Page xiv ‘Landing of Convicts at Botany Bay’, from Captain Watkin Tench’s A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, first published in 1789.
Page xx Convicts embarking for Botany Bay, pen and wash by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia, Bib ID: 1738410.
Page 26 Convict uprising at Castle Hill, Sydney, watercolour, 1804, also known as the ‘Battle of Vinegar Hill’.
Page 52 ‘A Government Jail Gang, Sydney, N.S. Wales’. Inscription beneath says, ‘London, published August 10th 1830, by J. Cross, Holborn, opposite Furnivals Inn’ [sic]. Plate No. 3 of part 2 of ‘Views in New South Wales and Van Diemens Land’.
Page 74 Flogging prisoners, Tasmania. Pencil drawing from c. 1850s by James Reid Scott, 1839–77.
Page 100 ‘Relics of Convict Discipline’. Convict disciplinary articles: leg-irons, a ball and chain, handcuffs, whips (one of them a cat-o’-nine-tails), rifles and a sword. Photograph possibly by Australian photographer E.W. Searle while working for J.W. Beattie in Hobart during 1911–15.
Page 126 ‘Female Factory, Cascades’ in Hobart, Tasmania, from glass plate negatives and photographs collected by E.R. Pretyman over 1870–1930.
Page 156 ‘Bloodhounds on Eaglehawk Neck to prevent the escape of convicts’, Tasmania. Part of the collection of photographs compiled by Australian photographer E.W. Searle while working for J.W. Beattie in Hobart during 1911–1915. Courtesy of the National Library of Australia, Bib ID 4556400.
Page 180 Moondyne Joe, (Joseph Bolitho Johns, 1830–1900). This is the only known photograph of him. He stands holding a tomahawk and wearing a kangaroo skin cape. The original photograph was taken by Alfred Chopin and first published in the Sunday Times on 27 May 1924, illustrating an article on Moondyne Joe by Charles William Ferguson.
Page 204 ‘Hobart Town Chain Gang’. Photographic record of a black and white print, part of J.W. Beattie’s collection, ‘Beattie’s snapshots, Tasmania’, ca. 1900s.
Page 232 Eliza James (Mrs Joseph Small), convict on the Anna Maria, which arrived in Tasmania 26th January, 1852. This photograph is part of a miscellaneous collection of photographs from 1860–1992.
Page 252 ‘Gentlemen convicts at work and the convict “centiped” Port Arthur 1836. Beattie: Hobart 5918’. Shows close-ranked convicts carrying a long log on their shoulders during fence construction. This is a photograph of an original artwork from the J.W. Beattie collection, ‘Albums of photographs of Tasmania, 1820–1860’.