To commemorate their 125th year of publication, National Geographic has released some astounding, never before published photos.
A Thai woman poses in a Panung, the national costume, 1907.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA rainbow arches over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA portrait of an Ojibway, or Native Chippewa Indian girl, 1907.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA dog observes a gramophone during a South Pole expedition, 1911.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA child looks on as stars are sewn onto a US flag, 1917.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA World War I soldier bandages a Red Cross canine helper, 1917.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA girl pets a calf in Scotland, 1918.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA man herds sheep with the help of his collies in Scotland, 1919.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA police dog biting some ankles during a training exercise, 1919.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDLocals relax by the tulip fields along the canal in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1931.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDInside a Canadian Railway classroom, 1932.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA man roaming Chicago’s famous LaSalle Street train station, 1936.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA Drugstore Cowboy prepares to make deliveries, 1938.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA blue-ribbon winning mare with its owner in Waterloo, Iowa, 1939.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDPeople sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA dog leaps over a woman, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDAn x-ray demonstration of the new Westinghouse electric razor, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDAn Ouled Nail woman in Algeria wears a tattoo customary for dancers, 1949.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDHillside houses overlook smoke-belching steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDForce-feeding a shake to ensure its venom supply, 1950.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA demonstration shows how a metal aircraft sheds lightning, 1950.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDUniformed boys pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDChildren play barefoot in a cactus garden on the Canary Islands, 1955.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDNiagara Falls illuminated with rainbow flood lights, 1956.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA man examines the teeth of a 10-month-old Alaskan Malamute puppy near the South Pole, 1957.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA woodman notches a felled tree’s trunk for sectioning in Western Australia, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDPeople picnic on the rocky heights overlooking Harpers Ferry in Maryland, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDPrincess Grace Kelly in Monaco, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDLong exposure of Caracas, Venezuela, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA chorus line high kicks during a show at Cafe Le Can Can in Miami Beach, Florida, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDSurfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDChildren playing at sunset in Ontario, Canada, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDWith claws bared, a kitten attacks its own mirrored reflection, 1964.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA performance of the opera, Aida, in New York City, 1964.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDMembers of the Irish Guard ignore their fainted comrade, 1966.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDThe Chicago skyline as a backdrop for rooftop party-goers, 1967.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDBison roaming Yellowstone National Park, 1967.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDMarines walk the San Diego streets amid neon signs, 1969.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA Ragtime piano man enjoying the spotlight, 1969.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDAn Egyptian belly dancer performs for tourists in a nightclub in Cairo, 1972.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDWomen farming in sugar beet fields, 1974.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDPatrons of a KFC in Abu Dhabi, 1975.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDKids in Murmansk, former Soviet Union endure their daily dose of Vitamin D by lamp-light, 1977.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDA shadow of a man holding a bicycle appears on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUNDNuns in Peru take a break to toss a ball around, 1998.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
In 2013, National Geographic began to release many rare photographs from its archives, putting history at our fingertips like never before.
The professionally-curated collection goes by the name of FOUND, and offers a clear vision of cultures and places lost to time.
"We hope to bring new life to these images and the history they represent by sharing them with audiences far and wide," the magazine says. "Many of the images are missing their original date or location, but each represents a story, captured in time yet in many ways timeless."
In the gallery above, you'll find a chronological collection of 45 images that were once lost but now are found.
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