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Henry and William Williams
Stockaded hills and pa, 1830s painting
Haka on board the Astrolabe, 1827
Kororareka, 1838
South seas whaling painting, 1820s
Thomas Kendall, Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820
Port Nicholson, c1840
Painting of William Deans, 1843
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, 1823
The Cuba at anchor, 1840
Jillett's Whaling Station, Kapiti Island
Sydney barracks, 1857
Te Wainokenoke and Nohorua
Aborigines in Sydney, 1830
James Busby
Queen Victoria, 1841
Kohukohu, Hokianga, 1839
Sketch of Maori pa site, 1837
Sugar Loaf Rock missionary station
Painting of Te Aro pa, 1847
Kauri tree sawyers, Kaipara
Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi painting
First campsite at new town of Auckland, 1840
Horotutu, Bay of Islands, 1859
Maori meeting at European house, 1840s
HMS Herald at Stewart Island, 1840
Taraia Ngakuti te Tumuhuia
Thomas Bunbury
Waikato leaders Te Moanaroa and Te Awaitaia
Hone Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororareka
Government House, Auckland in the 1840s
George Grey
Ahuriri Harbour in 1850s
Hone Heke sketch
The 1835 Declaration of Independence