Images
Bodgies and widgies
Maori Women's Welfare League, 1953
Johnny Devlin - New Zealand's Elvis
Wellington-Lyttelton yacht race tragedy
Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme
South Africa vs Hawke's Bay programme
Plunket nurse weighing a baby
Rimutaka tunnel collapse, 1952
Fridge advert from the 1950s
Ernst Plischke
Nevile Lodge
Norman Read
Brian Barratt-Boyes stamp
Video
Film: royal couple arrive in NZ, 1953
Film clip: unveiling parliamentary centenary plaque, 1956
Film showing scenes from the 1954 election
Athletes prepare for 1954 Commonwealth Games
Film: Antarctic Adventure pt 1
Wellington santa parade in 1958
1956 rugby ball and John Minto helmet from Te Papa
Sound
Sound clip: Yvette Williams at the 1952 Olympics
Sound: the end of the Legislative Council
Sound: Aunt Daisy's beetroot chutney recipe
Sound: Aunt Daisy's cornflour blancmange
Sound: Bob Jones discusses sex in the 1950s
Sound clip: executions at Mt Eden Prison
Sound file: the Mazengarb Report
Interactive
First flights to Antarctica
1950 Empire Games rowing at Karapiro