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.
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
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
Charles Bayliss
…and the pair travelled extensively throughout Victoria and New South Wales. At the goldfields around Hill End, New South Wales, Merlin and Bayliss met Bernhardt Otto Holtermann, who had become wealthy as the result of successful gold mining. Holtermann employed the A & A Photographic Company to produce a series of photographs…
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'