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Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-62TitleLower Stafford Street, DunedinDescriptionExterior photo of buildings along "Lower Stafford Street", Dunedin, looking towards the harbor. (The tall building on the left is at 34 Stafford Street today, next to St. Mathew's Anglican Church). "Laun" is written on the side of the building on the right. (The first part of the word "Laundry").
Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 194.
Caption from book: "Lower Stafford Street, the center of much Chinese commercial activity, photographed by Alexander Don c. 1904. From See Shing's laundry (right) the sequence of buildings towards Princes St includes the Methodist Central Mission hall, Sew Hoy's store (with flagpole), the Hip Fung Taai store, and Shiel & Co. The multistorey Kempthorn, Prosser, & Co. drug manufactory, newly built, dominates the left-hand side of the street: then come Crust & Crust's furniture store and neighbouring stables, Kwong Shing Wing store (behind the street pole), Farra Bros. tinsmiths, another K.P. building, Toong Quon fruiterer, Sun Young Chong store, Koo Choo laundry, and the Tattersalls and Provincial hotels. Many years later, the firm of Sew Hoy took over the large K.P. building. In 1904, the rest of Dunedin's 'Chinatown' - taking in upper Stafford, Hope and Walker streets - contained 3 more fruiterers, 2 laundries, 2 store, 2 lodging houses (one with a restaurant), as well as the Chinese Mission Church and its accompanying manse, which was Don's residence. [Kirkland Collection]"TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1904CreatorAlexander, Don RevSubjectBuildings - ExteriorDunedinCommerical BuildingsSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.
Digitised?YesLocation IDNg-FS.1-62TitleLower Stafford Street, DunedinDescriptionExterior photo of buildings along "Lower Stafford Street", Dunedin, looking towards the harbor. (The tall building on the left is at 34 Stafford Street today, next to St. Mathew's Anglican Church). "Laun" is written on the side of the building on the right. (The first part of the word "Laundry").Publication: "Windows on a Chinese Past - Vol. 1", by James Ng, pub. Nov. 1993. Image on page 194.
Caption from book: "Lower Stafford Street, the center of much Chinese commercial activity, photographed by Alexander Don c. 1904. From See Shing's laundry (right) the sequence of buildings towards Princes St includes the Methodist Central Mission hall, Sew Hoy's store (with flagpole), the Hip Fung Taai store, and Shiel & Co. The multistorey Kempthorn, Prosser, & Co. drug manufactory, newly built, dominates the left-hand side of the street: then come Crust & Crust's furniture store and neighbouring stables, Kwong Shing Wing store (behind the street pole), Farra Bros. tinsmiths, another K.P. building, Toong Quon fruiterer, Sun Young Chong store, Koo Choo laundry, and the Tattersalls and Provincial hotels. Many years later, the firm of Sew Hoy took over the large K.P. building. In 1904, the rest of Dunedin's 'Chinatown' - taking in upper Stafford, Hope and Walker streets - contained 3 more fruiterers, 2 laundries, 2 store, 2 lodging houses (one with a restaurant), as well as the Chinese Mission Church and its accompanying manse, which was Don's residence. [Kirkland Collection]"
TypeBlack & white negativeDimensions35mm x 24mmDate Createdc. 1904CreatorAlexander, Don RevSubjectBuildings - ExteriorDunedinCommerical BuildingsSourceEva and James NgAccession No2018/73/5/2CollectionEva and James Ng Photographic CollectionNoteImage from positive, black and white filmstrip.Recollect CollectionNew Zealand Chinese CollectionAcknowledgementThank you to the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and the Synod of Otago and Southland for together providing funding to digitise these images.Click on the image to add
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Alexander, Don Rev, Lower Stafford Street, Dunedin. Presbyterian Research Centre, accessed 29/05/2026, https://pcanzarchives.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/127599
