Tuesday, July 13, 2021

DOGS of the HOLTERMANN COLLECTION

Click on the images to see the dogs in the full-sized photo from the Holtermann collection on the website of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Better still, visit the Gulgong Holtermann Museum.

Despite the great number of dogs that can be seen around Gulgong in the photos of the Holtermann collection, they were not universally loved. Here's what one journalist had to say:

The Dog Nuisance
How is it that the Dog Act is not in force, or it is not applied at Gulgong? The town swarms with useless curs, which, for the benefit of the inhabitants, stand in very great need of wholesale extermination. Every man must have his dog, and some, not content with one, are attended by half a dozen useless animals, which are no use whatever, and are certainly by no means ornamental. We would like to see the tax enforced, so that the number of curs might be reduced.

The Dog Nuisance
All over the country ‘the cry is still they come.’ Dogs, mongrels, curs, etc. abound in Gulgong, a horseman cannot go through any of the streets without a pack of these yelping brutes after him. At night their howling and barking keeps half the town awake. It seems strange that while other towns are taking steps to remedy this evil, Gulgong is taking no action. We call the attention of the police to this matter and hope they will take some measure to abate the nuisance.
Source: The Gulgong Evening Argus, October 20, 1874

GULGONG DOGS_________________________________

Daniel Doherty, Bootmaker, Gulgong 1870-75

Holtermann sitting on a tricycle with child, while the other children are in the gig or on a Saint Bernard dog and an Aboriginal groom Fred Grunway holds the horse, 1878-79

Argus Newspaper & General Machine Printing Office, Gulgong
John Bird Stormer, the owner, is on the right. The dog in the man's arms belongs to Stormer.

Home of John Bird Stormer, Argus newspaper owner, Gulgong

Herbert Street looking south from Belmore Street (showing Belmore Hotel), Gulgong


William Holmes, Bootmaker, Mayne Street, Gulgong 1870-75

J. Hall, bootmaker, Gulgong, 1870-75

Woman and girl, Mosberg family, outside bark house with dogs and chickens, Gulgong

Mayne Street, Gulgong showing group outside Selff's Sportsmans Arms Hotel (also Barnes' Mudgee Drug Store & Plunkett, auctioneers)

Mayne Street, Gulgong showing group outside Selff's Sportsmans Arms Hotel (also Barnes' Mudgee Drug Store & Plunkett, auctioneers)

Stafford Henry Barnes' Mudgee Drug Store, Gulgong

Woods & Co.' Sydney House (merchants & importers, wine & spirit merchants, drapers & outfitters) and School of Arts, Gulgong


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

Prince of Wales Theatre, Mayne Street, Gulgong
C. Giugni, watchmaker & jeweller in same building


Mayne Street, Gulgong, looking east from Colonial Wines, C. Giugni jeweller, Prince of Wales Theatre, S.Green's Hairdressing Salon and Dillon's Hotel

Dog outside Cafe de France
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Bank of New South Wales, corner Mayne & Herbert streets, Gulgong




Butcher shop next door to Red Hill Hotel, Gulgong

Henry Hilton's Golden Age Hotel, Gulgong

William Binder's Star Hotel & London Music Hall, Gulgong

Hanley & Blewitt's Queensland Horse Bazaar, livery & bait stable, and the Harp of Erin Hotel, Gulgong

Ghost dog on Mayne Street

Snoozing dog outside Ryan's Hotel


Herbert Street, west side looking north from Mayne Street 

The same pair in Herbert Street

Dog outside Hunter & Co Bootmaker, Herbert Street

Dogs outside the Beehive hotel, Lowe's Paddock


Main street, Canadian Lead



HOME RULE DOGS_________________________________

Main street, Home Rule

Dogs and ghost man, Main street, Home Rule

Crystal Fountain drink delivery cart in front of Samuel Bibb's Home Rule Hotel, Home Rule

Samuel Bibb's Home Rule Hotel, Home Rule

Samuel Bibb's Home Rule Hotel, Home Rule

Group outside David Wright's Queensland Hotel, Home Rule

Group outside David Wright's Queensland Hotel, Home Rule