23 Spectacular Unpublished Photos Released From National Geographic’s Archives

A heavenly entrance to one of Bordighera’s gardens in Italy, 1928.

A smoky, industrial area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1949.

Women pose for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929.

A coordinated leap of porpoises in a man made lagoon in Oahu, Hawaii, 1966.

Peeking down a natural window in cliffs above the river in White Cliffs, Montana, 1971.

Shell collectors study their valuable gains on Sanibel Island in Florida, 1959.

The regal architecture of an ancient building in Chennai, India in 1948.

Come what may, these elderly enthusiasts seem bent on taking those notes about plants and flowers, back in 1959.

Children read a Sylvan Drew Circus billboard, 1931.

Cowboys killing time with their sport in Phoenix, 1955.

A demonstration of a metal aircraft emitting lightning in 1950.

The silky dunes of  the Sahara Dessert in Erg Bourarhet, Algeria, 1973.

This is just a peek into the archive that National Geographic made public. But there’s more for old pictures enthusisasts to check out on the magazine’s collection of such pictures called Found. They lead you on to explore times, cultures and societies long gone now.

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