The Greatest Wonder of the World, Gulgong 1872
\nGulgong underwent rapid change in early 1871 and the Gulgong Guardian, 25 February 1871, noted the improvements: 'Moses Brothers, owners of the famed ‘Greatest Wonder of the World’ clothing establishments, which can be found on the leading goldfields of New Zealand, New South Wales and Queensland, have a branch next to the Golden Age Hotel in which they will exhibit their usual stock of clothing etc.'
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\nIn this 1875 studio portrait, Holtermann supports his hand on a photographer’s headrest, used to steady the subject during lengthy exposures. This image was combined with an 1872 photograph of ‘Holtermann’s nugget’ to produce a montage of Holtermann with his gold specimen. Holtermann had escaped military service in Prussia, emigrating to Sydney in 1858. Not speaking English, he took a range of menial jobs, before prospecting with Louis Beyers on Hawkins Hill in 1861.
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\nGenerally regarded as the world’s largest specimen of reef gold, the Holtermann nugget was extracted from Beyer and Holtermann’s Star of Hope goldmine at Hawkins Hill on 19 October 1872. Weighing 286 kg, the quartz mass contained an estimated 57 kg of gold. It took 12 men with crowbars and a horse to lift it to the surface, where it was photographed by Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss of the American and Australasian Photographic Company. A larger specimen was found four months later in the same mine. Contrary to local legend, it was taken to the surface intact by 16 miners, but was never photographed.
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\nThis is a montage of three photographs - Holtermann with his hand on a photographer’s head rest in 1875, the nugget as it was in 1872 and a background of the verandah of Holtermann’s house at St Leonards, also taken in 1875. There are at least three variations of this montage, including one used as the label on Holtermann’s Life Drops patent medicine. Interestingly, the engraved image on his business card and the stained glass window in his house were both derived from the only genuine photograph of Holtermann standing beside the nugget in October 1872.
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\nA month before discovery of the 286 kg 'Holtermann nugget', Bernhardt Holtermann (second from left) Richard Ormsby Kerr (centre) and Louis Beyers (fourth from left) posed with 3663 oz [114 kg] of gold specimens from their claim. Worth around $6.5million today, the specimens were described by the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 September 1872 as 'almost without rival - magnificent - the talk of this town, where specimens are not unknown.'
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\nMost photographs of Holtermann posing with the gold specimen named after him are montages of two or more photographs. However, this image is genuine. Close examination of the negative shows that it is a copy of the original, with extensive retouching on the emulsion side. Holtermann may not have liked the awkward perspective of his feet and commissioned Charles Bayliss to make the later montages.
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\nThis view of Hawkins Hill was taken by Beaufoy Merlin, who erected his camera more than a kilometre away across a gully nearly 300 metres deep. Just left of centre of the image are the twin buildings and two-storied structure of Beyers and Holtermann’s Star of Hope, which employed 23 miners. The claims along this hill extracted 12.4 tonnes of gold.
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\nThe outlook from the tower of Holtermann’s mansion at St Leonards was spectacular. According to the British Journal of Photography, 4 February 1876 'perhaps from no other spot in the colony can such a magnificent view be obtained as from this elevation. For miles around the eye rests upon one splendid panorama of natural and artificial scenery, not to be exceeded for beauty by any place in the world.' This view across Lavender Bay is one section of a panorama taken by Charles Bayliss with Holtermann’s help in 1875.
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\nThis 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.
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\nWhen the Governor, Lord Belmore, returned to Britain in February 1872, he sold his equipages to a livery stable keeper in Sydney. The newly rich Holtermann bought the vice-regal carriage, complete with a pair of showy grey horses and silver-plated harness and took it to Hill End, where his band escorted him through town playing ‘See, the Conquering Hero Comes’.
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\nHenry Beaufoy Merlin had a range of names (Murlin, Muriel, Merling) and a range of jobs (journalist, theatre owner, actor, lecturer and illusionist), before taking up photography in Victoria in 1864. He travelled north with his assistant, Charles Bayliss, as the American and Australasian Photographic Company and reached Sydney in 1870. They developed a unique style of photography, recording every building in the towns they visited. His association with Holtermann in Hill End in 1872 gave rise to a remarkable visual documentation of NSW and Victoria. He died, aged 43, the following year.
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\nThe American and Australasian Photographic Company established a studio in Tambaroora Street, Hill End, in 1872. Beaufoy Merlin’s assistant, Charles Bayliss, stands, hands in pockets, in the doorway, with studio operator James Clinton behind him. Among the group of curious miners who have chosen to be part of the tableau is the driver of Merlin’s outdoor photographic van (to Bayliss’ right).
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\nBeaufoy Merlin’s photographic perambulations between Dubbo and Bathurst led him to Carcoar on the road to Cowra. His photographic van is parked at the foot of the slope opposite the Carcoar Hotel and the Public School in Belubula Street. The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 February 1876 described Carcoar as 'one of the oldest and, for its size, wealthiest inland towns in the colony. During the past two months its inhabitants have been benefited considerably by the great influx of population to this gold-field, but ordinarily the place is exceedingly quiet and monotonous.'
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\nThis otherwise unremarkable view of Mair Street, Ballarat West, is notable for the long shadows cast on the roadway by the winter sun. They reveal the silhouettes of photographer Charles Bayliss with his 10 x 12 inch [25 x 30 cm] camera on tripod, together with his horse and photographic van. Also in Ballarat at this time was Bernhardt Holtermann, who was visiting the School of Mines and probably checking on his Exposition photographer.
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\nHoltermann’s residence on 8 acres [2.5 hectares] at St Leonards was described as ‘fit for a nobleman’. When Holtermann died in 1885, the mansion was bought by the Anglican Church and became part of the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. The tower from which Bayliss made his panoramas was encased by bricks in the 1930s and the building, although still in the school grounds, has now been altered beyond recognition.
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\nPullen and Rawsthorne's Little Wonder Stamper Battery was situated opposite the southern end of Clarke Street. Built by Sydney engineering firm PN Russell, it featured a 20 hp [15 Kw-h] steam engine driving a 15 head stamper, delivering 1050 blows a minute. It crushed the famous ‘Holtermann nugget’. Nearly 40 years later, William Pullen described the event in the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 1912. It was with this battery I crushed Beyer and Holtermann's rich ore. It was Holtermann and myself that broke up the rich lump of reef, and crushed it with some 11 tons [10 tonnes] of ore from the same vein. The yield was 11,000 oz [312 g] in one cake.
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\nIn June 1874, Charles Bayliss made a nine-part panorama of Ballarat from the Town Hall clock tower, with a mammoth plate camera, producing negatives 45 cm square. The clock chimes were stopped to reduce vibration during the exposures. This view looks south-west across Armstrong and Doveton streets to the great pitheads of the Winters Freehold Company to the left, along the horizon to the ornate tower of the Benevolent Asylum and the pitheads of the Western Ballarat field.
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\nThe French Industrial Exhibition and Camellia Show opened in the Exhibition Hall, Prince Alfred Park, on 21 June 1875. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, 26 June 1875: 'The exhibits generally partake more of the ornamental than the useful; in fact the Exhibition may be compared to a grand fancy bazaar … In the centre of the main court, next to the fountain, is a case of coloured tarlatans, which were examined with very much interest by lady visitors. These fabrics were of most excellent workmanship. The boots and shoes shown call for no special remark. They cannot compare with the generality of colonial workmanship.'
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\nThis view from Dawes Battery, past Campbell’s Wharf to Circular Quay, can be dated to early-mid September 1873, as the Haddon Hall from London is loading for San Francisco at Campbell's wharf. Behind it is Aviemore and the ship in the background, in front of Customs House, is La Hogue. Both Aviemore and La Hogue left for London on 13 September 1873. Sadly, this must be one of the last photographs taken by Merlin. He contracted pneumonia and died a fortnight later, aged 43, on 27 September 1873.
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\nThe Empire, 28 May 1872, commented on the temporary nature of buildings in Gulgong: 'The shops and public-houses are, for the most part, of a very temporary and unsubstantial character, considered as buildings. A large proportion of them are capable of being removed, piecemeal, and set up again on a new diggings in the event of Gulgong declining in prosperity, and a rush taking place to another field within a day or two's journey'.
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\nThe public funeral of Commodore James Goodenough, who was killed on the island of Santa Cruz, took place at North Sydney on 24 August. It was one of the largest funerals seen in the colony. The steam ferry Transit ferried the bodies of Goodenough and two sailors killed in the same skirmish, from HMS Pearl to Milsons Point, where the cortege proceeded by foot to North Sydney Cemetery. In the background can be seen Commodore Goodenough’s flagship HMS Pearl with crossed yards, laid up in Farm Cove.
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\nThis photograph records the waterfront clutter at East Circular Quay in September 1873. In the foreground, delivery vehicles, including a baker’s cart from Patrick Freehill’s bakery in North George Street, queue to board the Milsons Point paddle steamer Transit. On the right is the castellated tower of Fort Macquarie, demolished in 1901 for the electric tram sheds, which in turn were demolished for the Sydney Opera House in 1958. Barely visible in the right background is HMS Clio, which left Sydney in October 1873.
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\nMerlin was pleased with this photograph of the French ironclad Atalante in Fitzroy Dock. In the Town and Country Journal, 23 August 1873, he wrote: Probably there is no one more difficult to please in procuring a picture of this kind than the landscape photographer himself. I may therefore be permitted to say in behalf of the one referred to, that it gave me satisfaction. With a crew of 316, Atalante had an impressive armament, including six massive 194 mm breech-loading guns, four in a central battery below deck and two in barbettes on the upper deck. These could hurl a 75 kg shell over seven kilometres. At the bottom of the photograph is the solid brass ramming bow, weighing 20 tonnes.
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\nCompleted in December 1861, the Glebe Island Bridge connected the city to the Edmund Blacket designed stone buildings of Glebe Island Abattoirs. Not surprisingly, Glebe and Balmain residents complained constantly of the smell and the abattoir featured prominently in the 1882 Royal Commission into noxious and offensive trades. The government banned the boiling down of offal in 1883 and eventually the abattoirs were moved to Homebush.
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\nQuiet during the day, the city could change at night. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 1873, of the arrest of several sailors seems remarkably restrained. 'A \"difficulty’ arose yesterday evening in Hunter-street, between some sailors belonging to HMS Blanche and the police. One of the city constables received a blow on the head which drove the colour from his cheeks, whereupon he drew his baton and defended himself with much judgment and moderation.' A gas lamp stood outside the original 1856 Sydney Morning Herald offices to the left, on the corner of O’Connell, Hunter and Pitt streets. Further up Hunter Street, past the blur of a horse-drawn vehicle, can be seen the twin towers of the Iron Church, at the intersection of Hunter and Macquarie streets, now the site of the State Library of NSW.
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\nThis view, looking east along Darling Street, is recognisable today, with the group of buildings to the left, on the corner of Curtis Road, virtually unchanged. In the distance can be seen St Mary’s Anglican Church, on the corner of Stack Street, East Balmain.
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\nJames Jaye, his wife Mary and employees were photographed outside his tinsmith and tank-making shop and factory, at the corner of George and Howick streets, Bathurst, where, according to the Empire, 5 April 1873: ‘Mr Merlin is photographing Bathurst for Holtermann’s Exposition’. Tinsmiths made household utensils by hand, but the trade disappeared with the introduction of cheaper, mass-produced goods.
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\nHoltermann’s Exposition included panoramas. This is a four-part panorama of north Yass, taken from the west across the Yass River. Merlin and Bayliss had passed through the town four years earlier on their journey from Melbourne to Sydney.
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\nHoltermann’s Exposition included panoramas. This is a four-part panorama of north Yass, taken from the west across the Yass River. Merlin and Bayliss had passed through the town four years earlier on their journey from Melbourne to Sydney.
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\nHoltermann’s Exposition included panoramas. This is a four-part panorama of north Yass, taken from the west across the Yass River. Merlin and Bayliss had passed through the town four years earlier on their journey from Melbourne to Sydney.
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\nHoltermann’s Exposition included panoramas. This is a four-part panorama of north Yass, taken from the west across the Yass River. Merlin and Bayliss had passed through the town four years earlier on their journey from Melbourne to Sydney.
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\nThis is probably the temporary works of itinerant brickmakers George and William Wood on the banks of the Belubula River. Hand-made bricks were still made in rural Australia into the twentieth century. The brickmaker stood at the moulding table for 12 to 14 hours a day and with the help of assistants could make 3500 to 5000 bricks in a day from clay quarried nearby. The moulded bricks were left to dry in an area called a ‘hack’ or ‘hackstead’ and the bricks were covered with straw to protect them from rain or harsh sun. After two weeks, the bricks could be fired.
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\nThis early morning view up Bourke Street, with its shuttered shops, is taken from Elizabeth Street, with the original General Post Office on the left. On the right is a coffee stall complete with cups and saucers, with a milk van beside it making a delivery. Coffee stalls were a popular part of Melbourne nightlife. They operated from 8 pm to 8 am until October 1874, when the mayor closed them from midnight to 4 am, as they were considered to be meeting places for criminals. For 6d, customers received a cup of coffee, saveloy, potato and buttered bread roll. Another coffee stall can be seen further up Bourke Street, on the corner of Swanston Street.
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\nLocated at the mouth of the Yarra, Williamstown was Melbourne’s first port. By 1870 it had become the major cargo port of Victoria. However, a plan by locals to have Queen Victoria’s son Alfred visit the colony via Williamstown was met with derision. As one correspondent commented in the Argus, 20 September 1867: 'The hamlet of Williamstown is stark staring mad … The idea of the Prince being condemned to arrive in Melbourne via the Williamstown Railway … and his first impressions of Victorian scenery fated to be visions of the back premises and outhouses of the denizens of the dismal swamp, is worthy of the brains of men reared amongst seagulls and graving docks.'
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\nAfter the death of Beaufoy Merlin in 1873, Bernhardt Holtermann engaged Merlin’s assistant, 24-year-old Charles Bayliss, to continue taking photographs for his planned exposition. This view of Pall Mall, from Hadley’s City Family Hotel, was taken by Bayliss in April 1874, using a mammoth camera which took glass plates measuring 18 x 22 inches [46 x 56 cm]. Three months before this photograph, the entire stock of Hadley’s City Family Hotel was sold, including De Venoge, Moet, Roederer, Krug and Wachter champagnes.
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\nBuckland Valley, near Bright in north-eastern Victoria, was the site of an alluvial gold rush. However, as the finds diminished, Chinese miners arrived to sift the abandoned claims. Tensions between the 2000 Chinese and 700 Anglo-Irish miners resulted in the Buckland Riots of 1857, in which three Chinese miners were killed and 2000 fled. The riot was eventually quelled by Beechworth police, led by Robert O’Hara Burke.
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\nThis is part of a panorama of Ballarat taken by Charles Bayliss from the tower of the Town Hall in June 1874. It looks north to the colonnades of Ballarat Railway Station, built in 1862. Over to the right, on the horizon, are the mullock heaps of the Black Hill goldmines.
Mark Twain, who visited in 1895, was impressed by the town’s rebellious history, but less than impressed by the vista. ‘There is nothing like surface-mining to snatch the graces and beauties and benignities out of a paradise, and make an odious and repulsive spectacle of it.’ At the bottom left is the Good Templars’ Hall, where Ballarat’s temperance advocates met. Apparently they had some influence in town, because in 1872, the City of Ballarat Company’s new pumping engine was christened by them with soda water, instead of champagne.
Goldmine, Bendigo 1874
\nThis is the unusual, six-legged poppet head of the Clarence United mine in Eaglehawk, 6 km from Bendigo. Because of the difficulty and expense of mining quartz reefs at depths over 1000 metres, public companies were formed. Clarence United was just one of over 800 company mines in the Bendigo area, which from 1851 to 1954 produced a total of 860 tonnes of gold.
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\nHill End in 1872 was a gold town at its peak and October 1872 was a memorable month. On Friday 4th, locals woke to 18 inches of snow and a view that was ‘quite English’. On the evening of the 18th, an earthquake shook everyone wide awake just before 7 pm and a spectacular red Aurora Australis was visible over the town. On the following day, the evening shift at the Star of Hope mine unearthed the largest specimen of reef gold ever found.
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\nHill End in 1872 was a gold town at its peak and October 1872 was a memorable month. On Friday 4th, locals woke to 18 inches of snow and a view that was ‘quite English’. On the evening of the 18th, an earthquake shook everyone wide awake just before 7 pm and a spectacular red Aurora Australis was visible over the town. On the following day, the evening shift at the Star of Hope mine unearthed the largest specimen of reef gold ever found.
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\nIn 1861, Hill End's first census revealed a settled village of 36 dwellings with a population of 124, consisting of 76 males (24 married) and 48 females. By 1872, when this photograph was made, an estimated 7000 people lived in and around the town, including about 1200 underground miners, of whom one-third were Cornish. Hill End’s population in 2006 was just 166. Typical of a boom-and-bust gold town, every building in this photograph has disappeared, the scene now being a grassy yard behind a rickety wooden fence.
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\nThe road in front of William Meare’s Criterion Store subsided in the winter of 1872 to form a bog. The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1872, described the scene: 'As regards the mud in Clark-street, I never have heard an exaggeration. No, to Clark-street I will give the palm for mud and the ill manner it is laid out. It possesses three remarkable features, being narrow, crooked, and filthy … '
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\nThe Australian Town and Country Journal, 16 March 1872, described this scene: ' … on the left stands a branch of Mr. Barnes's chemist shop. But walk leisurely down the street and you will find it flanked on each side by public houses, Chinese eating-houses, Chinese stores, a few European drapery and general stores, billiard-saloons, and fruit-shops. The lower part of Herbert-street is considered to be the Seven Dials (a notorious London slum) of Gulgong; and some queer scenes take place there all night long … Where you were standing the loafers and spongers of the place assemble in hundreds by day and by night.'
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\nDespite the wealth generated by alluvial gold mining, few buildings in Gulgong were substantial. According to the Australian Town and Country Journal, 27 January 1872: 'The buildings are all composed of wood, calico, or bark, presenting strange contrasts by the variety of colours and designs. The finest building is certainly the new Roman Catholic Church just completed, and reflecting great credit on that congregation.' The building cost £700, which was raised by the Reverend JO Donovan and ‘his energetic parishioners’ in a few weeks.
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\nDespite the wealth generated by alluvial gold mining, few buildings in Gulgong were substantial. According to the Australian Town and Country Journal, 27 January 1872: 'The buildings are all composed of wood, calico, or bark, presenting strange contrasts by the variety of colours and designs. The finest building is certainly the new Roman Catholic Church just completed, and reflecting great credit on that congregation. 'The building cost £700, which was raised by the Reverend JO Donovan and ‘his energetic parishioners’ in a few weeks.
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\nOnly eight kilometres from Gulgong, the Canadian Lead was an alluvial field of deep washdirt and easy digging. The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1872, recorded the rush: '… the Canadian lead where a month ago some four hundred people were, can now boast of a couple of thousands. The Gulgong diggings may be fairly said to be spread over eight square miles.'
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\nThis idyllic bush scene is the result of at least five attempts by the photographer to portray this miner’s wattle and daub hut in a painterly manner. The reality is his other negatives reveal the hut was directly across the mill pond from Peterson’s stamper battery on Oakey Creek. The noisy battery crushed gold-bearing quartz from the mines of nearby Nuggetty Gully on Lower Hawkins Hill, 24 hours a day, except Sunday.
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\nThis is Edward McGaurr’s sawpit in Medley Street, which supplied timber for the town. As the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 1872, noted: 'In a week, as if by magic, stores, inns, theatres, shops, butcheries and bakeries - all the trading component parts of a large town arose; claims were marked out; windlasses swung; sawyers, splitters, labourers of all kinds, thronged the ground, and in a wonderfully short time many claims were ‘on the gold’, and ‘all went merry as a marriage bell.’
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\nWilliam Collins described the devastation caused by Gulgong miners in the Maitland Mercury, 16 May 1872. 'When I arrived upon the diggings, and beheld the beautiful grazing country torn up with diggers, and hillocks of dug up earth the size of houses, I must confess that the strange sight made me feel quite wretched and miserable, as I had been used to seeing such country covered with sheep, cattle and horses.'
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\nIf running water was available, the most efficient method of separating gold from washdirt was to process it through a sluice or ‘long tom’. The running water broke up the paydirt and washed away the lighter sands and gravel, leaving the gold caught in the horizontal strips of wood called ‘riffles’ built across the sluice box.
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\nThe monster Holtermann gold specimen was crushed at Pullen and Rawsthorne’s new battery, seen here surrounded by cords of timber to power its steam engine and a pond to supply water to its machinery. Situated on the corner of Clarke and Church streets, it was the most modern in Hill End, operating fifteen heads of stampers, each weighing 4½ cwt [229kg]. A fifteen horsepower [11,1855 kW] engine noisily drove the stampers at seventy blows per minute, 24 hours a day, except Sunday. An old miner, writing of Hawkins Hill in the Barrier Miner, 27 March 1911, said that it was his custom: '… to wait for the hour of midnight on Saturday, when the public batteries ceased working on the striking of the town-clock, and the ravines of the Turon would reverberate with the music of the dollies, which within a few minutes would also stop. For the hour had struck, and then silence would brood over the primeval wilderness.'
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2824810.xml","title":"Pullen and Rawsthorne's stamper battery at the southern end of Clarke Street, Hill End -- [the battery which crushed the Holtermann Nugget - Lois Carrington (Oct 2005)]","collection":"","dziWidth":"9429","dziHeight":"7874","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=63297","assetfilename":"item_00048.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 49 No 12","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2824810"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2825334","description":"Pullen and Rawsthorne’s 15 head stamper, Hill End 1872
\nPullen and Rawsthorne's Little Wonder Stamper Battery was situated opposite the southern end of Clarke Street. Built by Sydney engineering firm PN Russell, it featured a 20hp [15 Kw-h] steam engine driving a 15 head stamper, delivering 1050 blows a minute. It crushed the famous ‘Holtermann nugget’. Nearly 40 years later, William Pullen described the event in the Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 1911: 'It was with this battery I crushed Beyer and Holtermann's rich ore. It was Holtermann and myself that broke up the rich lump of reef, and crushed it with some 11 tons [10 tonnes] of ore from the same vein. The yield was 11,000 oz [342 kg] in one cake.'
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\nA correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 1872, was surprised by the appearance of Hawkins Hill: 'The ‘claims’ of Hawkins Hill do not at all answer to one's preconceptions of a gold mine, for which perhaps £150,000 [more than the construction cost of Government House, Melbourne] have been paid. A few sheets of bark or of corrugated iron, to keep the rain off, is all that is visible of the far-famed Beyers and Holterman's or Krohmann's. The entire property consists, on an average, of about a hundred feet of space. Claims are as close together as a row of huts in a back street … '
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\nJudging by their accommodation, these are ‘new chums’ or recently arrived miners. Their accommodation around Hill End was described in the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 1872: ' … the hillsides east and west are thickly studded with mud huts, calico tents, stumps of old gum trees, and enormous mounds of yellow clay … the dwellings, as a rule, would hardly come up to ordinary ideas of comfort.'
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\nEnglish novelist Anthony Trollope visited the Gulgong goldfield in October 1871 and described its miners: 'Of the men around me some were miners working for wages and some were shareholders, each probably with a large stake in the concern. I could not in the least tell which was which. They were all dressed alike … The yellow, clay-stained fustian trousers which have never made and never will make acquaintance with the wash-tub, invest the lower extremities of every two men out of three … ' Miners working for wages were paid from £2 10s to £3 a week.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2824746.xml","title":"Small gold minehead without shelter and seven miners, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"10399","dziHeight":"8044","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=63216","assetfilename":"item_00052.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 43 No [18]","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["mines"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2824746"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822380","description":"Gulgong mining 1872
\nMuch of the land around the richest veins on the Gulgong field was Crown land, meaning a miner had only to pay 10s for a miner’s right to own any gold from his claim. A rush was inevitable. In 1872, Gulgong sent 134,500 oz. [4.2 tonnes] gold to the Mint, while Tambaroora and Hill End sent only 75,000 oz [2.3 tonnes]. As the Sydney Morning Herald, 31 March 1873, commented: 'It is a peculiarity of this field, that as soon as one ‘shallow rush’, where the gold can be picked out like potatoes subsides at a depth of from 30 to 50 feet, another is discovered … '
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822380.xml","title":"New gold mine head, Gulgong area","collection":"","dziWidth":"11302","dziHeight":"8354","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62346","assetfilename":"item_00053.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 5 No 18454","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["mines"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822380"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822098","description":"Daniel Doherty, bootmaker, Gulgong 1872
\nThis is an unusual pair of images in the Holtermann Collection, because the individuals have changed into their best clothes for another exposure by the photographer. In the second photograph, taken a day or two later, Doherty holds his daughter's hand and even the dog is posing.
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\nThis is an unusual pair of images in the Holtermann Collection, because the individuals have changed into their best clothes for another exposure by the photographer. In the second photograph, taken a day or two later, Doherty holds his daughter's hand and even the dog is posing.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822166.xml","title":"Daniel Doherty, bootmaker, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"11201","dziHeight":"8221","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62122","assetfilename":"item_00055.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 2 No 18220","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822166"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822439","description":"Lysaught’s butcher shop, Hill End 1872
\nBefore refrigeration, part of the butcher’s skill was estimating the amount of meat that could be sold each day, especially in summer. To make the carcasses more attractive, some butchers made decorative patterns on the surface by slicing through the fat layers to reveal the darker muscle underneath. Price gouging was commonplace. In August 1872, the price of beef in Hill End suddenly rose to 6d a pound [11 cents per kg]. The miners held a meeting to form a meat cooperative and the butchers quickly halved their price.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822439.xml","title":"Lysaught's butcher shop, Hill End","collection":"","dziWidth":"10998","dziHeight":"8405","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62405","assetfilename":"item_00056.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 6 No 18547","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2822439"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822188","description":"James Leggatt’s butcher shop, Gulgong 1872
\nThe motto of James Leggatt's Smithfield Butchery was ‘down with the monopoly and feed the hungry’. His advertising proclaimed his beef was ‘from the best herds in the Western districts’, his mutton was ‘from the choicest flocks in the colony’, his pork was ‘warranted dairy fed’ and his lamb was ‘raised especially to his order’. He opened a branch store in Home Rule at the start of the rush in June 1872 and had delivery carts supplying meat to the goldfields. Meat was 4d a pound [just over 7 cents per kg], roughly twice that in Sydney.
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\nDr Charles Zimmler’s Gulgong Dispensary appeared on Australia’s paper $10 note in 1966, but this is not Dr Zimmler. Standing out front is Henry Kirke White, who used to manage Barnes' chemist shop. At the time of this photograph, Zimmler was serving six months in Bathurst gaol for manslaughter of an infant to whom he had prescribed ammonia. If you look closely, you can see the designer of the 1966 $10 note altered the position of people in the photographs, placing Henry White in front of the Circulating Library.
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\nPie and Coffee establishments were common on the goldfields and the Victoria probably set the standard. Mrs Green perfunctorily dispensed her brew into ironstone crockery from a large urn. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 1872, in Hill End: ' … the plan of sharing shops is by no means uncommon. Thus you may get bread and butcher's meat at one place; church services and clothing at a second; law and tobacco at a third; oysters, tarts, and grog at a fourth; and so on ad infinitum.'
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\nThe establishment of William Thomas Lewis, Undertaker and Carpenter, was primitive, but his funerals were said to be carried out ‘with his usual taste and completeness’. In 1871, Gulgong lacked a suitable place for burials, despite the considerable mortality rate among the young. In April 1871 alone, nine children died in a fortnight. In January 1872, there were 37 deaths in Gulgong (including 21 children under five years) and 17 births.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822118.xml","title":"William T. Lewis, undertaker, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"11233","dziHeight":"8302","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62070","assetfilename":"item_00060.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 2 No 18168","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822118"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822301","description":"John Osborne, painter and signwriter, Gulgong 1872
\nJH Osborne, painter and signwriter of Gulgong, also supplied decorative wallpaper. It seems he painted faux marble headstones as well. Osborne’s bark-clad establishment was located at 2 Medley Street, at the sparsely populated northern end of town, which explains the conspicuous display of his sign-writing skill.
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\nArchitect and surveyor Charles Mayes’ unusual portable building was situated at the corner of Denison and Tambaroora streets, Hill End. Before this, he practised as an architect, surveyor and civil engineer in Melbourne and Sydney, and from 1862 had published six editions of The Australian Builders' Price-Book. Mayes didn’t stay long in Hill End and in 1873 he was employed as an engineer on the Orange Extension Railway.
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\nThe condition of the roads around Hill End ensured that Burgess and Moller’s business in Tambaroora Street was always busy. A correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 1872, wrote of his trip to Hill End: ‘I think I have travelled the worst of roads; for the sake of humanity, I hope there are none worse than those I have travelled’.
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\nMany goldfield stores were notorious for price gouging, but not all. The Australian Town and Country Journal, 26 July 1873, observed: 'It is astonishing to many how low prices are in the drapery and grocery lines, as many articles are sold only a shade over Sydney prices, and this can only be accounted for by the Iarge stocks kept by the two Chinese firms, On Hing and Company, and Sun Tong, Lee, and Company ... '
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822392.xml","title":"Sun Tong Lee's Sydney Branch Store, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"11226","dziHeight":"8456","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62358","assetfilename":"item_00064.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 5 No 18470","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822392"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822490","description":"Great Western Store, Hill End 1872
\nHenry Stuart’s store still stands in Hill End at the intersection of Tambaroora and Havilah streets, although it doesn’t sell the extraordinary range of domestic and mining goods shown here. Stuart was also a director of several mines on Hawkins Hill. The crude building to the left is the new post office extension, built in 1872.
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\nIn the early days of gold rushes, miners usually lived in tents. Here tentmaker J Booth has confidently set up his canvas shop in Home Rule. The burgeoning new field was described in the Sydney Morning Herald, 22 May 1872: 'On Friday last there must have been fully fifteen hundred persons upon the ground, and tents and habitations of every description were springing, apparently Iike mushrooms, from the ground … '
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\nThe Medical Hall of Charles Bird Jnr was situated at the corner of Belmore and Herbert streets. His window display is instructive of a nineteenth century pharmacy. Ayres Pills for the ‘Stomach, Liver and Bowels’ are next to enemas, Macassar oil for the hair, patent medicines, leeches and hernia belts. The Gulgong Guardian, 20 November 1872, noted that Charles Bird had received a new disinfectant ‘which will be invaluable during the summer months to all who are unfortunate enough to live in those parts of town where stenches are pungent and plentiful’.
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\nThe rush to Home Rule in May 1872 supported about 5000 miners, mostly from worked-out leads in Gulgong. According to the Gulgong Guardian, 8 May 1872: 'As the report of the supposed new find was circulated in every paper in the colony, strangers from all quarters began to arrive. Every unemployed person, male or female, young or old … were massing around the wings of the Home Rule Lead. Daily the numbers swelled.'
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822210.xml","title":"G. Oliver's Prince of Wales Hotel and C.L. Morris' Newmarket Sale Yards (auctioneer and agent), Home Rule","collection":"","dziWidth":"11353","dziHeight":"8405","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62172","assetfilename":"item_00068.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 3 No 18275","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["hotels"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["homerule"]},"filename":"a2822210"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822261","description":"Sam Hand's Boarding House, Home Rule 1872
\nSam Hand's boarding house was situated next to a butcher’s shop. According to the Gulgong Guardian, 13 July 1872: ‘The irrepressible Chinese have taken the lead in providing restaurants, and are well patronised especially on Sunday, when the patrons have to wait their turn outside.’ One Chinese boarding house owner was overrun by miners when he advertised roast beef, pork, turkey and goose for Christmas. He needed 10 extra cooks to cater for the 200 who turned up.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822261.xml","title":"Sam Hand's boardinghouse, (next to a butcher shop), Home Rule (?)","collection":"","dziWidth":"11353","dziHeight":"8532","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62224","assetfilename":"item_00069.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 3 No 18332","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["houses"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["homerule"]},"filename":"a2822261"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822313","description":"John Davey, baker, Canadian Lead 1872
\nWith his shoes covered in flour, John Davey steps outside his bakery. Bread cost 6d a 2 lb loaf - 5 cents per 900 g. The rush to Canadian Lead began in early 1872, but was hampered by a lack of water. Nevertheless, it was said that ‘no portion of the gold-field ever was so thoroughly prospected as the Canadian country … ’
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\nThese are detectives Charles Powell and Robert Hannan, outside their office. They had plenty to do. In a letter to the editor of the Maitland Mercury, 16 May 1872, William Collins stated: ' … the very diligent police speedily settle … hostile engagements, by marching the pugilists to a place called the town cage, from which place they are brought in the morning before the magistrate, who has often heard of mercy, but does not know what it means … '
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822182.xml","title":"Detectives Powell & Hannan and their office, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"11169","dziHeight":"8195","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62137","assetfilename":"item_00071.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 2 No 18246","artist":"","date":"1870-1875","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822182"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822063","description":"Australian Joint Stock Bank, Gulgong 1872
\nMiners usually stored their gold in the local bank. The Mudgee Guardian, 26 September 1871, recorded: 'Through the courtesy of Mr. Stewart, the Manager of the Joint Stock Bank, at Gulgong, we were yesterday shown a nugget weighing 38 oz 3 dwts 20 grs [12 kg]. This is the largest nugget found at Gulgong. It was found in a block claim between No. 1 and the Prospectors' on Happy Valley at a depth of 130 feet; it is of pure gold without any admixture of quartz.'
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822063.xml","title":"Australian Joint Stock Bank, Gulgong","collection":"","dziWidth":"10269","dziHeight":"7573","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62013","assetfilename":"item_00072.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 1 No 18105","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["shops"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["gulgong"]},"filename":"a2822063"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822303","description":"The Lawson family, Gulgong 1872
\nLouisa Lawson (mother of author Henry Lawson), her son Charles William and her sister Phoebe Albury (dressmaker), stand outside Mrs Albury's dressmaking shop in the Gulgong area. Henry Lawson lived at Gulgong as a young boy and his 1889 poem, ‘Roaring Days‘, is a nostalgic ode to the gold rush days. The same year Louisa launched the campaign for female suffrage and announced the formation of the Dawn Club.
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\nMrs Hawkes and her children stand in front of the unusual wooden veranda of this miner's cottage. The same cottage can be seen side-on in the view of Gulgong from Church Hill, revealing the simple dwelling behind the façade.
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\nTemporary bark huts were a feature of goldfields life, as they were quick and easy to build. For a traveller, the first sign of a nearby rush town was usually the large number of trees stripped of their bark. The Empire, 28 May 1872, observed that: 'A considerable number of married persons with families appear to have taken to gold-digging as an occupation. It is certainly not a very congenial one for them as respects the comfort and the interests of the younger and weaker members of their households.'
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\nThe most common type of miner's house was of wattle and daub construction. Saplings were driven into the ground at regular intervals, on either side of which were fastened the horizontal wattles or split limbs, the space between them being filled in with a mixture of earth, water and grass. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 1872: ‘Within a radius of two miles [3.2 km] from Hill End it is computed that there are from eight to ten thousand persons settled.’
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2822616.xml","title":"Man and house, Hill End","collection":"","dziWidth":"11302","dziHeight":"8354","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=62583","assetfilename":"item_00076.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 7 No 18731","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["houses"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2822616"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2822867","description":"A domestic miner, Hill End 1872
\nThomas Browne (better known as Rolf Boldrewood) was Gulgong's Gold Commissioner during the period of Merlin and Bayliss photographs. Boldrewood's description of the domestic miner in his novel The Miner's Right seems universal: 'The thrifty miner who possesses the treasure … of a cleanly managing wife, is enabled to surround himself with rural privileges. A plot of garden ground, well fenced, grows not only vegetables but flowers … '
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\nThe wooden school in Tambaroora Street gained a brick extension in 1872. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 1872: 'The additions were badly required, as the attendance is large — the average at present being 209 children. Mr. Thomas Yates is the master, with four assistants. The three schoolrooms are well furnished, and the carpenters were busily employed at the time of my visit, completing the desks and interior arrangements.'
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\nDressed in his athletic or ‘pedestrian’ clothing, 12-year-old William was the fourth of 12 children born to William Pullen, whose stamper battery extracted the gold from the Holtermann nugget. Pedestrianism or foot racing was a popular sport for wagering in the nineteenth century. The most famous race in Hill End was the dead heat between Dinon and Meham over 150 yards [137 metres] in 1873. Meagher collected the £50 prize [equivalent to the annual wage of a carpenter] on a re-run.
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\nLike all boys before the age of four in the nineteenth century, Edwin Hosie wore a dress. His father Stanley was a part-time undertaker and storekeeper at Caloola, twice robbed by bushrangers. When his son Edwin was born, the family moved to Hill End. Edwin attended Hill End School in 1877 and grew up to be a bank manager.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2823911.xml","title":"Master [Edwin James, born 1871 ?] Hosie","collection":"","dziWidth":"8329","dziHeight":"11150","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=64660","assetfilename":"item_00080.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 24 No 828","artist":"","date":"1874","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["portraits"],"exhibitionsections":["portraits"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2823911"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2823449","description":"William Standen 1872
\nIn the nineteenth century, young boys were described as ‘unbreeched’ and wore dresses or gowns — mainly because of a lack of toilet training. William was the youngest surviving son of publican Samuel Standen and his wife Jane. His abusive father deserted the family in 1873, leaving his mother to raise three children, but in 1875 his younger brother Thomas drowned in an unused mine shaft. William grew up to become a hairdresser.
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\nSarah Southwell poses with her first child, William, on the studio chair. Her husband, Douglas, was a miner in Nuggetty Gully, Tambaroora. Like clockwork, Sarah and Douglas went on to have a child every two years, 11 children in total, five in Mudgee and then the remainder in Liverpool.
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\nAgnes Davis holds her sister Julia still for their portrait, although the baby has moved during the exposure. The problem of blurred images caused by movement resulted in many nineteenth century photographers charging double for children under four years of age.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2824018.xml","title":"Miss and Baby Davis","collection":"","dziWidth":"8481","dziHeight":"10947","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=64766","assetfilename":"item_00083.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 25 No 943","artist":"","date":"1873","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["portraits"],"exhibitionsections":["portraits"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2824018"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2823180","description":"Alice Grotefent on her mother’s lap 1872
\nA&A studio photographers managed to steady their smaller clients by placing them in the comfort of their mother’s lap. The presence of the mother was concealed beneath dark cloth and later the image was cropped to mask her being there. However, seeing the whole negative gives the game away. Alice grew up to become a public schoolteacher at Hill End in 1890.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2823180.xml","title":"Baby Grotefent (either Alica Mary born 1872, or, William Henry born 1874) held by mother Jane Grotefent (behind curtain)","collection":"","dziWidth":"8344","dziHeight":"11081","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=152138","assetfilename":"item_00084.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 15 No 359","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["portraits"],"exhibitionsections":["goldfields"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2823180"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2823294","description":"James Letcher and twins 1872
\nSuccessful Cornish miner James Letcher poses with his sons John and Richard. Tragically, James Letcher and his wife lost four of their children in four months during the diphtheria and scarlet fever outbreaks of 1866, which carried off 33 of Hill End’s children. James and Ann lost Mary 12, Ann 6½, Caroline 3½ and James 17 months. However, a new family emerged, with Ann in 1867, John and Richard in 1870 and Jane the following year.
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\nThis may be Chun War, a Chinese miner who was naturalised in 1883. Large numbers of Chinese people worked at Hill End, mostly as alluvial miners, but they kept very much to themselves and were reluctant to pay for miner’s rights. They were regarded as industrious and well-behaved, although it was noted that ‘not one ounce of gold in a hundred ever goes by escort, being sent directly to China’.
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\nFour-year-old William Coyle was the son of publican Patrick Coyle, who owned the Club House Hotel, for many years the leading public house in Hill End. Well-schooled at Saint Ignatius’ College, Riverview, William graduated from the University of Sydney in 1891. Despite a shaky start to his legal career, William became a District Court Judge in Sydney.
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2823112.xml","title":"Master Coyle","collection":"","dziWidth":"8354","dziHeight":"11252","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=63104","assetfilename":"item_00087.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 14 No C-193","artist":"","date":"1872","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["portraits"],"exhibitionsections":["portraits"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2823112"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2824182","description":"Miss Burgess 1874
\nA belle of Hill End, Miss Burgess was photographed from the side to display her fashionable Swiss cotton ‘organdie’ pompadour polonaise to best advantage. Her hair is piled high in a chignon (a mass of hair arranged on a pad at the back of the head and held in place with a net).
","dziUrl":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_Zoomify/2011/D13950/a2824182.xml","title":"Miss Burgess","collection":"","dziWidth":"8608","dziHeight":"11150","recordLink":"http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=64935","assetfilename":"item_00088.xml","callNumber":"ON 4 Box 27 No 1333","artist":"","date":"1874","vimeoID":"","deploystats":"1","filterValues":{"type":["portraits"],"exhibitionsections":["portraits"],"place":["hillend"]},"filename":"a2824182"},{"medium":"1 glass photonegative ","digitalOrderNumber":"a2823818","description":"Captain Gus Pierce 1872
\nGus Peirce (Pierce) was an American captain of Murray River steamers, who wrote a book of his adventures in Australia. He toured the goldfields with a panorama show, but soon after the first big rush at Hawkins Hill in 1871, he returned to Hill End and set up a tent theatre. Peirce was also a competent draughtsman and claims to have made £12 to £15 a day [25 times a miner’s wage] surveying and drawing mining claims, but that may be an exaggeration. He stayed in Hill End for eight months, building a three-room wattle and daub cottage for his family.
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\nHeinrich Pieter Meier arrived in Sydney from Germany in 1858, becoming naturalised in 1861 and anglicising his name. He operated a Shaving, Haircutting and Shampooing Salon in Clarke Street and was also chief of the Hill End fire brigade. His dog was the brigade’s mascot.
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\nCornish miner Samuel Bucket arrived in Hill End in 1872. It was said that Holtermann used to employ miners with brass band experience. According to Frank Shellard, who was a miner in Hill End and no friend of Holtermann: ' … anyone who could play a musical brass instrument was sure to get a job. He soon had the making of a fine brass band. As he provided the uniforms and instruments, it was called Holterman's Band, and used to play at his house and about the town.'
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\nMiner Charles Shipway was a keen cricketer who bowled for Hill End. Born Andrew Charles Bussorah Shipway (because he was born at sea aboard the Bussorah Merchant), Shipway arrived with his family in 1839. His three brothers were alluvial miners at Tambaroora in 1852 and Charles was friends with itinerant miner Mark Hammond, who first found the gold seam in Beyer and Holtermann’s Star of Hope mine in 1871.
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\nWilliam White and Samuel Hewitt were bootmakers employed at William Johnstone’s boot shop in Tambaroora Street, Hill End. Both are wearing the regalia of the Royal Black Preceptory, a Protestant fraternal society.
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\nBorn in Sydney, 12-year-old Ellen was the eldest daughter of Hill End general storekeeper Patrick Brady, whose shop was in Clarke Street. Ellen’s white broderie anglaise pantalettes were regarded as a sign of cleanliness. Her purse has moved during the exposure, making it seem transparent.
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\nMrs Dingle had three children by her first husband, before marrying miner William Dingle and having at least six more children. Their three daughters died before 12 months, but three boys survived. William Dingle was injured in a mine accident at Carroll & Beard’s mine in 1873 and his ‘recovery was uncertain’ but he went on to live to 1904, when he was thrown from his horse and killed, as was the eldest daughter two years earlier in a similar accident.
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\nSarah Geaney was an assistant primary schoolteacher at Hill End and appears in several photographs with pupils at the school. In this unusual image, she looks out of a false window, a studio prop used only occasionally.
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\nMary Taylor and her friend Miss Paterson compare Valentine’s Day cards in the studio. Embossed paper lace Valentine cards were introduced in the mid nineteenth century. The fashionably dressed women are wearing high mantilla combs in their chignon hair with false ringlets, a style that became even more popular with the production of Bizet’s Carmen in Paris in 1875.
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\nDressmaker Margaret Penhall and her eldest daughter Martha have been photographed smartly dressed and well-groomed and then re-photographed in an unkempt state. Possibly the images were reversed and used for advertising by the studio as an example of their ‘before-and-after’ skill, but this pair of portraits, on consecutively numbered photographic plates, remains a puzzle. Mrs Penhall is pregnant with her third child, a few months after losing her second.
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\nDressmaker Margaret Penhall and her eldest daughter Martha have been photographed smartly dressed and well-groomed and then re-photographed in an unkempt state. Possibly the images were reversed and used for advertising by the studio as an example of their ‘before-and-after’ skill, but this pair of portraits, on consecutively numbered photographic plates, remains a puzzle. Mrs Penhall is pregnant with her third child, a few months after losing her second.
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\nClutching a blond china doll, Eliza Jane Jeffree poses for the camera. She was the eldest of six children of Albert Jeffree, a successful Cornish miner and the head brewer at Hill End’s only brewery. The studio’s false skirting board is some distance away from the wall, concealing the base of a head clamp holding Eliza still during the lengthy exposure.
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\nAn attack on the theatricality of Reverend Tress in the Freeman’s Journal was met with a rebuttal in the Hobart Mercury, on 10 September 1877: 'Few men are freer from the suspicion of foppery, effeminacy, and tricky attempts at 'effect’', than the man whose self-denying labours among the gold miners of Hill End and Tambaroora, made him loved by those who are not, as a rule, appreciative of such follies. Why, then, is he thus singled out for attack? Because he is an Orangeman.'
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\nSarah Kearnes was photographed on several occasions in the Hill End studio. Here she displays her latest bustled dress, with contrasting fringing. The folding Brewster stereoscopic viewer and carte de visite photograph on the table are studio props, also seen in the portrait of Ellen Brady.
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\nWith matching dresses and hairstyles, Mary and Sophia Myer faced the studio camera. Both were enrolled in Hill End Public School in June 1871, when Mary was aged 11 and Sophia was five. Their fashionably curly hair was probably the result of their father’s over-enthusiasm, as he was the town’s hairdresser. Another image of Sophia outside his salon reveals she had straight hair and a missing front tooth.
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\nLooking very much the local larrikin, Edward O’Brien leans on the back of the studio chair in a particularly Australian stance. O’Brien held a miner’s right at the Dirt Hole, an alluvial field just outside Tambaroora. The A&A Photographic Company did not have the furnishings of a city gallery and their studio chair was modified to make it resemble a more fashionable high-backed prayer chair.
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\nAdelaide Montgomery’s father died when she was three years old. Raised by her dressmaker mother Grace, Adelaide had an unfortunate end in 1892 from an untreated illness, as she belonged to a sect that forbad medical intervention. Her mother thought she was ‘only sleeping till the Lord should awaken her’.
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\nThis is Dr John O’Connell and his wife Theresa, née Cummins, who married at Hill End on 6 June 1874. She was 24 and he was 71 and had just been appointed medical officer at Hill End Hospital, much to the dismay of the Hill End Observer, which decried ‘the notorious habit’ of Dr O’Connell and his lack of ‘a firm, steady hand ... ’
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\nThis photograph of a dead child, with a wreath of dianthus and surrounded by eucalypt leaves and roses, is a reminder of the high mortality of children in the nineteenth century. In the 1870s, about a quarter of all children in Australia died before five years of age, usually from diarrhoea and intestinal diseases.
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\nOn Gay owned a drapery and general store in Clarke Street, Hill End. In his memoirs, Remembered with Pride, miner Mark Hammond observed: ‘The appearance of some of the Chinese had considerably altered from what it was … many of them were now adopting European costumes’.
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\nYoung August Gondolf was the son of miner Peter Gondolf, a partner in the Oxon and Gondolf mine, which was situated on the ridge of Hawkins Hill, just outside the ‘Golden Quarter Mile’. His fashionable sailor suit is topped with the hatband of HMS Cadmus, a 21-gun wooden steam corvette of the British Navy.
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\nEngineer and mill owner Seren Petersen, wife Maria and family crowded into the studio. Of their 12 children, the last five (including the youngest here), died before the age of two. The blur to the right is the photographer’s assistant, accidentally captured during the lengthy exposure.
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