Category Archives: Liam Peters Collection

John Nevin snr and the Genge family

This gallery contains 22 photos.

WESLEYAN CHAPEL KANGAROO VALLEY John Nevin (1808-1887), Wesleyan, poet, teacher, journalist and Royal Scots veteran of the Canadian Rebellions 1837-38, arrived in Tasmania with his wife Mary and four children in 1852, and settled on land adjacent to the Franklin … Continue reading

| Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Posing with a stereoscopic viewer

This gallery contains 12 photos.

Clients of early photographers were not the only ones to pose with the photographer’s own stereoscope(s). Two extant cartes-de-visite self-portraits by Thomas J. Nevin from The Nevin Family Collections captured his treasured stereoscopes, one with him holding a small viewer, … Continue reading

| Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A highly coloured portrait

This gallery contains 9 photos.

Unidentified woman, seated with sewing A highly colored carte-de-visite ca. 1872 Taken by T.Nevin late A.Bock, 140 Elizabeth St., Hobart Town Held at the Archives Office of Tasmania TAHO Ref: PH31/439 Photo © KLW NFC Imprint 2012 ARR This carte-de-visite … Continue reading

| Tagged , | Leave a comment

Preview: The Liam Peters Collection

This gallery contains 26 photos.

Seven (7) previously unpublished photographs by Thomas J.Nevin or pertaining to Thomas J. Nevin’s photography from the 1870s were scanned and submitted to this weblog by private collector Liam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

| Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment