The 100 Best Rarely Seen National Geographic Photos

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#43

Dozens of visitors frolic in the water as seen through a palm frond in Acapulco, Mexico, 1964.

#44

A rainbow arches over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

 

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#45

A diver holding a hose for breathing compressed air feeds fish at Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, January 1955.

#46

A railway encircles thirty-five blocks of shops, offices, and hotels in Chicago, June 1967.

 

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#47

Young boys throw a ball on a lush green hillside below castle ruins in Warwickshire, England, 1968.

#48

Two young girls enjoy the sun relaxing in their suits and wraps in England, September 1929.

 

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#49

Aerial of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

#50

A white fallow stag stands in a forest in Switzerland, 1973.

 

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#51

Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967.

#52

Welts, scars of beauty, pattern the entire back of a Nuba woman in Sudan, 1966.

 

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#53

People watching a solar eclipse squint through smoked glass or film on Rebun Island in Japan, March 1949.

#54

South Africans relax on a sunny, cabana-lined beach in Cape Town, South Africa, August 1953.

 

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#55

A woman in a yellow dress uses an umbrella to keep dry in Saint Louis, Missouri, November 1965.

#56

A man and his dog on the Overhanging Rock in Yosemite National Park, May 1924.

 

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#57

Seven siblings sit on a wooden fence in Quebec, Canada, May 1939.

#58

Ear-deep in watermelon, a boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963.

 

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#59

Hutterite children peer into the window of a greenhouse at Deer Spring where the denomination lives without modern appliances, 1991.

#60

A raft rests peacefully on Switzerland’s Lake Thun, September 1985.

 

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#61

Undated autochrome of a water lily garden.

#62

Aerial view of Dusky Sound near the southwestern tip of South Island in New Zealand, September 1971.

 

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#63

A group of scarabs from the Scarabaeid family, July 1929.

#64

American bison charge through heavy snow in Yellowstone National Park, November 1967.

 

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#65

Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.

#66

A teacher and a deaf student practice making sounds in front of mirror at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts, March 1955.

 

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#67

A little boy is dwarfed by a supersized cabbage in Matanuska Valley, Alaska, July 1959.

#68

A school girl soars twice her height in a standing version of a seesaw in Tokyo, Japan, November 1964.

 

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#69

Victoria Falls in Zambia.

#70

Locals relax by the tulip fields along the canal in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1931.

 

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#71

People strolling through a park in Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.

#72

A Native American sends smoke signals in Montana, June 1909.