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Holtermann family and their Post Office Hotel, York Street, Sydney

Holtermann family and their Post Office Hotel, York Street, Sydney

1874
Glass photonegative

This was one of the first photographs taken by Bayliss with a rare mammoth-plate camera purchased by Holtermann, which took images on 18 x22 inch [ 40 x 60 cm] glass plates. Holtermann purchased the hotel in York Street for £4090 and is said to have entertained his old mining friends from Hill End there.

From the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser, 28 October 1876

An American paper, the Burlington Hawkeye, has the following amusing notice of the arrival in Burlington, Io., of Mr B. O. Holtermann and family, and the birth there of "a native Australian." ' There was a native Australian born in Burlington yesterday, and whether he is an American of German descent or an Australian of American extraction, or a citizen of Germany with Australian ancestors, will be a question for some joint high commission to settle the first time he is drafted. [Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser, 28 October 1876]