Research Blog

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 […]

When the great, great grandson of Sun Tong Lee visited the Gulgong Holtermann Museum he said, “Apparently Sun Tong Lee owned many stores in NSW and it is unlikely that […]

The Crystal Fountain Cordial Factory was located on Herbert Street next to John Hunter’s Boot Store on the corner of Herbert and Mayne. In addition to selling cordial, the premises […]