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1974, First day of competition at Christchurch Commonwealth Games

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Ōrākau NZ Wars memorial
Raurimu Spiral poster
Opening the Johnsonville electric train service
Reminiscences of a wanderer
Alexander Godley
Barnet Burns
Labour Day parade
Hydraulic mining diagram
School dental nurse at work
Evacuating wounded from Anzac Cove
Kiwi klassics
New Zealand soldiers at Trieste, 1945
Wellington railway station
Influenza pandemic depot, 1918
South African War art
Railways poster, 1920s
Musket Wars map
Influenza at Seacliff Hospital
Pai Mārire supporters
Britomart Transport Centre
Tangiwai book cover
Auckland cenotaph
Kororāreka (Russell), 1845
German paratroops over Heraklion
Execution of Minnie Dean
Capture of German Samoa, 1914
Anzac Day landings at Gallipoli
Minnie Dean
US Marines arriving at Wellington, 1942
Tikitiki church war memorial
Emigration poster
Ted Morgan boxes for gold, 1928
RNZAF Corsairs over Guadalcanal, 1944
Samuel Parnell
Norman Jones speaking against homosexual law reform
New Zealand Memorial at Chunuk Bair
Allied prisoners of war on Crete
English assisted immigrant women arriving
Police by Tangiwai train wreckage
Boer Mauser rifle
Merchant Navy WW2 identification badge
A 1940s family
Olaf Nelson and the place of afakasi in Samoa
Island Bay war memorial
Henry and William Williams
Old Parliament Buildings, Wellington
Rugby, racing and beer
Armistice Day and the spread of influenza
Stalag XB Sandbostel POW camp
Wellington College war medals and memories
Criminal Code against homosexuals, 1893
Departure of Maori soldiers, 1944
First landing on Antarctica
Otago Peninsula war memorial
Richard Byrd memorial on Mt Victoria
The first public library
NZR floor tiles, Dunedin station
Matakana War Memorial
Writing about New Zealand’s internal wars
HMS Wahine during the First World War

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