Agency:
Joseph James Nathaniel Barnett (Jjn Barnett) [Photographer]
Agency Number:
Start Date:
14 Dec 1882
End Date:
13 May 1977
Description:
JJN Barnett was a professional photographer undertaking private work as well as work for local newspapers the Examiner and the Mercury. Earlier in his career Barnett operated from Glenorchy, photographing the Claremont Army Camp. In 1927 he opened a studio at 115 Liverpool Street, Hobart. Barnett was an official Tasmanian war correspondent in WWII. His business card from the 1950s describes him as a commercial and portrait photographer specialising in outdoor groups and portraits. He retired in 1959. Barnett was born in Hobart in 1882 to Edward Barnett (a Carrier/delivery man) and Margaret Leach. He married Bertha Elizabeth Drewett in 1905 and they had a son Edward Joseph (b.1905) and a daughter Laura (b.1907). Bertha passed away in 1946.
Information Sources:
AD960/1/162 No.63616; Tasmanian Philatelic Society website, accessed 6/2/2020; Headstone Project website; NAA: B4717.
Functions Performed:
Arts and culture
Series Created By Agency:
| NS3305 Photograph Album of Aerial Views of Tasmania by J.J.N Barnett | 01 Jan 1930 | 31 Dec 1939 |
| NS4894 Loose Aerial Photographs of Tasmania | 01 Jan 1938 | 31 Dec 1938 |