A Zenith Electronics worker in Illinois assembles a television set in this image from the December 1953 issue. Zenith Electronics produced American-made TVs and radios until the 1990s, when it was purchased by LG.
PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLARD CULVER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Children learn in a bare-bones schoolhouse in the remote village of Jangbi, Bhutan. When Bhutan became a constitutional monarchy in 2008, the government called for 120 schools to be built throughout the country.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNSEY ADDARIO, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Near Lake Itasy, Madagascar, a girl gathers wild yellow cosmos flowers. Ninety percent of the island country's wildlife isn't found anywhere else on earth.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALBERT MOLDVAY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A woman and her son pick cranberries for Thanksgiving dinner on uninhabited Manana Island off the coast of Maine. Cranberries are native to North America, and they've been made into sauce and served with wild game for hundreds of years.
PHOTOGRAPH BY AMY TOENSING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Caleen Sisk is the spiritual leader and tribal chief of the Winnemem-Wintu tribe near Mount Shasta, California. She is one of the last living speakers of the tribe's native language.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A Newar girl visits Swayambhunath, Nepal's oldest Buddhist stupa. The Newar people are indigenous to the Kathmandu Valley, carrying on traditional practices, religion, and language.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE STEBER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION