Laughing kitten  1950s Eric Lee-Johnson, New Zealand Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Milford Sound - Cascade from Mitre  Circa 1884 Burton Brothers, New Zealand Purchased 1981 with New Zealand Lottery Board funds

Staircase, Australian pavilion, New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington  04.1940 Eric Lee-Johnson, Wellington Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Toy, ’Truck’  Circa 1940s H. E. Ramsey Limited, Auckland Purchased 2007

Church, Penrhyn  1886 Thomas Andrew Gift of Alison Beckett and Robert McPherson, 1996

`aumakua hulu manu Kuka`ilimoku (feathered image)  1700s Maker unknown, Hawaii Gift of Lord St Oswald, 1912

Untitled (rugby player)  1931 ? Gordon Burt, New Zealand Printed from negative owned by William Main, 1979

Mount De La Beche from the Tasman Glacier  1893 George Moodie, Southern Alps

Queenstown, Wakatipu, NZ  circa 1880 William Hart, Queenstown

"Exotic various orders, Entomology"  1995 Laurence Aberhart, Wellington Purchased 1996 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

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