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1974, First day of competition at Christchurch Commonwealth Games

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Crash site on Mt Erebus
Dame Whina Cooper, 1987
The Freyberg Cup
Military Service Act 1916
Female MPs 1933-2014
Hutu and Kawa
All Blacks visiting Dave Gallaher's grave
Tail of Air New Zealand plane at Mt Erebus
Women voting in Auckland, 1899
Support homosexual law reform poster
Maori state house plans
Women's suffrage stamp
Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu in 1940
Union Steam Ship Company flag
Badges of Māori units in the First World War
Setting out for Normandy on D-Day
Mauser sporting rifle
Evelyn Brooke
The Wahine foundering
All Black- Maori protest poster
Anzac Day Gazette notice, 1916
Boyd incident drawing
Caesar, the Anzac dog
Stained glass, Dunedin station
Rock and pop touring bands of the 1960s
Belgian battle scene
Pioneer Battalion at Messines
Christchurch war memorial
Frank Worsley and Antarctica
Survivors of the Wahine disaster
New Zealand pub scene, 1967
Wairau incident memorial
Buller's birds
Questions for Polly Plum
Ernest Rutherford
1820s iwi movements map
Lake Taupō painting
Soldiers waiting in a trench at Gallipoli
Erebus crash site
Te Ruki Kawiti
Passchendaele memorial locomotive
Ottoman 7.65mm M1903 Mauser Rifle
New Zealand Army Special Air Service with goat mascot
New Zealand flag from Quinn's Post
Sword Beach the day after D-Day
Henry Williams
Recovery party at Tangiwai
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
The Beatles at the St George, Wellington
Webb Ellis statue
Summer holidays
Erebus memorials
Knitting for Empire
Changing cost of muskets 1814-1827
Women fundraising for Belgium, First World War
Railway songs
Tangiwai railway bridge after disaster, 1953
Traditional Māori weapons
The first state house today
David Kirk kisses the Webb Ellis Cup, 1987

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