Miners Head Group of Miners Posing during the 1870's on the Gulgong Goldfields of the 1870's GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 13 - DISCOVERY OF THE HOLTERMANN COLLECTION

Gold Rush Stories - Part 13 - Discovery Of The Holtermann Collection

Mayne Street Gulgong NSW Gold Rush town of the 1870's GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 13 - DISCOVERY OF THE HOLTERMANN COLLECTION
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In 1951 one of the most significant discoveries of historical images from Australia’s Gold Rush era was uncovered in a Chatswood garden shed, safely preserved for decades by descendants of Bernhardt Holtermann, the famed discoverer of the Holtermann Nugget then, and still, the world’s largest gold nugget at Hill End on 19 October 1872.

References
https://livingartlifestyle.com/blogs/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette-part-3-streets-paved-with-gold 

 

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann gold nugget, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872 https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148020196
B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann gold nugget, Hill End, New South Wales, ca.1872
https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148020196

 

Bernard Otto Holtermann with a gold-quartz specimen discovered in 1872, North Sydney, composite portrait 1872-1876, attrib. Charles Bayliss/Beaufoy Merlin, from glass-plate negative, State Library of New South Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhardt_Holtermann#/media/File:B.O._Holtermann_with_the_Holtermann_Nugget,_North_Sydney,_1874-1876_?_-_American_&_Australasian_Photographic_Company_(8575721367).jpg
Bernard Otto Holtermann with a gold-quartz specimen discovered in 1872, North Sydney, composite portrait 1872-1876, attrib. Charles Bayliss/Beaufoy Merlin, from glass-plate negative, State Library of New South Wales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhardt_Holtermann#/media/File:B.O._Holtermann_with_the_Holtermann_Nugget,_North_Sydney,_1874-1876_?_-_American_&_Australasian_Photographic_Company_(8575721367).jpg

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Historical image from the 1800's of a Miners Head in Bendigo Victoria during the Gold Rush GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 11 - CONJECTURE SURROUNDING THE GOLD DISCOVERY

B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE1250227&_ga=2.252346761.1665584019.1640475917-450598828.1639198000
B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget
https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE1250227&_ga=2.252346761.1665584019.1640475917-450598828.1639198000
Holtermann's Nugget  https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13885418?keyword=Holtermann%20nugget
Holtermann's Nugget
 https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/13885418?keyword=Holtermann%20nugget

 

Saluting the Miners Historical painting of Edward Hargraves GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 10 - THE DISCOVERY OF PAYABLE GOLD BY EDWARD HARGRAVES IN 1851

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Holtermann family : photographs mainly of Sydney belonging to Bernard Otto Holtermann, ca. 1873-ca. 1879ca. 1873- ca. 1879 https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/holtermann-family-photographs-mainly-sydney-belonging-bernard-otto-holtermann-ca
Holtermann family : photographs mainly of Sydney belonging to Bernard Otto Holtermann, ca. 1873-ca. 1879ca. 1873- ca. 1879
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/holtermann-family-photographs-mainly-sydney-belonging-bernard-otto-holtermann-ca
Bernard Otto Holtermann
Bernard Otto Holtermann
Mitchell Library SLNSW

 

 

View of buildings and Beaufoy Merlin's mobile photographic studio standing in Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales, ca.1872 https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148037852
View of buildings and Beaufoy Merlin's mobile photographic studio standing in Mudgee Road, Tambaroora, New South Wales, ca.1872
https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148037852

 

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Beaufoy Merlin http://www.photo-web.com.au/keastburke/apr53-03/APR-merlin06.htm
Beaufoy Merlin
http://www.photo-web.com.au/keastburke/apr53-03/APR-merlin06.htm

 

Charles Bayliss, photographer, photographed in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne in 1886
Charles Bayliss, photographer, photographed in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne in 1886
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Bayliss,_photographer,_photographed_in_Fitzroy_Gardens,_Melbourne_in_1886.jpg

 

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1870 Gulgong - Herbert Street west side looking north from Mayne Street and showing Barnes' Chemist Shop Gulgong
1870 Gulgong - Herbert Street west side looking north from Mayne Street and showing Barnes' Chemist Shop Gulgong
https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ADLIB110094155&context=L&vid=SLNSW&search_scope=MOH&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

 

Opera House Gulgong 1871
Opera House Gulgong 1871
Mayne Street, Gulgong, looking east from Colonial Wines, C. Giugni jeweller, Prince of Wales Theatre, S.Green's Hairdressing Salon and Dillon's Hotel
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15209625?keyword=Opera%20House%20Gulgong%201871

 

Mine head & group of gold miners, Gulgong area - c1870-1875 - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - The Holterman Collection
Mine head & group of gold miners, Gulgong area - c1870-1875 - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - The Holterman Collection
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/15470243?keyword=Mine%20head%20%26%20group%20of%20gold%20miners,%20Gulgong%20area
All Nations Hotel, Gulgong  APR-154a-500  http://www.photo-web.com.au/keastburke/apr53-03/APR-merlin06.htm
All Nations Hotel, Gulgong
APR-154a-500
http://www.photo-web.com.au/keastburke/apr53-03/APR-merlin06.htm
The Joint Stock Bank, Gulgong, in 1871. Find out more about researching local history at the Royal Australian Historical Society seminar this month. [RAHS Manuscript Collection https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/2991185/historical-seminar-unearths-stories-of-the-past/
The Joint Stock Bank, Gulgong, in 1871. Find out more about researching local history at the Royal Australian Historical Society seminar this month. [RAHS Manuscript Collection
https://www.mudgeeguardian.com.au/story/2991185/historical-seminar-unearths-stories-of-the-past/
The Joint Stock Bank, Gulgong

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Horses and loaded wagon bogged in what was originally an alluvial test-hole outside William Mears' Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill End, New South Wales, winter 1872 https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148019647
Horses and loaded wagon bogged in what was originally an alluvial test-hole outside William Mears' Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill End, New South Wales, winter 1872
https://nla.gov.au:443/tarkine/nla.obj-148019647
Horse and cart bogged in what was originally a gold digging outside Meares flooded Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill End - c1872 The Holterman Collection
Horse and cart bogged in what was originally a gold digging outside Meares flooded Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill EndWinter 1872
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/collection-items/horse-and-cart-bogged-what-was-originally-gold-digging-outside-meares-flooded
Small gold minehead without shelter and seven miners, Gulgong 1872
Small gold minehead without shelter and seven miners, Gulgong 1872
a2824746h.jpg (960×743) (nsw.gov.au)

Bernard Holternman and the Holterman Nugget the largest gold nugget ever found GOLD RUSH STORIES PART 34 - HOW MUCH GOLD IS THERE?

Simmons' miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area  Simmons' (miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area - Trove (nla.gov.au)
Simmons' miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area
Simmons' (miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area - Trove (nla.gov.au)
Moses Bros Colonial Boot and Shoe Depot Gulgong
Moses Bros. Colonial Boot & Shoe Depot, Gulgong
https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=SLNSW&tab=default_tab&docid=ADLIB110039860&lang=en_US&context=L

Horse and cart bogged on the Main Street of the Gold Rush town of Hill End NSW during the 1870's GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 14 TO 17 - OLD PHOTOGRAPHS TELL THE STORY OF THE RUSH

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