A picture might be worth a thousand words but National Geographic photographs leaves us speechless. Known for their captivating daily pictures, they also offer an opportunity to dive into to the archives of previously unpublished or forgotten images.
The project called Found was established in 2013 to honor NatGeo’s 125th anniversary. The curators say, that their mission is to bring the pictures back to life by sharing them to new audiences. And even some of the dates or locations are missing, the images capture perfect moments making them timeless.
More info: NatGeo Found (h/t: DeMilked)
Tourists explore massive dead tree with tunnel cut out for a road in Sequoia National Forest, May 1951
Four boys bob for apples in Martinsburg, West Virginia, 1939
A wave of rock shaped by wind and rain towers above a plain in Western Australia, September 1963
A regular at Le Louis IX in Paris, “Caramel” keeps a client company, May 1988
Loggers and the giant Mark Twain redwood cut down in California, 1892
Cat and white rat abide in peace. When different species grow up together, they often lose their enmity, April 1964
Women enjoy the benefits of a heated whirlpool in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 1973
Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967
Hikers stand near the top of a natural rock bridge on Mt. Rainier, Washington, May 1963
A little boy is dwarfed by a supersized cabbage in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, July 1959
American bison charge through heavy snow in Yellowstone National Park, November 1967
A woman stands in front of her flower stand on the Rambla in Barcelona, Spain, March 1929
A woman working on a mosaic of Mary and baby Jesus in Vatican City
A combination sand and rain storm batters a lone automobile in Kuwait, May 1969
Traffic lights are made in Shreveport, Louisiana, and sent around the U.S. and abroad, December 1947
John F. Kennedy’s coffin lies in state beneath the Capitol’s dome, November 1963
A young Kenyan woman holds her pet deer in Mombassa, March 1909
A man sells goldfish in baggies tied to a tree branch in Beirut, Lebanon, February 1983
A flock of birds fly up from an enclosed courtyard in Old Havana, December 1987
A dromedary camel and rider in the peach blossom festival in Fort Valley, Georgia, May 1925
A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940
A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Virginia
A welder works on cowls for liberty ships in California, 1942
Roaring out of Auyan-Tepui’s wall, a waterfall plummets over 3,000 feet in Venezuela, March 1963
Men observe the giant statues of Easter Island in Polynesia, December 1922
Girls standing in water holding bunches of American Lotus, Amana, Iowa, November 1938
A well-worn stairway leads to a house on Oahu’s North Shore, November 1979
Children play in pool they have dug out of the sand on the beach in Le Havre, France, 1936
The first explorers to descend to the deepest part of the ocean were Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard in the bathyscaphe Trieste, January 23, 1960. 52 years later, James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGER journeyed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below sea level
A balloon from Anchorage, Alaska, flies over Cook Inlet, 1986
Boys dressed up in school uniforms pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953
A man burns prickly pear to feed cattle during a drought in Texas
Locals relax by the tulip fields along the canal in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1931
Irish Guards remain at attention after one guardsman faints in London, England, June 1966
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