Keast Burke
photographer, photo historian, editor of the Australian Photo-Review

GOLD AND SILVER  

Introduction / Processes / Holtermann / Merlin / Bayliss / Iconography / the Plates / Bibliography


Bibliography - as published by Keast Burke in 1973                   

The material for this section has been corrected and expanded from the author's articles originally published in The Australasian Photo-Review over the period March 1953 - February 1954.

>> see also A. P-R.  1953


Bernard Otto Holtermann

Apart from the various documents, reference works and newspapers mentioned within the text, the following manuscripts and clippings were also consulted :

Bernard Otto Holtermann Papers, ML MSS 968. The more important of the papers in the Mitchell Library are : a 16 page autobiographical note (referred to in the text as 'holograph'), and some of the Star of Hope G. M. Co. letters from Sydney to Hill End, signed by G. A. Russell (referred to in the text as 'letter-book').

Beyers and Holtermann's Star of Hope G. M. Co. Letters from Hill End to Sydney (also referred to in the text as 'letter-book' and privately held).

The M. J. Hammond Papers, ML MSS 117. Original diaries and transcripts, in the Mitchell Library, and also privately held (referred to in the text as 'memoirs').

Bernard Otto Holtermann Diary for the period 1 January 10 November 1874 (privately held).

The Bernard Otto Holtermann File of personal papers, documents and newspaper clippings (privately held).

The Charles W. Marshall Archives (privately held).

The Harold Walpole Archives (privately held).


Beaufoy Merlin

Australian Town and Country Journal

6 January 1872 'The Eclipse Expedition', with rough notes by Beaufoy Merlin, no illustrations.

30 March1872 Large engraving of a street scene, entitled 'HiII End - view in Clarke Street', taken from a photograph by Beaufoy Merlin.

18 May 1872 'Vew of Hawkins Hill'; a large engraving of the panorama of the Hawkins Hill shafts. The claims are identified with key numbers, and photographic credit is given to Beaufoy Merlin.

25 May 1872 EHawkins Hill-view No. 2'; 'a view of a section of Hawkins Hill, showing some of the most remarkable features of that wonderful auriferous mountain. The accompanying illustration . . . is from a photograph by Beaufoy Merlin, Esq., and being engraved to scale, may be depended upon for its perfect accuracy.'

29 June 1872 Engraving of 'Pullen and Rawsthorne's Quartz Crushing Battery', çfrom a photograph taken on the spot by Mr Beaufoy Merlin'. The illustration is accompanied by an article on 'Quartz Crushing Machinery' and refers to the new fifteen-head stamper battery fabricated for Pullen and Rawsthorne by P. N. Russell and Company, Sydney.

2 November 1872 Small portrait engraving of Holtermann together with a lengthy biographical note, 'Perseverance Rewarded - Mr J. 0. Holtermann (sic) by Beaufoy Merlin'.

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Of the 1873 articles noted below, the first three were based on Merlin's Exhibition coverage of the New South Wales central west.

Australian Town and Country Journal

19 April 1873  'Rough Notes by the Photographic Artist of Holtermann's Exposition; Introductory [note]' and 'At Orange'.

5 July 1873 'Rough Notes by the Photographic Artist of Holtermann's Exhibition, No. 2 Orange (Continued)', with engraving, 'View of Summer Street, Orange'.  In the course of the article, Merlin writes : 'I took every house there.'

27 September 1873 'From Orange to Dubbo by Beaufoy Merlin, Photographic Artist of Holtermann's Exposition'.

9 August 1873  'Recent Discoveries in New Guinea, during the cruise of H.M.S. Basilisk, by Beaufoy Merlin, Esq., Photographic Artist of Holtermann's Exhibition'.

23 August 1873  'The French Ironclad, Atalante, by Beaufoy Merlim Photographer to Holtermann's Exhibition,'  together with a large engraving, 'the French Ironclad, Atalante, in the Fitzroy Dock, Sydney Harbour'. '


Charles Bayliss

Collections of newspaper clippings in the Mitchell Library and privately held (mostly n.d., n.p.).
Personal papers in the possession of the Bayliss family.

The Australian (later Australasian) Photo-Review, 19 June 1897 : a brief obituary.


General

Information or! the history of Hill End and Gulgong can be obtained from the following :

Farrell, George Ghost Towns, Rigby, Adelaide, 1965.

Friend, Donald  A Collection of Hillendiana, comprising vast numbers of Facts & a considerable amount of Fiction, concerning the Goldfield of Hillend and Environs. Ure Smith, Sydney, repr. 1966.

Harper, L. F. The Hill End Tambaroora Gold-field, N.S.W. Department of Mines Geological Survey,
Mineral Resources No. 27, Sydney, 1918.

Hill End Citizens' Association Holtermann Exhibition and Festival 1872 - 1955 Hill End; a catalogue with annotations by D. Murray, Western Times, Bathurst, 1953.

Hodge, Harry The Hill End Story; a History of the Hill End-Tambaroora Goldfield, Books 1, 2 & 3, privately published by the author, Newcastle, 1964-72.

George Charles Johnson, various newspaper cuttings in volumes under Gold Mining and Golden Gulgong, Mitchell Library.

Jones, Leo J. The Gulgong Goldfield, N.S.W. Department of Mines Geological Survey, Mineral Resources No. 38, Sydney, 1940.

Maxwell, Eileen Written in Gold; the Story of Gulgong, the Town on the 10 Dollar Note: a Gulgong Pioneers Museum and Historical Society, Gulgong, 4th. ed., 1970.

Purser, Maxwell E. Hill End Today and Yesterday , published in conjunction with the Hill End Jubilee and Gold Centenary Celebrations 14-21 October 1951 and containing the official programme, Bathurst Times, Bathurst, 1951.

Simpson, Colin The New Australia, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1971.


Introduction / Processes / Holtermann / Merlin / Bayliss / Iconography / the Plates / Bibliography

>> see also A. P-R.  1953


The text and notes to the plates: copyright © Keast Burke 1973

The original GOLD AND SILVER plates were taken from the Holtermann negatives, Mitchell Library Sydney.

 

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