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 At last, the final two wet plate glass negatives from the Holtermann Collection have been digitised.

The last box of 18x22 inch large glass plate negatives has been shot. Here is a short timelapse of me finishing them off. I still have the incredible 1.6 metre negative to shoot, but that will be another story.

Reminiscences of an old gold digger. The great rush to Hill End, Tambaroora, New South Wales. By Frank Shellard  in The Queenslander 24 Jan 1914 p8

∫Holtermann Papers ZML MSS 968 item1, held by Mitchell Library

The time has come when with great anticipation I am starting to photograph the larger wet-collodion Glass plate negatives.

A colleague recently catalogued an original  ‘Holtermann’s Life Preserving Drops’ poster at the Library and I thought some additional information might be of interest.
Original held at Mitchell Posters, Posters/Medicine/8

I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to pick up the Holtermann digitisation project where Lauren left off.

During the early part of 1873, Beaufoy Merlin was occupied photographing west of the Blue Mountains for Holtermann’s proposed Gallery of Colonial Views and Products.