Prisoner John TOOMEY 1875

Serial forger John Toomey, photographed on discharge at the Hobart Gaol 1875 by government contractor T. J. Nevin.

NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Title John Toomey, per Ratcliffe, taken at Port Arthur, 1874
Date 1874
Extent 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm.

This copy of the prisoner's mugshot was displayed on the National Library catalogue in 2005 with correct photographer attribution to Thomas J. Nevin:

POLICE RECORDS
John Toomey per Ratcliffe 2 was tried at the Launceston Supreme Court on 16 October 1867, sentenced to 10 yrs for uttering a forged cheque. He was discharged at Hobart in May 1875, no physical characteristics or age were documented.

John Toomey per Ratcliffe 2 was convicted at the Supreme Court Launceston on 10 October 1867, sentenced to 10 years.

Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime for Police, J. Barnard, Gov't printer

John Toomey per Ratcliffe 2 was received from Port Arthur, photographed by government contractor T. J. Nevin on discharge at the Hobart Municipal Police Office, Town Hall on 1st May 1875. Also discharged and photographed by Nevin in the same week were prisoners John Moran and Bewley Tuck.

PRESS REPORTS
Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Monday 21 October 1867, page 2

LAW.
LAUNCESTON SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 1867.
BEFORE His Honor Sir Francis Smith, Knight, Puisne Judge.
FORGERY.
Alfred Henry Moore and John Toomey, sepa-rately charged with this offence, pleaded guilty.

Source: https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8848553

Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880), Wednesday 23 October 1867, page 5

John Toomey, convicted on his own confession of uttering a forgery, having ben twice previously convicted of a similar offence, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.
Wm. Parker, convicted of uttering a forgery, was sentenced to four years' im-prisonment. Henry Moore, convicted upon his own confession of forgery, handed in a written appeal to his Honor, stating that he had previously borne a good character, and appealed to his Honor's consideration. His Honor said he would, and regretted to see so young a man in the prisoner's position. He hoped the prisoner would not abuse his leniency, as he would sentence him to only two years' imprisonment.

Source: https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72185355

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BIOGRAPHY: Professional photographer Thomas James Nevin snr (1842-1923) produced large numbers of stereographs and cartes-de-visite within his commercial practice, and prisoner identification photographs on government contract. His career spanned nearly three decades, from the early 1860s to the late 1880s. He was one of the first photographers to work with the police in Australia, along with Charles Nettleton (Victoria) and Frazer Crawford (South Australia). His Tasmanian prisoner mugshots are among the earliest to survive in public collections, viz. the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; the Tasmanian Heritage and Archives Office, Hobart; the Port Arthur Historic Site, Tasman Peninsula; the National Library of Australia, Canberra; and the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney. Thomas J. Nevin's stereographs and portraits are held in public and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Switzerland.

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THE MUGSHOTS:Thomas Nevin's extant prisoner identification prints and cartes-de-visite in oval mounts - "mugshots" - were taken between 1871 and 1888. The public collections consists of 350+ estrays from more than 2000 photographs taken of prisoners in Tasmania by Thomas Nevin and his brother Constable John Nevin. The National Library of Australia currently holds 87 photographs, the State Library of NSW holds 13 photographs, the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery holds 112 photographs, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery holds more than 50, and the Archives Office of Tasmania holds 10 originals and 100 or so paper copies of the QVMAG collections. A dozen or so are held in Private Collections.

DISCLAIMER: We have not voluntarily contributed to any publication which supports the misattribution of Nevin’s prisoner/convict photographs (300+ extant) to the non-photographer A.H. Boyd, nor do we condone any attempts by public institutions or private individuals to co-opt the work on these Nevin weblogs to apply the misattribution.

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Irish-born Thomas J. Nevin would have been keenly aware that the residence and photographic studio he occupied at No's 138-140 Elizabeth St. Hobart in the 1870s were built on nipaluna, the traditional lands of the palawa people. It is no small irony that today, the very same property, which is renumbered as No. 198 Elizabeth St. Hobart and is occupied by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, has returned to its traditional owners.

Looking east from the corner of Patrick St., the Royal Standard Hotel, 142 Elizabeth St. then T. J. Nevin’s studio and residence, 140-138 Elizabeth St. Hobart, 1870s

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