A replica of the Mayflower sails into New York Harbor with a welcoming fleet, November 1957.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Bathers read magazines near shoreline while floating in the Dead Sea, December 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 3

Soldiers at Camp Shelby military base in Mississippi dance with local girls, July 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 4

Sheik Jacob Boukhari poses for a photograph in Jerusalem, December 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Turkey farm in Idaho, June 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 6

Three British sailors drape themselves with their soccer jerseys in Trinidad, June 1942.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Narrow streets and streetcar in Lisbon, Portugal. Tips on mastering composition in your photographs.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 8

Vistors sit on an overlook to see scenic views in Yellowstone National Park, June 1940.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Swiss men playing 12-foot-long alpenhorns at a midsummer Alpine Festival in Switzerland, 1973.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Fishing nets dry in the early morning sunlight in a Macao harbor around 1931, the year photographer W. Robert Moore began his career at National Geographic.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Close view of a pet cat named Goldie, July 1972.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE DALE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Dolphins seen from above jump in the wake of a passing ship, 1918.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. C. MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A large group of peasants pose at the Geneva folk costume festival in Switzerland.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Landing signal officer and assistant wear experimental ear protection aboard the USS Midway, August 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 15

With a harbor view, a teataster samples from cups spread upon a table in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 16

A bird’s-eye view of a training Air Corps plane in Texas.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT

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South Africans relax on a sunny, cabana-lined beach in Cape Town, South Africa, August 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY DR. GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 18

Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 19

Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 20

The post office and general store in Castolon, Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 21

People play in water off Luquillo Beach in Puerto Rico, December 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists in the old town hall of Bremen look up at a model ship in Germany, January 1969.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Servicewomen read National Geographic Magazine at a beauty parlor in Illinois.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 24

A man shows tribal scars on his back in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, November 1919.PHOTOGRAPH BY E. TORDAY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Portrait of three peasant women in traditional clothing on a farm in Hungary, 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Swimmers walk in shallow clear waters beneath huge rocks, British Virgin Islands, November 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Victoria amazonica water lilies can reach 20 feet in circumference and support up to 300 pounds each. Perching children atop the massive leaves was all the rage in water gardens of the time. Salem, North Carolina, c. 1892. PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK HEGE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 28

A couple seated in a living room looks out a window at skiers on lawn in Duluth, Minnesota, September 1949.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART AND JACK E. FLETCHER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC29

Yachts with spinnakers set cruise off Point Loma on glinting bay in San Diego, July 1969.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 30

Dogs help a Scottish gamekeeper keep watch in Aberfoyle, Scotland, March 1919.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM REID, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A man repairs a light on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, August 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Muscles ripple as an Arabian steed rears above its trainer in Jordan, December 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The interior of La Compania Church in Quito, Ecuador, January 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACOB J. GAYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 34

Miners with knee pads in West Virginia, March 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 35

Two boys pose on a balcony with the Tenerife port in the background in Puerto Orotava, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, May 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILHELM TOBIEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A man feeds donkey sulla flowers and foliage from its own load near Gangi, Sicily, Italy, January 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Travelers look at a glass dome on a stainless-steel train car, April 1947PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A boy between two mounted lobsters caught off the New Jersey coast, February 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER L. BEASLEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Daredevil water skiers ride a foamy wake through a rock tunnel off St. George’s Bay, Beirut, Lebanon, April 1958.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 40

A tourist stops to get directions from a cop in New Mexico.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Boys exploring cave with flashlights look up in wonder near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, March 1957.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Three women watch the rushing waters of Rainbow Falls in Hilo, Hawaii.PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Vendors and pedestrians along a steep staircase in Hong Kong, November 1934.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A test engineer prepares to stride forward as a man would in the low gravity of the lunar surface at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA 45

A herd of aligned giraffes walk across savanna grass in Africa, May 1910.PHOTOGRAPH BY A. DUGMORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 46

Twins drift on raft in lake water in front of medieval castle in Sirmione, Italy, July 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE SCHERSHEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 47

Louis Leakey and his family inspect the campsite of an early hominid in Tanzania, November 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT SISSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 48

A woman stands before limestone cliffs in the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, September 1934.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Four boys bob for apples in Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A couple rides in a motorboat on Lake Villarrica in Chile, July 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 51

Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary dressed in the fur clothing he wore for the Arctic expedition, September 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT E. PEARY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A locomotive and two coaches of the “Atlantic” in railroad exhibit near Baltimore, Maryland, November 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Leaping skills make Doberman pinschers into great “police dogs.” Rushville, Indiana, December 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 54

Girls eat large swirls of cotton candy in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT M. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists look at Manhattan from a sightseeing boat on the East River, December 1954.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT SISSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 57

Swimming lessons are part of these undergraduates’ curriculum at Tulane University in New Orleans, April 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 58

Three grinning men smoke from intricately carved pipes in Austria, January 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 59

Carson City firemen play cards while awaiting a call, January 1946.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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