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Exhibition dates: 23rd February – 12th May 2013
American & Australasian Photographic Company
[Merlin’s photographic cart?] and Mitchell’s London Hotel, Railway Place, Sandridge [Port Melbourne]
1870-1875
Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth century was discovered in a garden shed in Chatswood. In time, the find proved to be the most important photographic documentation of goldfields life in Australia. All negatives have now been scanned at high resolution and for the first time in 140 years, it is possible to see what Merlin and Bayliss (from the American & Australasian Photographic Company) photographed, with astonishing clarity and fidelity. “Many of the images in the Holtermann collection were created for an ambitious 1870s publicity campaign to sell the wonders of the Australian colonies to the world.”
What I find particularly interesting is the familiarity of all photographs of goldfields from around the world, whether it be Californian or Victorian – the working class men, the pictures of diggings, etc… but also the particular Australian vernacular that these photographs
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America’s oldest bakeries still operating today
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth
13 January 2025
Tasty traditions
Many families that immigrated to the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s, especially those from Italy, Holland, and Germany, found their way in America by opening small, independent bakeries. Decades later, many of those bakeries are still thriving, often run by new generations of the original owners’ families. Bakeries are an essential part of communities across the country – these are some of the oldest that are still going strong, often more than 100 years after they first opened.
Click or scroll through our gallery to discover the most historic bakery near you, counting down to the oldest of them all.
We’ve based our selections and ranking on each bakery’s claimed founding date, taking into account the age of the business and how long the property has been serving food.
32. Helm's, Los Angeles, California
Helm's launched in 1931 and was the original supplier for the 1932 Summer Olympics, hence why its initial signage and logo featured the famous Olympic rings. A bakery until its closure in 1969, when the site began housing a selection of restaurants and furniture stores, in 2024 chef Sang Y
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