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Lake Taupō painting
New Zealand Army Special Air Service with goat mascot
Bravo Island settlement, 1879
Moutoa Gardens protest
Webb Ellis statue
Hōne Heke sketch
Christchurch Bridge of Remembrance war memorial
Sword Beach the day after D-Day
The first state house today
Arawa war memorial, Rotorua
Murderers Bay, 1642
Lion Rock, Piha war memorial
The first state house, 1978
Tangiwai railway bridge after disaster, 1953
Memorial to Bess the horse
Traditional Māori weapons
David Kirk kisses the Webb Ellis Cup, 1987
Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika
Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme
Military mascot Freda the dog
Dunedin railway station
Kaitāia First World War memorial
Teaching te reo Māori
Anzac cyclists
Palmerston North war memorial
Hōne Heke, Kawiti and Hariata Rongo
Nuclear-free badges
Bishop Pompallier
Atatürk memorial in Wellington
A day off for Christmas
Purification suffrage cartoon
Map showing the tunnels at Arras
Devil's music, Timberjack
Capture of the walls of Le Quesnoy, 1920
The story of Ponga and Puhihuia
Anti USA-prohibition poster
First use of tanks in battle
Grocery shopping
Wreckage of Car Z - Tangiwai disaster
Merchant Navy propaganda poster
Foreshore and seabed hīkoi
HMS New Zealand in Lyttelton
Tinui war memorial
Report of first Labour Day, 1890
Moore-Jones' Gallipoli landscapes
New Zealand Wars map
Samuel Frickleton VC
Map of Greece and Crete, 1941
Cooking on a hangi
The first state house, 1937
Tobruk campaign map, 1941-1942
Arriving at Guadalcanal, 1943
Yvette Williams jumping, 1954
Maori (Pioneer) Battalion flag
Wellington-Lyttelton yacht race tragedy
Volunteers recover a Wahine liferaft
Map showing missionary influence
Military mascot Major Major
Petone railway station war memorial
Brunner coal mine disaster memorial

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