Survival trainees set off smoke signal, spread parachute and wave in Colorado, May 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Never-before-seen images from National Geographic’s archives released to celebrate 125th anniversary(4)

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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 2

Seen from backstage, ballet dancers take a bow in the glittering hall of the Vienna Opera House, April 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 3

People on the beach in Germany as a plane flies overhead, 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILHELM TOBIEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 4

A shelter made of antlers at Yellowstone National Park.A shelter made of antlers at Yellowstone National Park.PHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICPHOTOGRAPH BY EDWIN L. WISHERD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 5

Portrait of two Mexican Chihuahuas, April 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 6

An informal portrait of photographer and explorer Luis Marden in Chichen Itza, Mexico, 1936.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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People swim and swing from ring to ring in the Russian River in California, August 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A curious cow on a hilltop tries to nibble a woman’s camera in Switzerland, November 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANC & JEAN SHORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 9

Swimming teams huddle onshore at the annual Royal Hobart Regatta in Tasmania, Australia, December 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY HOWELL WALKER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 10

A close view of the puffer fish found in Florida’s warm waters, January 1922.PHOTOGRAPH BY L. F. WILLIAMZ, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Baseball is played by Caracas youth in a city sandlot in Venezuela, August 1976.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT MADDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 12

The Golden Horn at Galatea in Constantinople, now modern-day Istanbul.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Friends gather around a summer campfire at Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, June 1970.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Aerial view of harbor created to supply the invasion of Normandy, June 1944.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT 15

A black and white photograph of a giant dust storm in 1937.PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRIS JOHNS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 16

A 32-foot-tall concrete brontosaurus dwarfs curious zoogoers in Alberta, Canada, December 1961.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Boats ferry through a canal to bypass the Peloponnesus in Corinth, Greece, December 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID BOYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A young girl tamps down grapes to make room for more basketfuls in Germany, April 1967.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE DALE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A woman perches above red algae in a stagnant pool inside Anemone Cave on Mount Desert Island, Maine, September 1952.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Boys run before a crowd in the “Junior Race" at Eton College in Windsor, England, August 1919.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY CENTRAL NEWS PHOTO SERVICE

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Swimmers compete in Hong Kong’s Annual Cross-harbor Race, 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 22

A baby elephant stretches its trunk out to a child at the London Zoo, September 1915.PHOTOGRAPH BY A. W. CUTLER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 23

Flight attendants stand and talk beneath airline advertising posters, March 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A girl stands in front of her hut on the Painted Desert in Arizona in 1929.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A reception is held at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, August 1990.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 26

The glow of an atomic bomb test draws Las Vegas casino workers, March 1953.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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An invalid soldier stands beside a cannon in Paris, 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A rhinoceros charges the photographer in Africa, May 1910.PHOTOGRAPH BY A. DUGMORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Sightseers park to watch a Stratocruiser taxi across an underpass in Queens, New York, March 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 30

Women try on hats in a variety of colors in Moscow, March 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 31

A photographer and a geologist photograph the Taal volcano erupting in the Philippines, April 1912.NO CREDIT GIVEN 32

U.S. military tanks parade near the Capitol Building in Washington DC, 1947.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A Geisha girl poses in her Kimono in Kyoto, June 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANKLIN PRICE KNOTT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A snow covered double header coal train finishes its run, November 1918.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE 35

The base camp of an expedition to Arnhem Land, Australia.PHOTOGRAPH BY HOWELL WALKER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 36

Man testing early television equipment in New York, 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Sheer 100-foot cliffs of eroded ash rise before Mount Katolinat in Alaska.PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 38

Fashion students add last touches to models’ wild peacock costumes in Vienna, Austria, February 1959.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 39

To get ready for Easter festivities, some men have their hair trimmed on Karpathos Island in Greece, April 1982.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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This glacial lake sits between mountains and a wild crag in Bavaria, Germany, December 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Two women in Southeast Asia discuss the day’s news, May 1921.PHOTOGRAPH BY M. BRANGER AND SONS

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Fishermen load their catch of sardines into crates on the Adriatic Sea, May 1970.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Women pose in front of their surfboards on Waikiki beach in Honolulu, November 1938.Women pose in front of their surfboards on Waikiki beach in Honolulu, November 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICPHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A view of the grand white castle of Schloss Neushwanstein in Germany, 1925.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A Sicilian teenage girl draped in lace and a scarf, December 1909.PHOTOGRAPH BY BARON WILHELM VON GLOEDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Porters transport a car on long poles across a stream in Nepal, January 1950.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENZTEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Ear-deep in watermelon, a boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Visitors stare in awe at the stained glass windows of Sainte Chapelle in Paris, May 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY BRUCE DALE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Two girls in bathing suits sit on a concrete ledge in Bucharest, Romania, November 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILHELM TOBIEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Paratroopers in training land in a dusty field at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, February 1962.PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Two Amharic women pose holding umbrellas to shade themselves in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 1931.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 52

A bright orange river of sparks from a campfire cascades from a high cliff in Yosemite National Park, May 1958.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Saint Christopher decorates an archway over a cobblestone street in Bavaria, Germany, March 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE F. MOBLEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 54

A couple in a boat paddle on a lily pond and collect flowers in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington D.C., 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES MARTIN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A sportsman shows off a mounted salmon to his friends in New Hampshire, April 1943.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 56

A young vendor at the market in Fort de Kock, Indonesia, poses by her peppers, February 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A young North American girl jumps her horse over a ditch in Mexico, May 1914.PHOTOGRAPH BY SHIRLEY C. HULSE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A raft traverses Hermit Rapid on the Colorado River in Arizona.PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER MEAYERS EDWARDS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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People swim and sunbathe around a fountain in salt water swimming pool in Devon, England, February 1946.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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