Prisoner Walter JOHNSTONE aka Henry BRAMALL or TAYLOR

Two photographs printed in cdv mounts of Tasmanian prisoner Walter Johnstone aka Henry Bramall aka Taylor, taken by government contractor Thomas J. Nevin in 1874 at the Hobart Gaol, are held at the NLA. One cdv is tinted, with a neck scarf painted onto the image.

NLA Catalogue (incorrect information)
Part of collection: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874.; Gunson Collection file 203/7/54.;
Title from inscription on reverse. Two copies of the same image, one of which has been hand coloured.;
Condition: Foxing lower left and right and upper left.; Inscription: title and "71"--In ink on reverse.
Source: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142917410

The prison scarf was painted onto the prisoner's neck.

Walter Johnstone aka Henry Bramall aka Taylor
NLA Collection: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-142917410

Vignette on left, not tinted but mounted, and hand-tinted mounted cdv
Original prisoner mugshots by T. J. Nevin 1874
Photos recto and verso taken at the National Library of Australia, 7th Feb 2015
Photos copyright © KLW NFC 2015 ARR. Watermarked.

POLICE and PRISON RECORDS

https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON37-1-5p147
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON37-1-5p344
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON94-1-1p592
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON18-1-38p7
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON14-1-24/CON14-1-24P94
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/CON16-1-4/CON16-1-4P34

Source: Archives Office of Tasmania

The photograph of Taylor aka Bramall or Johnston(e) was taken by T. J. Nevin at the Hobart Gaol during the prisoner's incarceration. He was sentenced to 10 years in October 1867 at the Supreme Court Launceston for housebreaking, and transferred to Hobart. The hand coloured cdv by Nevin's studio was placed in his shop window to assist the public in recognition and recapture of the prisoner when he absconded on February 6, 1874 from a gang at the Cascade factory. Further information regarding his capture is not readily discoverable from police gazettes after this date.

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

Walter Johnstone aka Henry Bramall or Taylor absconded, reported February 6, 1874.

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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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This weblog pays respect to the ancestors and elders past, present, and emerging of the first Australian peoples and acknowledges their continued connection to land, sea and culture as the traditional custodians of this country.

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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