29/02/2016

Dark Room: Nat Geo Archive

I love National Geographic's blog on Tumblr. It's an archive of old (probably unpublished, I'm not sure) photos.

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Photographer’s reflection in a cut-out silhouette in a window. By Maynard Owen Williams.

Tourists admire the beauty and size of the Washington Monument, 1935. By Jacob J. Gayer.

Parrots perch in tree branches and on arms and shoulders of visitors in Miami, 1950. By Willard Culver.

Spectators gather around a dying finback whale in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1962. By Dean Conger.

A temporary vacant lot serves as driving range amid high rise buildings, 1979. By H. Edward Kim.

Students from five states smile through the gate of Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, 1939. By B. Anthony Stewart.

Arizona cowboys play sports to pass the time in Phoenix, 1955.  By Black Star.

Women use compact mirrors in packed crowd to catch sight of the queen in London, 1966. By James P. Blair.

A couple in a boat paddle on a lily pond and collect flowers in the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington D.C., 1923. By Charles Martin.

The sailing ship Terra Nova is framed by an ice grotto in Antarctica, 1911. By Herbert G. Ponting.

A herd of 2,400 buffalo roam free near Gillette, Wyoming, 1979. By James L. Amos.

People sunbathe and boat on reservoir water in Red Rock Canyon in Kansas, 1952. By Jack Fletcher.

Vacationers plummet down a water slide enclosed in plastic in En Gev Kibbutz, Israel, 1985. By James L. Stanfield.

Argentine gauchos race across a lake near Beron de Astrada, 1980. By O. Louis Mazzatenta.

People sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941. By J. Baylor Roberts.
Aren't these awesome?
Find more on the blog: natgeofound.tumblr.com
And be sure to read my next post coz I'll post the rest of my favs ;-)

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