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| * girl wearing a novelty braided Texas straw hat, October 1939 / photo by Luis Marden * London motorcycle club members, June 1966 / photo by James P. Blair * ballet dancers practice The Nutcracker in San Diego, July 1969 / photo by James L. Amos |
As a child, one of my favorite things to do was dig through my parents' collection of old National Geographic magazines. There were tons of them--I think they may have inherited some from their own parents--and I could spend hours poring over them. They were one of my first windows on the world outside my own mid-American suburban life.
Those magazines are one of the things that my parents have shed--no doubt at some garage sale along the way--that I wish I'd made them keep so I could have them now. But the good news is that I can still get my daily fix of National Geographic! In honor of their 125th anniversary, they have started a Tumblr blog, called Found, and it is full of gorgeous photos, many of which have never before been published. I shared a taste of Found here, but do go check it out for yourself to see much, much more!
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| * coal miner in Omar, West Virginia, 1938 / photo by B. Anthony Stewart * dog on a seesaw with children in Scotland, March 1919 / photo by William Reid * Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel (in a tetrahedal kite) kissing, October 1903 / photograph courtesy Library of Congress * portrait of a Sudanese women, 1920 / photo by Kodak Ltd. |
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There are so many great photos on that Tumblr! I love the straw hat girl.
ReplyDeletemy mom and dad still have all of their from the 70s? 80s? not sure when we stopped getting them.
ReplyDeletei could have her send them to you :) think we'd find any at the thrifts?