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Poster boys 1870s
Who were they? They were photographer T.J. Nevin’s sitters for police records. Above: Wall chart or poster of Tasmanian convicts produced by the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority ca… more →
Tasmanian photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923)
Poster boys 1870s
Nevin publishers wrote 1 month ago: Who were they? They were photographer T.J. Nevin’s sitters for police records. Above: Wall cha … more →
19th century prison photography: Tasmania 1872
Nevin publishers wrote 2 months ago: When Thomas Nevin sat down to read The Mercury on the morning of 24th October 1872 and turned to an … more →
An Ornithological Disaster: Thomas Nevin's emu 1878
Nevin publishers wrote 3 months ago: How Thomas Nevin’s emu died at the Hobart Town Hall… Was it the Dromaius novaehollandiae … more →
"In a New Light": NLA exhibition with Boyd misattribution
Nevin publishers wrote 9 months ago: Sometime ca. 2000-2003 the National Library of Australia reproduced 22 carte-de-visite vignettes fro … more →
Two significant prisoner cartes by T. J. Nevin
Nevin publishers wrote 9 months ago: Two? more than 300 Tasmanian prisoner mugshots were taken by Thomas and Jack Nevin between 1872 and … more →
Two histories, one execution
Nevin publishers wrote 9 months ago: Emanuel Blore and Job Smith aka William Campbell From the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Collectio … more →
About those photographic glasses 1873
Nevin publishers wrote 9 months ago: GENESIS of the BOYD MISATTRIBUTION A.H. Boyd (1827-1891) was a Hobart-born accountant appointed to g … more →
Working with police and prisoners
Nevin publishers wrote 9 months ago: Thomas Nevin (1842-1923) worked with the Military police, the Municipal police, and the Territorial … more →
From glass negative to printed carte
Nevin publishers wrote 10 months ago: From glass negative to printed carte: Thomas Nevin’s capture of convict Tuck, but was it BEWLE … more →
Younger brother Jack Nevin (1851-1891)
Nevin publishers wrote 10 months ago: Brothers Thomas and Jack Nevin at H.M. Gaol, Hobart. Younger brother Jack Nevin … Jack (W.J. o … more →
The trial of Joshua Anson
Nevin publishers wrote 11 months ago: The Anson brothers photographers, and there were only two – Joshua, who called himself John on … more →
Babette Smith on Australia's Birthstain
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: Click on images for readable version These two men were not incarcerated at Port Arthur in 1874. The … more →
Convict cartes by Thomas Nevin at the new NPG Canberra
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: The new National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, opened to the public on December 4, 2008. Currently dis … more →
Heads of the People exhibition NPG Canberra 2000
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: Room 1: the red arrow points to convict records with photos by Nevin Two plate photographs of John W … more →
The first Rogues' Galleries
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: Tasmanian commercial photographer Thomas J. Nevin produced carte-de-visite identification photograph … more →
Laterality: the poses in Nevin's portraits
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: The National Library of Australia holds a batch of carte-de-visite photographs of Tasmanian convicts … more →
The PARKHURST prisoners & anthropometry
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: “There is no criminal type”: Dr Goring, the Lombrosian Theory, Bertillonage, and Beattie … more →
Melville Street from the Hobart Gaol 140 years ago
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: Thos Nevin at H.M. Gaol 1860s Archives Office of Tasmania Reference: PH30/1/3661 Title: Campbell Str … more →
Bewley Tuck can speak for himself
Nevin publishers wrote 1 year ago: Bewley Tuck, convict per Lotus. Photographed at Port Arthur by Thomas Nevin. Archives Office of Tasm … more →
