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Guide Rangi shows the Queen around a traditional Maori village and the impressive geysers at Whakarewarewa.

Mai Te Kapoterangi (holding child) and Turei Karaka (with cigarette) farewell Tei Tihi (second from left) and Kumeroa Te Kapoterangi (third from left) as reinforcements for the Maori Battalion depart from Rotorua in January 1944.

Between 28 August and 3 September 1943 New Zealand played host to Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States. She came to visit the American forces, inspect the work of the American Red Cross, and study the contribution of New Zealand women to the war effort.

Image of Queen watching Maori kids jumping off bridge

Sophia Hinerangi, circa 1895. She wears a korowai.

Best known as ‘Guide Sophia’ she was the principal tourist guide of the famous Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana.

Joe Warbrick was the captain, coach and selector for the New Zealand Natives' tour of Britain in 1888-89, the first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia.

Maori men and women congregate outside the Rotorua courthouse on election day, possibly in 1908.

Travellers queue to buy tickets at the Rotorua railway station booking office in the early 1930s. The inter-war years were the heyday of rail tourism in New Zealand. The office is decorated with posters and maps advertising rail trips, and it also includes a Government Tourist Bureau kiosk.

The Duke of Edinburgh receives a gift during the Maori reception at Rotorua while Minister of Maori Affairs, E.B. Corbett looks on

Eleanor Roosevelt visiting 'land girls' on a farm near Rotorua

Eleanor Roosevelt's car surrounded by interested New Zealanders at Rotorua

Eleanor Roosevelt being shown around Whakarewarewa by Guide Rangi