Pilgrims bathe in the Narmada’s 160-foot-tall Kadil Dhara waterfall in India, November 1988.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1

Never-before-seen images from National Geographic’s Archives Released to Celebrate 125th Anniversary (1)

People enjoying the Gellert Bath, an outdoor swimming pool on the banks of the Danube, January 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2

A woman dressed for a bullfight stands in a doorway, August 1924.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Photographer’s reflection in a cut-out silhouette in a window.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel kissing within a tetrahedral kite, October 1903.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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Children swim and play in oceanside pool, February 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANC & JEAN SHOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 7

A photograph of a Spanish dancer posing in her costume.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILHELM TOBIEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A Highland cow is bid on at an auction, May 1970.PHOTOGRAPH BY KENNETH MACLEISH, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 9

Tuareg goatherds drink tea in their desert shelter at Hassi Izernene, August 1973.PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS J. ABERCROMBIE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 10

A student works at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, 1927.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Dancing men brandish spears and palm-leaf shields in Fiji, November 1958.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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On assignment in Denmark, 1947.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A view of the Taj Mahal on the Jumna River, 1923. PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Club members on the ocean front are shaded by decorative parasols, 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 15

Motorcycle club members wear studded leather jackets and rakish caps in London, England, June 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Sledders clamber up a snowy hill in Central Park, December 1960.PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A girl feeds her pet bear in Riggins, Idaho.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 18

A grouper is examined by three kittens at Marineland in Florida, 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Campers prepare a meal beneath sea grape trees. Cinnamon Bay, Virgin Islands, 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Undated autochrome of a water lily garden.PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANKLIN PRICE KNOTT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 21

Subway train headed to the Plaza Italia Station in Buenos Aires, November 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Members of a Salonica youth organization reenact a Macedonian battle, December 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Portrait of a csikos herdsman seated on his horse in Hajdu, Hungary, 1930.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 24

Bengal tigers crouch as animal trainer carries a 300-pound lion in Moscow, March 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 25

Two girls wearing shawls pose for a portrait in Huwara, Palestine, 1926.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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The Johanneskirche Protestant Church reflects on the water in Stuttgart, Germany, August 1928.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 27

Children cool off from summer heat outside a Connecticut firehouse, April 1935.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 28

A sea star amid dark strands of kelp at low tide in British Columbia, August 1981.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 29

Peasant takes up collection for new church donning keg and cow horn in Austria, November 1932.PHOTOGRAPH BY HANS HILDENBRAND, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Reading the news in France.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 31

A female worker helps insulate wires on a large generator in Czechoslovakia, February 1968.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 32

A group of dancers perform at the Mississippi State College for Women, 1937.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 33

A close-up portrait of a coal miner in Omar, West Virginia, 1938.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists on horses ride past a life-size apatosaurus statue in a South Dakota dinosaur park, 1956.PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 35

Cars parked at a drive-in theater with a 53-foot wide screen in Alexandria, Virginia, December 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A bullfighter waves red cape in front of a bull and a crowded stadium in Seville, Spain, April 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 37

Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 38

Portrait of a Sudanese woman from Kodak (Egypt) Ltd., purchased abroad by Maynard Owen Williams, 1920.PHOTOGRAPH BY KODAK LTD.

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An Indian movie crew filming a wedding scene at “Famous Studios” in Bombay, March 1948.PHOTOGRAPH BY VOLKMAR K. WENTZEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A portrait of a woman riding an ostrich in South Africa, August 1942.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Rear view mirror glimpse of Euphrates camp near Marl Cliffs, Iraq.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 42

Former soldiers study cake decorating at a vocational school in Puerto Rico, April 1951.PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN LOCKE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 43

A view of a bathing ghat on the shores of the Ganges River in India, 1923.PHOTOGRAPH BY JULES GERVAIS COURTELLEMONT, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Boys boxing in Washington D.C.PHOTOGRAPH BY ORREN R. LOUDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Armed Bedouin Beni Sakhr chiefs await their king’s visit in Jordan, December 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 46

A girl wears a novelty braided Texas straw hat, October 1939.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 47

Woman holds plate containing new grain sprouts to celebrate the new year in Tehran, Iran, March 1947.PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A female musher participates in a dog sled race through Nome, Alaska, March 1919. Read January’s “Into the Unknown” for an in-depth experience of what dog sledding exploration was like in the early 1900s.

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Museum tourists admire an enormous carving of Pharaoh Ramses II in Egypt, April 1991.PHOTOGRAPH BY O. LEWIS MAZZATENTA, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50

A milkman and his terrier pose at the back of a milk truck, May 1948.PHOTOGRAPH BY MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Red sailed wood sailboats travel the winding Turag River in Bangladesh, September 1972.PHOTOGRAPH BY DICK DURRANCE II, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 52

Shan man and two priests prepare to set off bamboo rockets in rain, Myanmar, November 1931.PHOTOGRAPH BY W. ROBERT MOORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A Burchell’s zebra at rest in the African terrain. From a March 1909 article about President Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming hunting trip to Kenya.PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL E. AKELEY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Annie Oakley’s niece shows off mementos to woman costumed as Annie in Greenville, Ohio, April 1955.PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 55

Malays in traditional dress dance for guests at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, August 1966.PHOTOGRAPH BY WINFIELD PARKS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 56

Man looks out on the Eiffel Tower.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAn attendant feeds a dolphin during a performance at Marineland in Florida, November 1952.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Many methods were tried, some unorthodox, in an effort to lure the Loch Ness monster into camera range. Here brave divers execute a baiting using cow’s blood and a bait basket trolled at a 60-foot depth.PHOTOGRAPH BY EMORY KRISTOF, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Many methods were tried, some unorthodox, in an effort to lure the Loch Ness monster into camera range. Here brave divers execute a baiting using cow’s blood and a bait basket trolled at a 60-foot depth.PHOTOGRAPH BY EMORY KRISTOF, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 59

A woman holds three seven-month old mountain lion kittens in Arizona.PHOTOGRAPH BY CLIFTON R. ADAMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists admire the beauty and size of the Washington Monument, April 1935.PHOTOGRAPH BY JACOB J. GAYER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Deauville, Basse-Normandie, France. August 1st, 1988.PHOTOGRAPH BY JODI COBB, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 62

A dog plays on a seesaw with children in Scotland, March 1919.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM REID, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A park visitor films an American black bear and her two cubs in Yellowstone, December 1965.PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 64

Smiling young woman holds chick above chicken-filled incubator drawer in Arkansas, July 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A species of fig receives a bi-montly pruning in Managua, Nicaragua, August 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Ballet dancers in colorful costume practice a scene in The Nutcracker in San Diego, California, July 1969.Tips on using color in your photographs. 67

A seaplane docked at Keuka Lake near Hammondsport, New York.PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL COLLECTION 68

Americans sail on a 71 foot yacht off of Antigua, November 1978.PHOTOGRAPH BY JODI COBB, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 69

A baseball player slides into home base while an umpire calls safe, August 1919.PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL THOMPSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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High saline content of the Great Salt Lake in Utah keeps a swimmer afloat, April 1964.PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A bull riding cowboy holds tight as the bull lunges airborne, Oregon, 1916.PHOTOGRAPH BY MILLER PHOTO CO., NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Parrots perch in tree branches and on arms and shoulders of visitors in Miami, November 1950.PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Men deliver ripe coffee berries to El Molino mill for processing in El Salvador, November 1944.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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A giant Olmec head discovered in 1946 gets a patch, San Lorenzo, Mexico.PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD HEWITT STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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An East German man standing near the Berlin Wall, September 1974.PHOTOGRAPH BY GORDON GAHAN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 76

A rancher plays pool with his children in their garage, Western Australia, May 1989.PHOTOGRAPH BY SAM ABELL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 77

People transport an unsheathed rocket and cap in New Mexico, 1940.PHOTOGRAPH BY B. ANTHONY STEWART, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Tourists explore massive dead tree with tunnel cut out for a road in Sequoia National Forest, May 1951.In December 2012, we published a portrait of a giant 247 foot Sequoia called the President.PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW H. BROWN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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Men ride a weed-burning rail car in Texas, June 1941.PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS MARDEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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