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Exciting Holtermann news from Germany

NewsJanuary 24, 202444Views

The Gulgong Holtermann Museum is proud to announce its association with the BallinStadt Emigration Museum which was brought about by the installation of the new Bernhard Otto Holtermann exhibit in Hamburg in December 2023. This interesting Museum presents the history of German immigration and emigration spanning four eras. …

Women of the Gulgong Goldfield

ResearchMarch 8, 202324Views

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…

Water Woes

ResearchFebruary 6, 202340Views

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, 202315Views

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…

Blanchard The Butcher

ResearchDecember 2, 202218Views

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 fact, that he went on to be Mayor of Gulgong! Alfred Blanchard can be seen in at…

Thiodon’s Exhibition

ResearchNovember 11, 202211Views

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 kept cropping up: Thiodon! a2822215 - Tuckerman's Hotel, Gulgong a2822103 - Rossiter's Hotel, Gulgong a2822084 - Cooney's Hotel, Gulgong Posters…