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One of the last portraits by Alfred Bock in Hobart 1865

Posted on April 19, 2013 by TP Publishers

Girl with bare shoulders by Alfred Bock 1865

This gallery contains 12 photos.

This photograph of a teenage girl with bare shoulders and ringlets may be one of the very last taken by Alfred Bock in Hobart Tasmania before his departure in 1865. The design of the studio stamp on the verso was altered only minimally by his younger partner Thomas J. Nevin who bought the lease of the studio, shop, the glass house and darkroom, the stock of negatives, camera equipment, backdrops and furniture etc at auction on August 2, 1865. Thomas Nevin continued to use the stamp’s design for his commercial studio portraiture for another decade, although he used at least six other designs for various formats and clients, including the Royal Arms insignia for commissions with the Colonial government. Continue reading →

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“Securing a proper likeness”: Tasmania, NSW and Victoria from 1871

Posted on April 17, 2013 by TP Publishers

NRS 2138, Darlinghurst Gaol Photographic Description Book, Thomas Berry, [3-6040 p.93], Reel 5098

This gallery contains 17 photos.

Professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin was commissioned by his family solicitor, the Attorney-General W.R. Giblin, to photograph prisoners for the Colonial Government of Tasmania as early as 1871, the year the government of NSW authorised the Inspector of Prisons, Harold McClean, to commence the photographing of all prisoners convicted in the NSW Superior Courts. Continue reading →

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Childhood photos of son George and daughter Minnie Nevin

Posted on June 3, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

The photographer of the original photos was not recorded by the TAHO in 1974, and no studio stamp is evident of the recto of each copy. As the original family album from which they were copied has yet to come to light, a photographer attribution is not yet possible. The copies deposited at TAHO by the Drew family included two childhood photographs of Thomas and Elizabeth Nevin’s daughter Minnie Nevin, and one of son George Nevin. Continue reading →

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Samuel Clifford, Thomas Nevin and two cameras

Posted on May 6, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 13 photos.

DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS LTD HOBART BOOK FAIR was held on February 12 – 13, 2011 with three items on sale pertaining to Thomas J. Nevin’s commercial photography.

STEREOGRAPH of CLIFFORD’S CAMERA
The first was this stereograph attributed to Samuel Clifford but ostensibly showing Clifford’s camera. Who took the photograph? Did Clifford carry two cumbersome cameras with him into this dense bush setting at Brown’s River, or was he accompanied – as so often he was around Tasmania – by Nevin? If so, the stereograph deserves the double attribution of Clifford & Nevin, an inscription which appears on several items also held in private collections. Continue reading →

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T.J. Nevin’s portraits of the McVilly children 1874

Posted on April 21, 2012 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 11 photos.

Portrait of Laura Blanche McVilly. and two other children. Held in McVilly, Richard William, 1862?-1949 :Photograph albums and a group portrait. Ref: PA2-1198. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Continue reading →

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The Odd Fellows’ Hall photograph 1871

Posted on June 26, 2011 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

THE ODD FELLOWS’ HALL – A very fine photograph of the Odd Fellows’ Hall (corner of Davey and Harrington-streets) has been taken for the Society by Mr. Nevin, of Elizabeth-street. The view is taken from Davey-street, opposite the corner of the Freemasons’ Hotel, and thus shows the entrance to the rooms, with the whole front and side of the buildings. A well-known member of the institution, and a less known youth, have come within the range of the camera, and their presence greatly assists in conveying an idea of the dimensions of the hall. The picture is undoubtedly creditable to the artist. Continue reading →

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Chiniquy rioters injuring the Town Hall 1879

Posted on May 14, 2011 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 17 photos.

The eight rioters “were charged with riotously injuring a building”, “riotously injuring the Town Hall” and specifically – “the breaking open of the ante-room of the Town Hall” . The charges would have incurred a severe penal code punishment of seven years’ imprisonment and a trial at the Supreme Court. However, Attorney-General Giblin sought to substitute the charge with the lesser one of disturbing the peace, and at this sitting, reported in The Mercury on 11th July 1879, the charges were withdrawn entirely because of Giblin’s concern with excessive costs involved in such a trial.

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From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits

Posted on August 27, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 5 photos.

“… portraits of prisoners taken in the dock …” THOMAS BOCK Police artists worked in the Supreme Court of Tasmania from as early as 1824. An album of portraits of “prisoners taken in the dock” (Dunbar, QVMAG catalogue 1991:25) by … Continue reading →

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Husbands and Wives NPG Exhibition 2010

Posted on May 12, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 9 photos.

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

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The Colonists’ Trip to Adventure Bay 1872

Posted on April 19, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 5 photos.

On February 2, 1872 Thomas J. Nevin placed an advertisement in The Mercury informing the public and visitors (tourists) that his photographs, taken on a Colonists’ Trip down the River Derwent to Adventure Bay on the eastern side of Bruny Island, were ready and for sale. Continue reading →

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Thomas Nevin 1886: assistant bailiff to Inspector Dorsett

Posted on February 2, 2010 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 11 photos.

In early December 1880, Thomas Nevin was dismissed from the position of “Keeper” at the Hobart Town Hall for inebriation while on duty. The Mayor’s Committee expressed deep regret at the dismissal (reported in The Mercury December-January 1880-1881), and mindful of his growing family, the Council decided to retain his photographic services. He was re-assigned to civil service with warrant and photographic duties as assistant bailiff with The Municipal Police Office, located at the Hobart Town Hall. Working principally in the City Police Court and Hobart Supreme Court as assistant to Sub-Inspector John Dorset(t), Nevin continued to provide identification photographs of prisoners up until 1889, a service he had provided for the Prisons Department and MPO since 1872. Continue reading →

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On the road with Sam Clifford and Thomas Nevin 1874

Posted on September 27, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 12 photos.

TRAVELLING PHOTOGRAPHERS 1874 On this tour, Clifford and Nevin travelled on the main road north from Hobart to Launceston. Courtesy State Library of Tasmania Samuel Clifford ca. 1874 Melton Mowbray from the Bothwell Road Ref: AUTAS001124850124 Tasmanian professional photographers Thomas … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nevin and H.H. Baily at the Regatta 1872

Posted on September 2, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 6 photos.

THE TRIP DOWN THE RIVER.- A photograph of the “Colonists’ Trip” has been very well taken by Mr. Nevin, which will be of special interest to those who took part, and will probably like to secure this remembrance of so memorable event. Continue reading →

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Nevin’s big tabletop stereograph viewer

Posted on August 3, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Although this image is faint – it is a scan of a print pasted into the scrapbook of his son George – it shows clearly enough that George’s father, photographer Thomas J. Nevin, was rather fond of his big box tabletop stereograph viewer. Continue reading →

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Key dates in Thomas Nevin’s life

Posted on April 1, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 8 photos.

KEY CHRONOLOGY 1842-1923 SUMMARY Thomas J. Nevin produced large numbers of stereographs and cartes-de-visite within his commercial practice, and prisoner ID photographs on government contract and in civil service. He was one of the first photographers to work with the … Continue reading →

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Three significant prisoner cartes by T.J. Nevin

Posted on March 30, 2009 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 14 photos.

More than 3000 Tasmanian prisoner identification photographs (mugshots) were taken by the brothers Thomas and (Constable) John (Jack) Nevin between 1872 and 1884. T. J. Nevin, 9 convicts photographs Mitchell Library NSW (PXB 274) Photo KLW NFC 2009 Arr Most … Continue reading →

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Preview of 2009

Posted on December 20, 2008 by TP Publishers

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Thomas Nevin’s GHOST incident makes news in Maitland NSW

Posted on August 16, 2008 by TP Publishers

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“The man in the centre of the road threw a reflection upon the one alongside the wall. The reflection was also upon the wall for a height of about 7 ft. Witness walked quickly towards the man in the road, and at the same time two men came stealthily out of George-street. Witness then commenced to run. One of those who came out of George-street said, “Come back, George.” Witness replied, “Don’t you see this fellow playing the ghost?” when the man in the middle of the road again threw a reflection upon the ghost. Witness arrested this man, who proved to be Nevin. The other two me pursued the man who had been acting as ghost. Nevin was taken to the police station, where he was searched at his own request. There was nothing that would account for the appearance of the ghost found upon him…” Continue reading →

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Prisoner portraits taken at trial and discharge

Posted on February 21, 2008 by TP Publishers

This gallery contains 8 photos.

INTENDED PURPOSE

An examination of the criminal history of the individual prisoners whose photographs survive indicates that each photograph was selected, even salvaged by archivists because each man had been committed and sentenced at the Tasmanian Supreme Court for a lengthy term. If sentenced at the Supreme Court in Launceston, he was transferred to the Hobart Gaol where he was bathed, shaved, photographed and isolated for one month in silence after being received, along with those already sentenced in criminal sittings of the Hobart Supreme Court . Continue reading →

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Alfred Bock & Thomas Nevin at Port Arthur 1860s

Posted on October 13, 2007 by TP Publishers

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The Port Arthur photographers … Alfred Bock 1860s © TP for Private Collections 2010 ARR In 1863, Thomas J. Nevin applied for an apprenticeship with Alfred Bock at his studio, The City Photographic Establishment, 140 Elizabeth-street, Hobart Town. Alfred Bock’s … Continue reading →