Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne...
Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
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Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - ca. 3,500 images copied from glass negatives
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Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This collection is arranged by size of negative, from quarter plate to whole plate, then imperial, mammoth and finally 3 of the world’s largest wet plate negatives. The original negative numbers have been retained. Each negative has been catalogued individually.
BOX 1-5
Views of Gulgong
Includes some views of Hartley and Hill End
Alternative Titles
Full title
Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Notes
General note
Reference 35mm positive microfilm copies (3 reels) are located at CY 817 (BOX 1-9), CY 818 (BOX 10-14, 38, 40-60) and CY 819 (BOX 61-74). Copy negatives are at ONCY 25.
Master copy prints are filed at PXA 4998
Conservation note
Negatives cleaned, rehoused and rescanned 2011-2012 for digitisation project and exhibition "The greatest wonder of the world"
Description source
A guide compiled by Library Society Volunteers, 1980-1985, is available at PXD 533. This guide was used to catalogue the Holtermann collection and includes maps
Published information
For an account of `Holtermann's Exposition' by the photographer, Beaufoy Merlin, see 'Town and Country Journal', 27 Sept 1873.
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Administrative / Biographical history
A meeting between gold miner Bernard Otto Holtermann and photographer Beaufoy Merlin in Hill End in 1872 resulted in one of the most astonishing photographic documentations ever undertaken.
Holtermann had been associated with the recent discovery of the world’s largest specimen of reef gold, weighing 145 kilograms, extracted from the Star of Hop...
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Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
Ydme2jR9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Ydme2jR9
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Reference code
61874
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