To commemorate their 125th year of publication, National Geographic has released some astounding, never before published photos.
A Thai woman poses in a Panung, the national costume, 1907.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A rainbow arches over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A portrait of an Ojibway, or Native Chippewa Indian girl, 1907.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A dog observes a gramophone during a South Pole expedition, 1911.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A child looks on as stars are sewn onto a US flag, 1917.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A World War I soldier bandages a Red Cross canine helper, 1917.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A girl pets a calf in Scotland, 1918.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A man herds sheep with the help of his collies in Scotland, 1919.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A police dog biting some ankles during a training exercise, 1919.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Locals relax by the tulip fields along the canal in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1931.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Inside a Canadian Railway classroom, 1932.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A man roaming Chicago’s famous LaSalle Street train station, 1936.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A Drugstore Cowboy prepares to make deliveries, 1938.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A blue-ribbon winning mare with its owner in Waterloo, Iowa, 1939.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
People sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A dog leaps over a woman, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
An x-ray demonstration of the new Westinghouse electric razor, 1941.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
An Ouled Nail woman in Algeria wears a tattoo customary for dancers, 1949.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Hillside houses overlook smoke-belching steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Force-feeding a shake to ensure its venom supply, 1950.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A demonstration shows how a metal aircraft sheds lightning, 1950.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Uniformed boys pose with king penguins at the London Zoo, 1953.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Children play barefoot in a cactus garden on the Canary Islands, 1955.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Niagara Falls illuminated with rainbow flood lights, 1956.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A man examines the teeth of a 10-month-old Alaskan Malamute puppy near the South Pole, 1957.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A woodman notches a felled tree’s trunk for sectioning in Western Australia, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
People picnic on the rocky heights overlooking Harpers Ferry in Maryland, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Princess Grace Kelly in Monaco, 1962.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Long exposure of Caracas, Venezuela, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A chorus line high kicks during a show at Cafe Le Can Can in Miami Beach, Florida, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Children playing at sunset in Ontario, Canada, 1963.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
With claws bared, a kitten attacks its own mirrored reflection, 1964.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A performance of the opera, Aida, in New York City, 1964.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Members of the Irish Guard ignore their fainted comrade, 1966.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
The Chicago skyline as a backdrop for rooftop party-goers, 1967.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Bison roaming Yellowstone National Park, 1967.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Marines walk the San Diego streets amid neon signs, 1969.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A Ragtime piano man enjoying the spotlight, 1969.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
An Egyptian belly dancer performs for tourists in a nightclub in Cairo, 1972.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Women farming in sugar beet fields, 1974.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Patrons of a KFC in Abu Dhabi, 1975.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Kids in Murmansk, former Soviet Union endure their daily dose of Vitamin D by lamp-light, 1977.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
A shadow of a man holding a bicycle appears on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
Nuns in Peru take a break to toss a ball around, 1998.Tumblr/NatGeo FOUND
In 2013, National Geographic began to release many rare photographs from its archives, putting history at our fingertips like never before.
The professionally-curated collection goes by the name of FOUND, and offers a clear vision of cultures and places lost to time.
"We hope to bring new life to these images and the history they represent by sharing them with audiences far and wide," the magazine says. "Many of the images are missing their original date or location, but each represents a story, captured in time yet in many ways timeless."
In the gallery above, you'll find a chronological collection of 45 images that were once lost but now are found.
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