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Volume 33, 2023 - Issue 2
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An “Artistic Display of Wares”: The Wallpaper Trade During Otago’s Goldrush, 1860-1867

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Figure 1. Princes Street 1862, R E Inman’s Million House is on the rightof the image. Photographer: Burton Brothers. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.000863.

Figure 1. Princes Street 1862, R E Inman’s Million House is on the rightof the image. Photographer: Burton Brothers. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.000863.

Figure 2. Looking south down Princes Street 1858, when the cutting is begun. Photographer: William Melhuis. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.030500.

Figure 2. Looking south down Princes Street 1858, when the cutting is begun. Photographer: William Melhuis. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.030500.

Figure 3. Looking south down Princes Street from the cutting,1863. The Oriental Hotel is being constructed (right). Photographer: Muir and Moodie. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.001625.

Figure 3. Looking south down Princes Street from the cutting,1863. The Oriental Hotel is being constructed (right). Photographer: Muir and Moodie. Source: Te Papa Collections, O.001625.

Figure 4. James Fulton’s Lisburn House, Dunedin,1865. Photographer: Unknown. Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka oHākena, University of Otago, Box 228-012.

Figure 4. James Fulton’s Lisburn House, Dunedin,1865. Photographer: Unknown. Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka oHākena, University of Otago, Box 228-012.

Figure 5. Princes Street by junction of Dowling Street, looking south, c1867-69. The completed Oriental Hotel is on the right. Photographer: J W Allen, 1869. Source: Hocken Collections - UareTaoka o Hākena, University of Otago, P1910-046-006.

Figure 5. Princes Street by junction of Dowling Street, looking south, c1867-69. The completed Oriental Hotel is on the right. Photographer: J W Allen, 1869. Source: Hocken Collections - UareTaoka o Hākena, University of Otago, P1910-046-006.

Figure 6. Value (pounds sterling) of wallpaper exports from the United Kingdom, Victoria and New South Wales to New Zealand. Source: authors.

Figure 6. Value (pounds sterling) of wallpaper exports from the United Kingdom, Victoria and New South Wales to New Zealand. Source: authors.

Figure 7. Advertisement for James Keir & Co, Dunedin. Harnett & Co’s Dunedin Directory for 1864, p. 112.

Figure 7. Advertisement for James Keir & Co, Dunedin. Harnett & Co’s Dunedin Directory for 1864, p. 112.

Figure 8. R E Inman & Co’s shop in the provincial buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin, January 1864. Photographer: Daniel Mundy. Source: collection of Toitū Settlers Museum, Dunedin, Album 54_35.

Figure 8. R E Inman & Co’s shop in the provincial buildings, Princes Street, Dunedin, January 1864. Photographer: Daniel Mundy. Source: collection of Toitū Settlers Museum, Dunedin, Album 54_35.

Figure 9. George Street c1870s, showing Andrew Lee’spaperhanging business to the left of Lo Keong’s fancy goods store. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Hocken Collections - Uare Taokao Hākena, University of Otago, P1911-001-011a.

Figure 9. George Street c1870s, showing Andrew Lee’spaperhanging business to the left of Lo Keong’s fancy goods store. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Hocken Collections - Uare Taokao Hākena, University of Otago, P1911-001-011a.

Figure 10. New Zealand exhibition, Furniture Court and museum, Dunedin, 1865. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago,P2011-021/3-01.

Figure 10. New Zealand exhibition, Furniture Court and museum, Dunedin, 1865. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago,P2011-021/3-01.

Figure 11. Wallpaper fragment from a house on Maitland Street, Dunedin, constructed in 1859/60. The fragment is dated between 1861 and 1875. Source: Jeremy Moyle, origin consultants, 2020. Source: Jeremy Moyle, Origin Consultants, 2020.

Figure 11. Wallpaper fragment from a house on Maitland Street, Dunedin, constructed in 1859/60. The fragment is dated between 1861 and 1875. Source: Jeremy Moyle, origin consultants, 2020. Source: Jeremy Moyle, Origin Consultants, 2020.