Gulls take food from travelers on a passenger boat off the Channel Islands, Great Britain, May 1971.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Never-before-seen images from National Geographic’s archives released to celebrate 125th anniversary(5)

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National Geographic pages roll off a press above a printer’s head in Chicago, Illinois, December 1960.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2

Greek emigrants to Australia take a farewell tour of the Parthenon, December 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY OTIS IMBODEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 3

An informal group portrait of a family with nine sons in Nova Scotia, Canada, March 1916.PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 4

A raft rests peacefully on Switzerland’s Lake Thun, September 1985.PHOTOGRAPH BY JODI COBB, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Runway model shows off gown made of Como silk in Belagio, Italy, July 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE SCHERSCHEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Three scientists sit inside a fire lit bat cave in Panama, August 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE SHIRAS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A shark guides migrating salmon into the shallows off Baxter Cliffs in Australia, April 1995.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 8

A lighthouse keeper warns vessels of Margaret Brock Reef in Australia, April 1970.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE SCHERSCHEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The Moulin Rouge at Montmartre in Paris, 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Four-foot long cod are slung across the backs of cod fishermen, February 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY A. B. WILTSE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 11

Sons of lumberjacks try to upset one another on rolling log in Hayward, Wisconsin, Feburary 1957.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 12

Sabra sports cars are named for a prickly but sweet cactus fruit. A Sabra factory in Haifa, Israel, March 1965.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 13

A child watches as a woman sews a star on a United States flag, 1917.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAY SMITH, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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"As the settler encroaches further and further upon the cattle country, the cowboy and the romance of his calling are rapidly approaching the point where they will exist only on the motion picture screen and in the Wild West show," from an April 1916 feature on the United States.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANKLIN PRICE KNOTT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A woman watches a parade of different Fiat models driven around the test track of Fiat’s Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 16

Crowds engulf Broadway on New Year’s Eve, January 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE F. MOBLEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 17

A photograph from Yerkes Observatory depicts nebulae in the Pleiades, August 1919.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY YERKES OBSERVATORY 18

A monkey rides in a model airplane in New Hampshire, January 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART AND JOHN E. FLETCHER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Girls in summer attire hold cup, ribbons, and awards they’ve won in Washington D.C., 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A redwood log splashes into the water near a mill in Caspar, California, Feburary 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A mailman stops and comfortably sits in a mailbox to eat his lunch in Hays, Kansas, November 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACK FLETCHER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The three Pyramids of Giza are reflected in a pool of water, September 1926.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Fairgoers in new-model cars ride through displays of Earth’s history at the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, New York.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Mexicans moving a home along the river highway in Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Three shafts of sunlight illuminate the basilica and its mosaic floor in the Vatican, December 1971.PHOTOGRAPH BY ALBERT MOLDVAY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Ragtime piano player salutes audience as he stands near a grand piano in Durango, Colorado, August 1969.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 27

A natural swimming hole in Prairie Creek Park in California, June 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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An old dog walks on a treadmill as part of an animal health study at Cornell University, November 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 29

A sunlit view of Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border, September 1925.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 30

Aerial of an apartment development in Brooklyn called The Vandaveer Estates, March 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A woman poses in rippled sand dunes near Crescent City, California, June 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 32

Shoppers inspect a Corvette at a daily auto auction in Kuwait City, November 1987.PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE RAYMER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A young girl dressed in traditional clothing leans against a wall in Guatemala, November 1926.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACOB J. GAYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Aerial view of seaside sunbathers encamped on beach towels or under umbrellas in Ocean City, Maryland.PHOTOGRAPH BY EMORY KRISTOF, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 35

A dog rests on a couch in a store in Texas, 1992.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE DALE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A quiet mosque in Palestine, December 1926.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 37

Two young Chinese girls chat with each other in a moon gate in a courtyard of a Chinese home, 1932.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Lee Johnson (left) lets his friends handle his pony Gypsy, which he keeps in a stable behind his home in the Clondalkin district of Dublin, Ireland, April 1994.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A man pulls open the gate to the Magnolia Plantation in South Carolina, May 1926.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACOB J. GAYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Boys play with toy sailboats along the Nile south of Aswan, Egypt, October 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORG GERSTER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A man shows off his tattoos in a pub in Boston, England in 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 42

The sailing ship Terra Nova is framed by an ice grotto in Antarctica, 1911.PHOTOGRAPH BY HERBERT G. PONTING, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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An elevated view of the private gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1972.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 44

A night shot on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN LOCKE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 45

A yellow and black porkfish swims in the reef off the Florida Keys, January 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY W.H. LONGLEY AND CHARLES MARTIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Loggers and the giant Mark Twain redwood cut down in California, 1892.PHOTOGRAPH BY N.E. BECKWITH

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A cable car stops to pick up passengers on Hyde Street in San Francisco, 1954.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Explorer Robert E. Peary in sheepskin, 1914-15.PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSEPH H. BAILEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Splashing into Lake George in New York, 1945.This photo and others from the National Geographic archives are being auctioned by Christie’s in an exclusive, online-only sale from July 19-29, PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50

A Soviet soldier surrounded by colleagues photographs May Day parades in Moscow, March 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 51

Enjoying the pool at Jones Beach State Park, New York, June 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Locals walk the streets of Madison Square near the Flatiron Building in New York City, July 1918.This photo and others from the National Geographic archives are being auctioned by Christie’s in an exclusive, online-only sale from July 19-29, detailsPHOTOGRAPH BY W.W. ROCK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Locals enjoy the summer sun at Liberty Lake in Spokane, Washington, November 1932.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A partly eclipsed sun is seen from a flying scientific observatory, November 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 1935.This photo and others from the National Geographic archives are being auctioned by Christie’s in an exclusive, online-only sale from July 19-29, PHOTOGRAPH BY L. A. SANCHEZ, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Sutherland Falls thunders down a 1,904-foot drop from Lake Quill in New Zealand, January 1972.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. AMOS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Evening rush hour in Houston, Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 58

Women attend an archery class at the University of Texas, March 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The world famous Brown Derby Restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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