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 NuisanceHow 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 NuisanceAll 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
Daniel Doherty, shoe store, Gulgong
William Holmes, Bootmaker, Mayne Street, Gulgong 1872
J. Hall, bootmaker, Gulgong, 1872
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
Bank of New South Wales, corner Mayne & Herbert streets, Gulgong
Henry Rossiter's Hotel, Gulgong
Sippel Bros., tobacconists, Gulgong
James Leggatt, Smithfield Butchery, 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
Snoozing dog outside Ryan's Hotel
Dog with a goldfields tent family
Herbert Street, west side looking north from Mayne Street
Dogs outside the Beehive hotel, Lowe's Paddock
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
