• Title
  Argus Newspaper & General Machine Printing Office, Gulgong
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 1 /no. 18137
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62040
• 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
• General note
  
  Ref. "Gold & silver" 1953, p.543
  LR plan #152
  Sign on rear of Lewis' hut (LR plan #6) points to the Argus Office ref. item PXA 4999 Box 1 No. 18090
  John Bird Stormer the owner is fourth from the left, and the editor George Dunmore Lang is sixth from the left. The dog in the man's arms, left, belongs to Stormer. It can also be seen in the photograph of Stormer's house which was opposite, see Home & away - 38778. The Argus newspaper started in April 1872 and became Gulgong's third newspaper, but it outlasted its opposition by more than two years. -- Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (July 2006)
  Digital order no:a2822090
  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
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Home and Away - 38777
• Name
  Lang, George Dunmore
  Stormer, John Bird
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  boys
  
• Topic
  bark huts & houses
  journalists
  newspaper buildings
  printeries
  printers (people)
  
• Place
  Argus (Belmore Street, Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  

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