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Paul, Samuel
SUPREME COURT CONVICTION NLA Catalogue notes Part of collection: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874. Gunson Collection file 203/7/54. Title from inscription on verso. Inscription: “65 ; Samuel… more →
Tasmanian photographer | Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)
Captain Henry James Day of the 99th Regiment
wrote 1 month ago: Archives Office of Tasmania Left: Ref: 30-38c. Memorial column, 99th Regiment, Anglesea Barracks, er … more →
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holdings
wrote 2 years ago: This Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery notice about their photographic collections appeared in Novemb … more →
From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits
wrote 2 years ago: “… portraits of prisoners taken in the dock …” THOMAS BOCK Police artists wo … more →
The Supreme Court mugshots taken by T. J. Nevin from 1871 onwards
wrote 2 years ago: THE PHOTOGRAPHER Professional and commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin undertook the job of syste … more →
Aliases, Copies, and Misattribution
wrote 2 years ago: ALIASES, COPIES & MISATTRIBUTION … numbered copies … George White as Nutt, George N … more →
A Question of Stupidity & the NLA
wrote 2 years ago: CARDBOARD CONVICTISM … Cardboard convict Hyde Park Barracks Sydney All photos © KLW NFC 2009-2 … more →
Tricks of the prison limner and sitter 1866
wrote 3 years ago: The following written extracts are from The Photographic News London 1866. While some prisons and ju … more →
Improprieties: A. H. Boyd and the Parasitic Attribution
wrote 3 years ago: Thomas J. Nevin photographed A. H. Boyd ca 1876: compare these two portraits. Left: believed to be a … more →
Convict Wm Meaghers, original by Nevin 1874-5
wrote 3 years ago: Very few of these lantern slide reproductions and paper reprints by Beattie and Searle from Nevin … more →
Poster boys 1870s
wrote 3 years ago: Who were they? They were T.J. Nevin’s sitters for police records, mostly “Supreme Court … more →
Paul, Samuel
wrote 3 years ago: SUPREME COURT CONVICTION NLA Catalogue notes Part of collection: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 187 … more →
19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
wrote 3 years ago: When Thomas Nevin sat down to read The Mercury on the morning of 24th October 1872 and turned to an … more →
The case of Francis Shearan
wrote 3 years ago: An eventful week …. June 26, 1879 Francis Shearan, Photo by T.J. Nevin 1878 The Hobart newspap … more →
Fraudulent pretensions
wrote 3 years ago: There are several reprints of a particular photograph of empty streets and the penitentiary at the P … more →
T.J. Nevin’s prisoner mugshots, Mitchell Library NSW
wrote 3 years ago: THOMAS NEVIN’S ELEVEN The Mitchell Library at the State Library of NSW has catalogued eleven p … more →
Nevin’s mugshots: the transitional pose and frame
wrote 3 years ago: In the first of his 3×3 year contracts to the Prisons Department of the Tasmanian Colonial Gove … more →
Nevin’s photos of prisoners Sutherland and Stock with death warrant
wrote 3 years ago: From the David Scott Mitchell Collection, 1907 … Photography © KLW NFC 2009 ARR. Above: Detail … more →
Two histories, one execution
wrote 3 years ago: Blore and Job Smith From the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collection Reproduced from page 36 of … more →
Rosetta, Charles
wrote 4 years ago: National Library of Australia Catalogue Part of the collection of photographs compiled by Australian … more →
