What kind of negatives are the Holtermann collection that showed a former gold mining town in New South Wales?
Holtermann collection The Holtermann Collection is the name given to a collection of about 3,500 glass-plate negatives which mainly depicts life in the New South Wales goldfields towns of Hill End, Gulgong, Home Rule and Canadian Lead. Photographs of people and prominent landmarks are also included. The photographs were taken in the second half of the nineteenth century. The collection is held by the State Library of New South Wales.
Frederick Schoenfeld Frederick Schoenfeld aka Fritz Schoenfeld (1810, Switzerland – 21 April 1868, Richmond, Victoria), was a Swiss-born Australian artist, printmaker, lithographer and art teacher. He is noted for providing the illustrations for the 6 volumes (1859–68) of "Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae" by Ferdinand von Mueller, then director of the National Herbarium of Victoria, and for "The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria" (1860–65) and "Analytical Drawings of Australian Mosses" (1864).