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Rush for Gold!

by State Library of NSW

Discover Collections - Rush for Gold! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/gol...

Photographs of the gold rush in New South Wales, Australia

The Holtermann collection of Australian goldfields' images was listed by UNESCO in 2013

18 photos · 4.9K views
Gold minehead and seven miners, Gulgong, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
G.H. Bryant's butcher shop, Clarke Street, Hill End, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
B.O. Holtermann (2nd from left), Richard Ormsby Kerr (centre) and Beyers (2nd from right), with reef gold from Star of Hope mine, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Simmons' (miners' office, mining agent, law agent and public accountant) and family outside his bark hut, Gulgong area, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Condell's Great Western Boot Mart (Clarke Street, Hill End, N.S.W), 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Couple with seven children in front of their cottage with bark roof, Hill End, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Horse and cart bogged in what was once a gold digging outside Meares flooded Criterion Store, Clarke Street, Hill End, Winter 1872 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
All Nations Hotel (J. Williams proprietor), Clarke Street, Hill End, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
William A. Sac's Chinese Boarding House, Gulgong, 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Teacher and schoolchildren outside the school, Blacklead (?), 1871-1875 / American & Australasian Photographic Company
B.O. Holtermann with the Holtermann Nugget, North Sydney, 1874-1876 ? / American & Australasian Photographic Company
Bernard Otto Holtermann with the world's largest "nugget" of gold, North Sydney, 1874-1876, albumen print from composite photographs by Charles Bayliss & Beaufoy Merlin [attributed]
Holey Dollar, New South Wales, minted 1813, from Spanish silver dollar minted in 1798
Professor Curtain's Barber's Saloon, Hill End, c. 1872
Hokitika, gold rush town, South Island, New Zealand, 1870s
Donkey steam engine, Wilson's Reef, Marong, NSW, c.1872
Old Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1857, George Rowe
Turon quartz crushing works, Sofala Gold fields, New South Wales