Untitled. From the series: Night trials  Circa 1956 Eric Lee-Johnson, Waimamaku Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Paper doll  C 1958 Maker unknown

Hyalogyra expansa Marshall, 1988; holotype

Reconnaissance of Terra, Waimamakau, Northland  1957 Eric Lee-Johnson, Waimamaku Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Figurehead  1995 Laurence Aberhart, Wellington Purchased 1996 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Untitled. From the series: Night trials  1957 Eric Lee-Johnson, Waimamaku Purchased 1997 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Squads parading on square  1940 - 1941 Anthony Gross, England Gift of the New Zealand Government, 1949

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

"Cleopatra" in Domain Cricket Ground  1914 Robert Walrond, Auckland Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

Poster, ’If you don’t need it...’  Early 1940s Alex McLaren, Canada Gift of Mr C H Andrews, 1967

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