Images from The Camera in the Crowd by Christopher Pugsley

Returning home after reception for the American officers of the Great White Fleet at the formal opening of the Rotorua Bath House on 13 August 1908. Still from James McDonald’s film American Officers’ Visit to Rotorua, on behalf of the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, NTSV F3033.

Killing the whale. Still from Sydney Taylor’s New Zealand Whale Hunting with Motor Launches in Cook Strait. NTSV F880.

Smiling ladies board the 4:55pm Wellington-bound train after a day at the Palmerston North A & P Show, 15 November 1901. Still from John Henry Brown’s Departure of the Wellington Train from Palmerston North Station after the Show. NTSV F2142.

At the start. Still from Brandon Haughton’s Taranaki Circular Road Race, 1912. NTSV F9312.

Soldiers of the New Zealand Division at the end of their trek to the Somme battlefield in early September 1916. Photographed by Lieutenant Ernest Brooks who last met the New Zealanders on Gallipoli. Q1243, IWM.

Sergeant Major James Ryan, captain of the NZEF All Blacks, receives the King’s Cup from His Majesty George V at Twickenham on 19 April 1919 before the start of the New Zealand versus France match. A civilian film cameraman records it for history. The match was also filmed by Sergeant Charlie Barton, NZEF official cameraman. Photographer: H.H. Green/L.G. Hahn, UKSeries, UK414, 1/2-014210-G, ATL, Wellington.

Hand-coloured still of Charles Newham’s Main Trunk Express Smash. NTSV F4917.