• Title
  Herbert Street, east side looking north from Mayne Street and showing Hunter & Co. Shoe Store, Gulgong
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 2 /no. 18241
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62133
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 negative - glass - Quarter plate
  
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  Out of copyright
• Description source
  
  See item PXA 4999 Box 2 No 18209 for identification of buildings
  LR plan #9
  The central point where people by the thousands gathered on a Friday night and weekends to let off steam or partake in entertainment at the many hotels and theatres. Laughter and pandemonium, music and singing of a dozen nations were the weekly celebration of a prosperous goldfield. As George Johnson wrote - 'It was a scene that only Charles Dickens could describe'.
  On the northeastern corner is John Hunter's Boot Shop where old shoes were cast off for new. On the western side below McCulloch's Bookshop is the former premises of Dr Pericles. Dr Bubb was in occupation in July 1872, and only two months later he died of acute bronchitis. -- Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Dec 2006)
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a2822177
  Copy print available: PXA 4999 Available on Open Access shelves in Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
  This glass negative forms part of the Holtermann Collection : photographs of goldfield towns in N.S.W. and Victoria; Sydney and Melbourne streets and buildings, 1871-1876
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  main streets
  shoe shops
  streetscapes
  unsealed roads
  
• Place
  Hunter & Co. (corner Herbert & Mayne Streets, Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  

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