Posted by ssimrok on December 6, 2010

National Geographic Photos Made in the Late 19 Century

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Amazing collection of photos from the archives of the magazine “National Geographic”, they are all made in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Enjoy :)

rare01 National Geographic Photos Made in the Late 19 Century

Cairo (about 1925). (Hans Hiderbrand)

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Antarctica (June 21, 1934). Dinner members of the expedition of Admiral Richard E. Beard.

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Japan (1878 – 1882). The collection of photographs assembled by Charles Harris Phelps, a lawyer from New York, and his wife, Eleanor Livingston Pell Phelps during their honeymoon. Edition of the «National Geographic» these photos gave their son, Harris.

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Paris (around 1946). Trocadero (Place du Trocadero). (Maynard Owen Williams)

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Northern California (around 1935). (B. Anthony Stewart)

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Guangdong, China (around 1931). Fishing nets hung out to dry. (W. Robert Moore)

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Grand Canyon (about 1914). Brothers, Ellsworth and Emory Kolb trying to make a picture gorge.

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New Orleans (about 1930). French Quarter. (Edwin Wisherd)

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Burma (around 1913). The women of the tribe padaung. (Alfred Joseph Smith)

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Spain (about 1924). Portrait of a woman dressed in clothing typical of the municipality Lagratera. (Gervais Courtellemont)

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Belgium (around 1928). (Paul G. Guillumentte)

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Color image obtained by means of “Autochrome (tri-color photography method, based on the use of photographic plates with a color mosaic raster). (Franklin Price Knott)

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Alaska (about 1909). Processing film on location. (OD Von Engeln)

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The diversity of faces in a 19th century Cape Malay photograph

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Initially involved in Pictorialism, a late 19th Century

rare19 National Geographic Photos Made in the Late 19 Century

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