Media: 17 serial issues - each 32 pages
Year: 1939-1940

A pictorial record of New Zealand’s first hundred years. It was commissioned by the New Zealand Government and been produced by the Centennial Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs under the direction of the National Historical Committee.

Issue themes

VOLUME 1

1. THE BEGINNING
2. THE MAORI
3. NAVIGATORS AND EXPLORERS
4. WHALERS AND SEALERS
5. MISSIONARIES AND SETTLERS
6. THE VOYAGE OUT
7. THE SQUATTERS
8. GOLD
9. THE FOREST
10. THE MOUNTAINS
11. PASTURE LAND
12. REFRIGERATION
13. POWER
14. BREAD
15. MANUFACTURING

VOLUME 2 (only two issues for volume 2 available)

      16. TRACKS AND ROADS
      23. DRESS

Note: most issues are intact, but the covers of a few are separated