Fifty-two stories high, city noises fade and vistas expand. Chicago, June 1967.
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic
Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
A couple inspects a beach house destroyed after a storm in March 1962.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
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
A group of scarabs from the Scarabaeid family, July 1929.
Photograph by Edwin L. Wisherd, National Geographic
Students swing to a jazz band in a bamboo-lined student center in Vienna, February 1959.
Photograph by Volkmar K. Wenztel, National Geographic
Buckets of iron ore are transported to a major steelworks in Hunedoara, Romania, November 1975.
Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic
Luray Cavern’s cave pool has become a wishing well where visitors toss in coins, Virginia, June 1974.
Photograph by David Boyer, National Geographic
People strolling through a park in Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.
Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic
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
Two boys fishing in Connecticut.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
A young couple peers over the edge of Hopi Point into the Grand Canyon, May 1955.
Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic
An Autochrome depicts a 1920’s gas station in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Photograph by Edwin L. Wisherd, National Geographic
Bathing beauties emerge from a “solarium” (a tanning booth), in St. Petersburg, Florida, June 1929.
Photograph by Clifton R. Adams, National Geographic
A close view of a male lion photographed with a flashlight at night in Africa, May 1910.
Photograph by A. Dugmore, National Geographic
