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Hector C. Axup (1843-1927) married Mary Sophia Day (1852-1941), the younger sister of Thomas Nevin’s wife Elizabeth Rachel Day, on May 1st, 1878, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Kangaroo Valley, Tasmania. It was his second marriage. Hector C. Axup ca. 1880s. … Continue reading
The Queen Victoria and Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, seemed so intent on abrogating the name of Thomas J. Nevin as photographer from any association with its holdings of the “Port Arthur convicts” photographs which were exhibited there in … Continue reading
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The notice below was published in Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac in 1873, at a time when the Port Arthur prison site on the Tasman Peninsula, 60 kms from Hobart, was still in operation. The traveller from Hobart faced a frequently interrupted, … Continue reading
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Helen Ennis 2004 and the NLA collection … Intersections: Photography, History and the National Library of Australia By Helen Ennis ISBN 0 642 10792 0 pb, large format 270 b&w and colour photographs. 297 x 240mm 285pp Publisher: National Library … Continue reading
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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. He was one of the first photographers to work with the police in Australia, along … Continue reading
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A Tasmanian pioneer family … Portraits by Thomas Nevin of his parents ca. 1871. Courtesy of © Denis Shelverton 2006-2007. ARR. Thomas Nevin’s father, John Nevin, served in the Royal Scots at the Canadian Rebellions 1837-8, before embarking on the … Continue reading
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It is likely that the man photographed here standing on Thomas Nevin’s carpet was William Graves, and that Nevin photographed him in May 1875. This may not be the only photograph of William Graves taken by Nevin. There may have … Continue reading
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Who is this? A photographer? It isn’t a portrait of Thomas Nevin, nor is this young man minus a beard Thomas’ younger brother Jack Nevin. But it is a portrait of a serious young man with a love of cameras … Continue reading
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“‘I have the honor to inform you that in obedience to your instructions I visited the stockade on the 21st and the gaol on the 22nd inst. and likewise consulted the Sheriff and Superintendent of Convicts as to the best method of carrying out the wishes of the Government in regard to taking photographs of the prisoners in these establishments. I found in the stockade 147 and in the gaol 110 prisoners – of these say 120 in the stockade and 70 in the gaol, in all 190, would be such characters as the Sheriff or Commissioner of Police might desire to have photographs of for police purposes…” Continue reading
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The colouring of these cartes served two purposes: to render a more accurate image reflective of reality, i.e. blue for blue eyes, blue for the prison issue scarf, especially when the man was wanted on warrant; and to profit from the sale of the hanged man’s image to the press and the public. These were called “ornaments of colour”, a term used in reference to Nevin’s tinting of prisoner photographs in the Mercury newspaper account of Nevin’s incident with the “ghost” (December 4, 1880).
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THE PHOTOGRAPHER COHORT Thomas Nevin belonged to a cohort of Tasmanian professional photographers of the 1860s-1880 which included his two partners Alfred Bock who was an accomplished sennotypist (until 1867) and Samuel Clifford whose output of stereographs was prodigious (1860s-1878). … Continue reading
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