Professional photographer Thomas J. Nevin became a member of the LOYAL UNITED BROTHERS LODGE, A. & I.O.O.F. (Australian and International Order of Odd Fellows) in 1869 and fulfilled several roles within the Society, including official photographer, committee member for the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Newspapers
Chiniquy rioters injuring the Town Hall 1879
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AFTER the CHINIQUY RIOTS …. Hobart Town Hall interior 1879. Artist unknown. Private Collection, Copyrighted Antique Print Room THE HOBART TOWN HALL RIOTERS The Hobart newspaper The Mercury of June 26, 1879 was a special edition in many ways for … Continue reading
Nevin setting the police at defiance 1881
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TESTING THE BY-LAW at the ALL NATIONS HOTEL Thomas J. Nevin was retained as police photographer and assistant bailiff by the City Corporation on compassionate consideration for his family after his dismissal in December 1880 from the full-time civil service … Continue reading
Samuel Page’s Royal Mail coach
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Samuel Page held the government contracts for the Royal Mail coach deliveries between Hobart and Launceston, and contracted Nevin for photographic advertisements of his coachline. Samuel Page lived at Belle Vue, New Town, a villa with stables, paddocks and gardens. … Continue reading
Watering the Town Hall trees too “infra dig” for the caretaker
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Hobart Town Hall (Tasmania), opened in 1864. Photo © KLW NFC 2008 ARR. On a dry Spring afternoon, a day or so before 19th September, 1879, a reporter at The Mercury newspaper office looked out his window and across the … Continue reading
A Question of Stupidity & the NLA
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CARDBOARD CONVICTISM … Cardboard convict Hyde Park Barracks Sydney All photos © KLW NFC 2009-2010 ARR If A.H. Boyd were alive today, he would be very surprised indeed to read that he was the photographer of the extant Tasmanian prisoners’ … Continue reading
The Excelsior Coal Mine at New Town 1874
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The former Commandant at Port Arthur, James Boyd, incumbent to the position prior to the appointment of A.H. Boyd (who was NOT a photographer), had left Tasmania by the 29th December 1873 on the barque Ethel, bound for England (per … Continue reading
The Colonists’ Trip to Adventure Bay 1872
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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 … Continue reading
A first-class faithful Likeness February 1873
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Hard times 1872 Thomas Nevin’s commercial studio stamp ca. 1871 Images courtesy Marcel Safier © 2006. Small businesses in Tasmania were affected by an economic downturn in 1872, precipitated by excessive costs involved in railway construction, a decline in population, … Continue reading
Thomas Nevin and the Loyal United Brothers Lodge
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Thomas Nevin’s family doctor, E.L. Crowther … Dr Edward L. Crowther ca. 1880 Printed by the Anson Brothers State Library of Tasmania Ref:AUTAS001126072727 Thomas Nevin, photographer, 140 Elizabeth-street, Hobart, inserted an advertisement in The Mercury which appeared over several weeks … Continue reading
Constable W.J. Nevin at inquest 1882
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The Nevin brothers, Thomas (T. J. Nevin, 1842-1923) and John (W. J. Nevin, 1852-1891) served the Police and Prisons Departments of the Tasmanian government from the late 1860s to the late 1880s. Thomas was contracted as prisons and police photographer … Continue reading
Thos. (Thomas) Jas. (James) Nevin sr, John Perkins jr and W.R. Giblin
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FATHERS and SONS and the BROTHER-in-LAW’s PORTRAIT: Thomas James Nevin senior and junior, and John Perkins senior and junior. John Perkins senior (1812-1877) State Library of Tasmania Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [19--] Members of the Parliaments of Tasmania No. … Continue reading
Convict Wm Meaghers, original by Nevin 1874-75
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Very few of these lantern slide reproductions and paper reprints by Beattie and Searle from Nevin’s original negative images of 1870s convicts have survived. This item, of prisoner William Meaghers (1874), is held in the NLA collections with the prisoner’s … Continue reading
Christmas 1874: Thomas Nevin’s photographic feat
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Seasons Greetings 2009 to all our readers, researchers, contributors and extended family. Visitors to Thomas J. Nevin’s weblogs on 2nd January 2010 at midday: Click on images for large view Exactly 135 years ago, Thomas Nevin commemorated Christmas with a … Continue reading
19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
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When Thomas Nevin sat down to read The Mercury on the morning of 24th October 1872 and turned to an article reprinted from the London papers on “the valuable working of the Prevention of Crimes Act, or as it is … Continue reading