Historical information

Arthur William Pulfer was born on 18 April 1918, in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, his father, Harold Victor Pulfer, was 30 and his mother, Elsie Maud Rumball, was 26. He married Norma Stewart in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. He died on 6 March 2001, in his hometown, at the age of 82, and was buried in the Bendigo Cemetery.

Physical description

Many images from by Arthur Pulfer copied to slides. Eighteen Slides from various paintings and engravings of 1800s Sandhurst and Bendigo.

This item includes the following slides:

7795.1a Examining the day's work - engraving by Tho. Ham

7795.1b Digger's Auction Eaglehawk Bendigo - Artist S.T. Gill

7795.1c Junction of Pegleg and Sailors Gully Bendigo - Artist (engravers ?) Hullmandel and Walton

7795.1d On Bendigo Creek - Artist S.T. Gill

7795.1e Diggers on the way to Bendigo - Artist S.T. Gill

7795.1f Iron Bark Gully - Artist S.T. Gill

7795.1g At Bendigo Mill June 1852 - Artist S.T. Gill

7795.1h View of Sandhurst Victoria Australia A.J. Stopps Engraving

7795.1i View of Sandhurst Victoria Australia A.J. Stopps Engraving

7795.1j Post Office Sandhurst - artist unknown

7795.1k St Andrews Denominational or common school, 'Scotch' school, Myers Street Bendigo.

7795.1l Eaglehawk Gully Bendigo 1853, artist Angus G.F.

7795.1m Shamrock Hotel

7795.1n McPhersons Store Bendigo Victoria - artist unknown

7795.1o George Lacy, the first gathering of the Bendigo Caledonian Society 2nd January 1860 from the National Library of Australia

7795.1p A painting by F. Tayler - appears to be a view looking towards Mt Alexander.

7795.1q Rear of a painting by F. Tayler - appears to be a view looking towards Mt Alexandra.