A member of the El Paso Diablos bows his head during the national anthem. This photo appeared on the cover of the April 1991 issue, which featured a story about minor league baseball in the U.S.
PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
More than 400 children carry lanterns through the streets of Mendrisio, Switzerland, to commemorate Good Friday. In 2019, the centuries-old tradition received a spot on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MELISSA FARLOW, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A group of Jewish friends in Warsaw, Poland, gather for Passover seder. When this story was published in September 1986, there were fewer than 5,000 Jews living in Poland. Today, Poland is home to one of the fastest growing Jewish populations in the world.
PHOTOGRAPH BY TOMASZ TOMASZEWSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Tarahumara people celebrate Easter by a fire in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, Mexico. Spanish colonizers arrived in the area in the 1500s, and centuries of violent conflict followed. Ultimately, many of the Indigenous people converted to Catholicism.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIA STENZEL, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Climbers establish Hanging Camp at 19,500 feet on Trango Tower, in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains. This story from the April 1996 issue followed a group of climbers from Wyoming who spent nine weeks scaling the vertical rock face.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BILL HATCHER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A person freshens a sheet out the window of a building in Arles, France. This photo originally appeared in the October 1997 issue, in a story about the life and travels of artist Vincent Van Gogh.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A boy gets a haircut at a barbershop in Norfolk, Virginia. This picture appeared in a July 1985 story about the communities of Hampton Roads—the name of both a body of water and the metropolitan area it touches.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In this photo from the April 1921 issue, tourists stand in front of a 19th-century rock carving just south of Tehran, Iran. At the end of 2020, the tourism department of Tehran Province announced that the carving would undergo repair and preservation processes to combat years of damage and erosion.
PHOTOGRAPH BY F. E. MURRAY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In this photo from the August 1966 issue, troops participate in a ceremonial parade in front of the Palace of Rey Bouba, Cameroon, to mark the end of Ramadan.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES P. BLAIR, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the May 2009 issue looked at the growing trend of rooftop gardens around the world. In this photo, a chef at a Vancouver hotel harvests apples growing on the roof.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DIANE COOK AND LEN JENSHEL, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Spinner dolphins return from foraging to a bay off Oahu, Hawaii. Spinner dolphins are highly social, gathering in groups that can number in the thousands.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SKERRY, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the October 1987 issue examined the lives of women in Saudi Arabia. Here, a woman wears a traditional niqab, but the young girls won't start wearing the veil until they reach puberty.
Orphan elephants playfully vie for a bottle of formula at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's elephant nursery in Nairobi, Kenya. Here, young elephants who have lost their parents to poachers are raised until they can be released back into the wild.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, hikers pause to study a gnarled tree. The nation's largest national park is roughly the same size as the state of Connecticut.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Farmers whittle outside of a store in Fort Ransom, North Dakota. The March 1987 issue featured a profile on the state, titled "Tough Times on the Prairie," examining the harsh climate and struggling economy.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION