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The Greatest Wonder of the World
In 1872, the newly rich Bernhardt Otto Holtermann used some of his wealth to employ Henry Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss, of the American and Australasian…
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Henry Stuart's Great Western Store, Hill End / from the Holtermann collection at the State Library of NSW
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Panoramic view of Hill End, looking from Germantown in the west to the east / from the Holtermann collection at the State Library of NSW
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Miners display a pan of nuggets from a new strike (see flag left) with Clerk of Petty Sessions, L.S. Donaldson (straw hat) to check the claim while butcher Leggatt sits on his cart, Gulgong area
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Find out what life was like on 19th century NSW goldfields at the Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition now open.
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See how you measure up next to the 'Holtermann nugget' at the Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition.
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What's on this weekend? - ABC Sydney - Simone Whetton. The Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition is now open at the State Library. For more information about this photograph: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=61962
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To find out more about the Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition at the State Library of NSW, check out the exhibition guide (pdf): http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/2013/holtermann/docs/3880_The_Greatest_Wonder_of_the_World_Guide_WEB.pdf
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Herbert Street, Gulgong, 1872 / Beaufoy Merlin. From the Holtermann Collection, at the State Library of NSW.
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