Built in 1863 at Dunstan (Clyde). Rebuilt in schist in 1900. In 1923 it was listed in Wise's Post Office Directory as the Dunstan (proprietor A R Peterson), but in 1926 it was listed as the Commercial Hotel (Clyde), proprietor Alexander Richards.
Dunstan Hotel (Clyde, N.Z.)
Powell, David, jnr fl. 1860s :A diggings township, the Dunstan, Otago (1860s) / by Davi...
Date: 1863 - 1870
By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd
Reference: C-112-042-b
Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.
Powell, David, jnr fl. 1860s :A diggings township, the Dunstan, Otago (1860s) / by Davi...
Date: 1863 - 1870
By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd
Reference: C-112-042-a
Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.
Photographs of New Zealand
Date: 1940s-1979
From: Rowland, Lorna Waring, 1908-1988: Papers and photographs
By: Dominion (Newspaper); New Zealand free lance (Newspaper)
Reference: PAColl-2552-08
Description: Photographs, some taken by Lorna Rowland and some by other photographers, in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes photographs of the Harbour Defence Motor Launch 'Alert' in Dusky Sound; views of French Pass township from the water, Elaine Bay, French Pass lighthouse, and the road between French Pass and Nelson taken from the saddle between Elaine Bay and Squally Cove; French Pass lighthouse; a deerstalkers' hut; the Hermitage; the jetty at Stewart Island; the 'Pamir' (photographed in 1947) and signed by its Master H S [Horace Stanley] Collier; a museum exhibit of a black shag; two photographs of the Dunstan Hotel, Clyde; and a 1979 Forest Service photograph of Hoffmans Dam at Naseby taken by Grant L Bulling. It is possible that some of these photographs were illustrations for articles as some of them are marked up as for publication; some have inscriptions. Some photographs are very similar to those taken for Rowland's "Three Islands" articles in 'The Freelance'. See Library reference PAColl-2552-06. Negatives of some prints at are Library references 1/4-132619, 1/4-132621, 1/4/132653, and 1/4-132718. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 24 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 colour original photographic print(s).
Powell, David, jnr fl. 1860s :A diggings township, the Dunstan, Otago (1860s) / by Davi...
Date: 1863 - 1870
By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd
Reference: C-112-042
Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm.
Commercial Hotel, Clyde
Date: [between 1925 and 1928]
From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand
By: Richards, Alexander, active 1920s
Reference: Pan-2096-F
Description: Panoramic view of a large two-storeyed schist hotel centre left. Signs read "Licensed to sell spirituous liquids. Alex. Richards. Commercial Hotel". Fire escapes outside upper floor windows, iron roof. Another two-storeyed building on the right with verandahs on both floors. Three cars and a truck parked outside the hotel (number plates where visible: NZ97-511, NZ97-510, NZ95-900). Road runs up the centre of the image. High stone wall on the far right with the roof of a house visible. Two groups of men and boys outside the hotel, and a man with a small girl and boy standing by the right-hand car. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Alex Richards. Cm. Hotel, Clyde. 3 B&W. Block out Dunstan on hotel; Marginal notes on negative - 2 2 2 2 2 2 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 115.1 cm Processing information: Date updated 5 April 2023 following information provided by a staff member.
Mail coach about to leave the township of Dunstan
Date: [ca 1880s]
From: Post and telegraph collection :Mainly mail coach photographs ca. 1880's.
Reference: 1/4-019560-F
Description: Mail coach, and passengers, about to leave the township of Dunstan (now known as Clyde) for Roxburgh, circa 1880s. The Dunstan Hotel is alongside, and the Hartley Arms Hotel is also just visible. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative