11 - Holtermann Museum

Peter Solness – ‘Holtermann Projections’

EventsJune 11, 2023164Views

Henry Beaufoy Merlin impersonator (Peter Solness) and assistant, Charles Bayliss (Jane Collins) participated in the 2023 Henry Lawson Heritage Festival within their "Projection Walking Tour" featuring Holtermann photos taken in Gulgong. This one-off night event was a great success and featured photographs taken during the…

Women of the Gulgong Goldfield

ResearchMarch 8, 2023210Views

Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day, so let’s take a look at some of the women of the Holtermann Collection. Many are working class women who raised children and ran businesses like produce stores or hotels, while their husband’s mined for gold. Others are…

Pullen

Museum ConnectionsFebruary 12, 2023129Views

Imagine having such a trail-blazing life as a pioneer that when summing it up you barely mention that you were the Pullen - of Pullen & Rawsthorne fame - who designed and operated the stamper battery that crushed Holtermann’s quartz to extract his considerable gold finds! Such…

Melkjoer Mystery

ResearchFebruary 7, 2023160Views

A number of photos in the Holtermann collection have not been identified. Some are attributed to Gulgong or Home Rule but captioned by the State Library with an additional question mark. This week I set out to solve one of those mysteries.

Water Woes

ResearchFebruary 6, 2023199Views

The approaching summer of 1871 was an unpleasant time on the Gulgong goldfield. Two aspects of the dry hot weather caused major problems for miners and townsfolk - dust and filth - as these newspaper snippets attest: ‘Down with the dust’ is now the universal…

Spiro Bennett

Museum ConnectionsJanuary 17, 2023168Views

When Spiro and Ann Bennett (nee Carroll) posed for this photo in front of their shop in 1872, they can hardly have imagined that life-sized cut outs from the same image would be standing in the American Tobacco Warehouse on Mayne Street over 150 years…

Golden Age

ResearchJanuary 11, 2023138Views

With the discovery of payable gold on Red Hill in 1870, came opportunities for all. No matter who you were or where you came from, if you could get to Gulgong you had a chance to find "wondrous treasure". And it was a golden age for hoteliers.…

Yearly Archives: 2023

Peter Solness – ‘Holtermann Projections’

Women of the Gulgong Goldfield

Pullen

Melkjoer Mystery

Water Woes

Spiro Bennett

Golden Age