Portraits by T.J. Nevin in The Lucy Batchelor Collection

A selection from the Lucy Batchelor Album of 1870s carte-de-visite portraits by Tasmanian photographer Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923).

Above: unknown young man ca 1873, photographed in Nevin’s studio at 140 Elizabeth St. Hobart Town. Stamped verso.

Above: possibly a Freemason, photographed by Nevin in his studio. The man here is standing next to Nevin’s big box tabletop stereograph viewer which features in two other Nevin cartes. Hand-tinted by subsequent owners of the carte. Verso is blank (?).

Above: unknown child with sprig of holly, photographed by Thomas Nevin late 1870s. Stamped verso. Hand-tinting with this red and green sprig motif appears in other cartes by Nevin.

Photographs courtesy of Robyn and Peter Bishop
Copyright © The Lucy Batchelor Collection 2009 Arr.
View the album at Picasa.

Australia Day or Invasion Day

Aborigines mark ‘invasion day’

Source: ABC News online

Tasmanian aborigines march in Hobart to protest against ‘invasion day’.

Members of Tasmania’s aboriginal community have marched through Hobart to protest against what they call ‘invasion day’.

About 100 aborigines carried flags, placards and wreaths as well as a mock coffin which they say symbolised what happened when Europeans arrived in Australia more than 200 years ago.

The group walked to Parliament House chanting, “You stole our land, you stole our rights and we won’t celebrate invasion day.”

A spokeswoman for the group Nala Mansell McKenna says the point of the march was to educate the wider public.

She says now that Mick Dodson has been made Australia of the Year, the Prime Minister should listen to his views on changing the date of Australian Day celebrations.