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Story: Otago region

Union Steam Ship Company advertisement

Dunedin’s biggest 19th-century business was the Union Steam Ship Company. In this 1893 supplement to the Dunedin Star, information about sailings is almost buried amidst an array of images of the company’s home city and its buildings.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-E-BUILDINGS-Dunedin-1893-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Business until 1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/22660/union-steam-ship-company-advertisement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.