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A gondola from Sugarbush Resort takes skiers to the top of a peak in Vermont, August 1967.Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

Alan Shepard waits to become the first American in space, Cape Canaveral, 1961.Photograph by NASA

Overview of rolling, dune-like wheatfields extending into the horizon in Steptoe Butte, Washington, May 1980.Photograph by Robert Madden, National Geographic

Siberian tiger cub in a child’s play-pen, which is being used as a bed, Arkansas, November 1997.
Photograph by Nick Nichols, National Geographic

Interstate highways 90 and 94 meet at the Halsted Street Interchange in Chicago, February 1968.Photograph by James K. W. Atherton, National Geographic

A farmer buring the hoof of a horse before shoeing it in Scotland, May 1921.Photograph by William Reid, National Geographic

Two girls sit in front of an apple display in the shape of a turkey in West Virginia, 1939.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

The small monastic church of St John at Kaneo sits perched atop a rocky precipice overlooking Lake Ohrid in Macedonia, Yugoslavia, April 1982.Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic

Skiers relax by a fire at a Stowe dormitory in Vermont, August 1967.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic

Dummy pilot and seat soar, as engineers test a catapult escape system in Arizona, March 1963.Photograph by Robert Sisson, National Geographic

Seen from Castello Brown, Portofino, Italy, hugs the shoreline, February 1965.Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic

Shoppers fill Tokyo’s neon-lit shopping district at twilight, November 1964.Photograph by Winfield Parks, National Geographic

In the light of early morning, the Vimy circles the pyramids at Giza on a dawn tour, May 1995.Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic

Men and dogs sit by a campfire in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, December 1998.Photograph by Sam Abell, National Geographic

Children wearing Mardi Gras costumes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Photograph by John Hypolite Coquille, National Geographic

A hand-tinted photograph of Jerusalem, March 1914.Photograph by American Colony Photographers

A piece of wood shot from a cannon shows the damage done by tornadoes. Lubbock, Texas, June 1987.
Photograph by Chris Johns, National Geographic

People watching a solar eclipse squint through smoked glass or film on Rebun Island in Japan, March 1949.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

Osterskar Island, Finland.Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic

A bull elk catches a camera string in his antlers, triggering a flash. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, July 1913.Photograph by George Shiras, National Geographic