• Title
  Gulgong Dispensary chemist & druggist Dr. Zimmler
• Creator
  American & Australasian Photographic Company
• Call number
  ON 4/Box 3 /no. 18289
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1870-1875
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  62185
• 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
  
  LR plan #87
  "... young Mr White, late manager of Barne's Mudgee Drug Store, steps out ..." -- Gold and Silver / Keast Burke p.258
  The Gulgong Dispensary of Dr Charles Zimmler in Mayne Street next to the Warburton Hotel. Zimmler, who was a doctor from Germany, was not qualified to practice as a doctor in New South Wales, so he practiced as a Chemist. Standing out front is Henry Kirke White, who prior to the photo being taken was managing Barnes' chemist shop. White was looking after Zimmler's business while he was serving 6 months in Bathurst jail for manslaughter of an infant child to whom he'd prescribed ammonia for her illness. After serving his time Zimmler returned to Gulgong and continued his practice at the building which was formerly the Hotel de France. He was a leader in the movement to have Gulgong declared a Municipality, and over a period of years he was elected as mayor on four occasions, although his terms in office were very stormy. Zimmler died in 1889 and is buried in Gulgong cemetery. -- Information supplied by Baldwin & Davis, Research Gulgong (Dec 2006)
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a2822223
  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
• Name
  White, Henry Kirke
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  chemist shops
  historic buildings
  pharmacists
  streetlights
  
• Place
  Gulgong Dispensary (Mayne Street, Gulgong, N.S.W.)
  

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