Bernhardt Otto Holtermann was a German-born Australian gold miner, businessman, politician and photographer. Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is his association with the Holtermann Nugget, the large
Holtermann and the gold specimen discovered at Star of Hope Mine in 1872
Bernhardt Holtermann in 1880
The view of Sydney Harbour from 'The Towers'
Charles Bayliss, was an Australian photographer, who is best known for photographs that he took during the 1870s, which form a large part of the Holtermann Collection.
Bernhardt Holtermann
…photograph New South Wales and exhibit the results abroad to encourage immigration. The work was taken up after Merlin's death in 1873 by his assistant, Charles Bayliss. In 1875, Holtermann and Bayliss produced the Holtermann panorama, a series of "23 albumen silver photographs which join together to form a continuous…
Charles Bayliss, photographer, photographed in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne in 1886
Charles Bayliss (left) and Henshaw Clarke, outside A & A Photographic Company premises, Hill End, New South Wales, 1872.
Charles Bayliss (c.1883) The Macquarie Lighthouses – old and new. Macleay Collections