Prisoner Thomas WOOD as KEY

Thomas Wood or Key was discharged from the Hobart Gaol in January 1878. His photograph may have been taken again on discharge but more likely it was reprinted from Nevin's original glass negative held at the Hobart Gaol in the photographer's room. He was soon back in court a year later,

Carte-de-visite photograph of prisoner Thomas or Key
Printed from T. J. Nevin's negative, Hobart Gaol, 1873
NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Title from verso: "Thomas Wood or Key, native, taken at Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1874"
Extent: 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.3 x 5.6 cm.
Link: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142915467

POLICE GAZETTE NOTICES 1878 -1882

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

Thomas Wood+s or Key per Lady Nugent was discharged from the Hobart Gaol in the week ending 30 January 1878. He may have been photographed again on discharge, or more likely, a new print from the photographer's original negative was produced. One of those new cdv's may be the very clean one of two held at the TMAG.

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

Thomas Woods, per Lady Nugent, 63 years old, was convicted at Bothwell (Tas) and sentenced to 12 months for larceny from a dwelling during the week ending 28 December 1878. Because his sentence was longer than 3 months, he was transferred back to the Hobart Gaol where this offence would have been added to his old rap sheet with his cdv already pasted to it.

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

Here is Thomas Wood, now gazetted by police as Wood+s or Key+s per Lady Nugent, 66 years old, 5ft 7½ins tall, discharged from Oatlands (Tas) where he was tried on 8 June 1882, sentenced to 3 months for being idle and disorderly. Remarks show he was lame and disfigured, with scars and a broken nose.

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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