Acknowledge No Frontier is the story the story of New Zealand's early provinces by historian Andre Brett
Nelson in 1842. John Waring Saxton, PUBL-0011-06-2, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Dunedin and its harbour as viewed from Stafford Street in 1849, not long after the foundation of the Otago settlement. Charles Henry Kettle, C-010-001-a, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Revell Street on 2 March 1868, not long after Hokitika became capital of the new Westland County. Daniel Mundy, PA1-f-041-38, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
The Parnell railway tunnel under construction in 1865, before work ground to a halt. It was replaced in 1915 by a new double-track tunnel and used as a temporary air-raid shelter in World War II. 4-126, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries
Commercial buildings along Shakespeare Road, Napier, in 1862.
PA1-q-193-072, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Charles Barraud’s 1869 watercolour of the difficult road across the Rimutaka Range.
C-003-005, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
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