Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, June 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Never-before-seen images from National Geographic’s Archives Released to Celebrate 125th Anniversary (3)

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Signpost on Kanton Island lists mileage to cities served by Pan American World Airways, January 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY HOWELL WALKER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The National Symphony Orchestra performs on the Potomac River, March 1942.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourist touches fragments of colossal head and hand of Constantine in Rome, December 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT SISSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Actors dress for a pageant as Britannia and her four knights in Hampshire, England, November 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Spectators gather around a dying finback whale in Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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East German women harvesting sugar beets, September 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY GORDON GAHAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair in 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 8

A wave of rock shaped by wind and rain towers above a plain in Western Australia, September 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT B. GOODMAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Men dry betel nuts in George Town, Malaysia, 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A regular at Le Louis IX in Paris, “Caramel” keeps a client company, May 1988.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 11

Girls watch artist painting picture of statue of Flemish artist in Bruges, Belgium, May 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A hunter among dozens of Pacific walrus heads, killed for their tusks, Bering Sea, March 1911.PHOTOGRAPH BY BEVERLY B. DOBBS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Apprentice air traffic controllers train with model aircraft at Andrews Air Base in Maryland, March 1957.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT F. SISSON AND DONALD MCBAIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 14

Tourists explore eroded clay rock formations in Nevada, 1946.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Portrait of boy scouts at Abinger Hammer on a Sunday hike in Surrey, England, February 1932.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 16

Second Avenue, the main business street in Fairbanks, Alaska, with Christmas decorations lighting the street. Christmas Eve was 40 degrees below zero.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 17

A close view of a male lion photographed with a flashlight at night in Africa, May 1910.PHOTOGRAPH BY A. DUGMORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Bathing beauties emerge from a “solarium” (a tanning booth), in St. Petersburg, Florida, June 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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An Autochrome depicts a 1920’s gas station in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A young couple peers over the edge of Hopi Point into the Grand Canyon, May 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN LOCKE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Two boys fishing in Connecticut.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 22

View of the Palace of Maharaja’s pond from the Island of the Sultans in Udaipur, India, 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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People strolling through a park in Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE F. MOBLEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Luray Cavern’s cave pool has become a wishing well where visitors toss in coins, Virginia, June 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID BOYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas.Navy pilots test their steadiness and muscular coordination in Corpus Christi, Texas.PHOTOGRAPH BY THE U.S. NAVYPHOTOGRAPH BY THE U.S. NAVY 26

Buckets of iron ore are transported to a major steelworks in Hunedoara, Romania, November 1975.PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 27

Students swing to a jazz band in a bamboo-lined student center in Vienna, February 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 28

A group of scarabs from the Scarabaeid family, July 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A view of the city as seen from the fountain of Santa Maria in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A couple inspects a beach house destroyed after a storm in March 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 32

Fifty-two stories high, city noises fade and vistas expand. Chicago, June 1967.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 33

Part of Madrid’s old city walls stands as monumental gate in traffic circle, December 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 34

A wrapped juvenile camel rides between packs on a camel’s back in Western Australia, December 1916.PHOTOGRAPH BY C. P. SCOTT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 35

A married student studies as his wife serves dinner to their daughter in Coral Gables, Florida, November 1950.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 36

Children attendants gather supplies for an Arab diner in Algeria, February 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A “drugstore cowboy” preparing to deliver orders on his bicycle in Texas, 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists atop the Chicago Tribune building look down on the Chicago River, the site of Old Fort Dearborn.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A temporary vacant lot serves as driving range amid high rise buildings, December 1979.PHOTOGRAPH BY H. EDWARD KIM, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 40

A Royal Mail bus with armed guards heads out from Razmak to Jandola, April 1946.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and President of the Society, admires new globes on a conveyor belt in a Chicago plant, December 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 42

A view of two dead cones that dot the floor of the Haleakala Crater in Hawaii, February 1924.PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 43

Researchers prepare for a flight in the stratosphere balloon in South Dakota, 1935.PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Students from five states smile through the gate of Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, March 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The bronze lion at the Nelson Monument in Trafalgar Square, September 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY EMIL P. ALBRECHT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Girls in swimsuits sip from a water fountain in New York, July 1948.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A Lipizann horse leaps through the air with a rider on its back in Vienna, Austria, September 1958.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 48

People on steep slope overlook western headland of Martha’s Vineyard, August 1950.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT SISSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 49

A German shepherd is accepted for sentry duty by the Coast Guard, January 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Sunbathers shelter from chilly North Sea breezes in sand pits, August 1977.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MADDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 51

A large group of actors relax and talk on the lawn at Monticello in Virginia, December 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACOB J. GAYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 52

A police dog bites the ankle of man during a training session, March 1919.PHOTOGRAPH BY THE PUBLIC LEDGER SERVICE 53

San Blas Indians crack coconuts for copra in Panama, November 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Alexander Graham Bell’s tetrahedral tower is unveiled in 1907 in Nova Scotia.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE BELL COLLECTION

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A girl peers cautiously over a precipitous edge of a volcanic crater in Hawaii, June 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL ZAHL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 56

Cars are seemingly stacked atop one another in Frankfurt’s airport parking lot.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 57

A matador poses in full regalia with an embroidered cape in Colombia, 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A balloon vendor runs across a road with a trailing mass of balloons in Buenos Aires, November 1921.PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWTON W. GULICK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A sailplane pilot glides high above Innsbruck and the Inn River in Austria, July 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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