Holtermann's Hill End
The preservation and rehousing of over 3500 glass plate negatives in the Holtermann collection is now underway. Assistant conservators in the Collection Preservation and Storage branch have recently begun cleaning and rehousing the glass plate negatives in readiness for their imminent digitisation.
The assistant conservators are currently working on the quarter plate negatives of which there are 31 boxes with approximately 100 in each box! So far they have spotted the local schools of Hill End, a Chinese boarding house and shopfronts with one looking very much like the Gem saloon in Deadwood (an entertaining HBO series about a gold rush town)