2022

Gulgong is so lucky to have been recorded in both the photographs of Beaufoy Merlin (known as the Holtermann Collection) and in the poetry and stories of Henry Lawson. There […]

This story has enough intrigue for a Netflix biopic, but don’t worry, Blanchard was an actual butcher and not a serial killer or blood-thirsty murderer. He was so nice, in […]

The Research Department received an interesting challenge this week: Could we locate a business named “A Collins & Co” of Bathurst in the Holtermann Collection? The business was known to […]

Richard and Mary Angove had a hardware, grocery and wine store on Mayne Street, between the Bank of New South Wales and the Newmarket Sale Yards (where the Butcher Shop […]

Research into the Holtermann Collection can be like trying to complete a very large jigsaw puzzle under nightmarish conditions: many pieces fall into place beautifully but as you approach the […]

As Henry Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss made their way around the streets of Gulgong in 1872 – documenting the people and their homes and businesses – one mysterious figure […]

Mrs Gribble was renting this property from George Anthony Tissington, a photographer and commission agent in Gulgong, while he was chasing gold in Queensland. On 14 August 1872 a fire […]

David Sciffer wrote the following to GHM: This carte-de-visite is of the first premises of McLaughlin’s Bakery in High Street, Maitland. (Handwritten note on reverse says “business near Town Hall, […]

Trevor Williams wrote the following to the GHM: To the Wonderful Staff, I found the Holtermann photo of Mary Mackillop’s Cottage on the State Library web site. Photo and catalogue information […]