs by Clifford & Nevin at ‘Narryna’
- Thomas Nevin’s hand-coloured convict photographs
- Studios to 1900
- Elizabeth Nevin’s souvenir cruet of the Model Prison
- Sonny Nevin’s American journey with the Bates family
- First-born child May Nevin and the China trade soapstone vase
- Vignettes of convicts by Nettleton and Nevin
- Wellington Park Exhibition July 1868
- Nevin’s Royal Arms studio stamp
- John Nevin’s Wesleyan Lament
- Rare Nevin & Smith portrait
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery databases
- Nevin & Clifford identical views
- Mirror with a Memory Exhibition 2000 at the National Portrait Gallery
- Daughter-in-law Emily Maud Nevin nee Davis
- Haulage at Newdegate St. North Hobart
- Two histories, two inscriptions
- With Alfred Bock at The City Photographic Establishment
- Anne-Marie Willis & Richard Neville on the Boyd misattribution
- Alfred Bock & Thomas Nevin at Port Arthur 1860s
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Dry plate photography 1860s
- The table with the griffin-shaped legs
- John Watt Beattie’s Museum ca 1916
- The Bulletin, May 16, 1978
- Well-groomed prisoners Morris and Evans
- Nepotism, corruption and Port Arthur 1873
- The Chiniquy Riots, Hobart Town Hall 1879
- Sir Francis Smith, the death warrant, and the photographer
- Elizabeth Rachel Nevin nee Day & children
- Mary Sophia Day (m. Axup), sister-in-law
- W. R. Giblin, Judge, Attorney-General and Premier
- Professor Joan Kerr 1992-4
- Anthony Trollope’s Port Arthur interviewee 1872
- John Watt Beattie’s reprints
- The case of Leonard Hand
- NLA ‘native’ convict 1874 with no attribution
- Jack Nevin at the Hobart Gaol 1860s
- Captain Hector Axup, brother-in-law
- 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
- The pauper on Thomas Nevin’s carpet & Brother Payne
- Young man with stereograph viewer
- Prison photographers: Nevin, Nettleton, and Crawford
- Execution of Sutherland and Ogden
- Charles A. Woolley and H.H. Baily
- How misattribution can persist
- Visual pleasures 15 July 1871: the Dioramas
- Thomas Nevin, self-portrait ca. 1871
- Convict Carte No. 1: George White aka Nutt
- The Kangaroo Valley farm & New Town stereos
- Hobart Town from Lime Kiln Hill
- The QVMAG Exhibition 1977 of convict photographs
- Thomas Nevin’s salt paper stereos at the TMAG
- Authorship of Tasmanian Premiers
- Recto & verso of a “Port Arthur convict” carte
- Thomas Nevin’s Rank 1871
- Signatures and handwriting 1870s
- Prisoners Smith and Williamson, cartes by T. J. Nevin
- At Lady Franklin’s Museum, Kangaroo Valley
- Rocking Stone Parties on Mount Wellington
- Thomas Nevin’s funeral notice 1923
- Marcel Safier Collection
- Alfred Bock’s stock-in-trade
- G.T. Stilwell’s letter to Mrs Shelverton 1977
- Clifford & Nevin’s cartes:tints versus daubs
- Thomas Nevin’s studio decor and tints ca. 1871
- Mary Ann Nevin, sister of Thomas Nevin
- Thomas Nevin’s parents
- Robert Hughes “The Fatal Shore”
- Archives Office of Tasmania convicts
- At the Salmon Ponds and Plenty
- Clifford & Nevin, and the coloured cartes
- NLA holdings of Thomas J. Nevin’s convict portraits
- Thos. Nevin detained for acting in concert with the ”GHOST”
- Hugh Munro Hull & the wallhanging
- The red and green tinted sprig and Wm Maguire
- Prisoner with headrest
- State Library of Tasmania’s ”Unknown”
- Appearing late at night as a ghost
- An early carte of Elizabeth Rachel Day
- Thomas & Elizabeth Nevin’s Wedding Photo
- Tasmanian Newspapers: The Mercury & STILWELL Index
- Nevin & Smith studio Elizabeth St.
- The New Town studio stereograph
