A story in the September 1921 issue documented the lives of people living in eastern Tibet. Here, the King of Derge poses for a portrait with his two wives and the family's attendants.
PHOTOGRAPH BY A. L. SHELTON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A bakery in Milpa Alta, Mexico, displays loaves of sweet bread in its windows. The bread is called concha, which means "shell," because of the pattern etched into the crusts.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROLYN DRAKE, NAT GEO PHOTO OF THE DAY
A group of lionesses relax by a watering hole in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Female lions are faster than males, and are usually in charge of hunting food for the pride.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DES AND JEN BARTLETT, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A worker harvests blooms at a flower farm in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Naturally arid, the region irrigates its crops with water diverted from the Colorado River.
PHOTOGRAPH BY GERD LUDWIG, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In this picture from the October 1969 issue, women trim pineapples on an assembly line at the Dole Company cannery in Honolulu, Hawaii. The story documented the influx of residents and tourists within the islands' first 10 years of statehood.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BATES LITTLEHALES, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the April 1996 issue examined "The Three Faces of Jerusalem," or why the city is holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. In this picture, Orthodox Jews approach the Western Wall, a holy site dating back to 19 B.C.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A windsurfer has a close encounter with two humpback whales in Bonavista Bay in Newfoundland. The province became part of Canada in 1949, and underwent an official name change to Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN EASTCOTT AND YVA MOMATIUK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In Dharavi, a community in Mumbai, India, revelers dance and throw colored powders as part of a festival celebrating the elephant-headed god Ganesh, who offers good luck. Dharavi is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a million people packed into less than one square mile.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JONAS BENDIKSEN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Kakenya Ntaiya reads with fourth graders at the boarding school for girls she founded in the village of Enoosaen, Kenya, in 2009. Since then, more than 500 girls have enrolled, pursuing education instead of being forced into early marriage.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP SCOTT ANDREWS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In Cornesti, Romania, a woman spins raw wool that will be used to make embroidered clothes for her family. This picture originally appeared in a July 2013 issue about the families who harvest hay meadows in Transylvania.
A story in the May 1996 issue chronicled the life of explorer David Thompson, who surveyed roughly 1.5 million square miles of North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His journeys in 1796 took him to the falls of the Fond du Lac River in Saskatchewan.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIA STENZEL, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
People work in the main reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress houses some 170 million items, making it a fitting subject for a photo in a March 1997 story about paper.
PHOTOGRAPH BY SISSE BRIMBERG, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
The Science Barge floats down the Hudson River, bearing greenhouses full of vegetables. Featured in the March 2009 issue, the Science Barge is a prototype of a carbon-neutral hydroponic farm that can potentially be installed on city rooftops.
PHOTOGRAPH BY TYRONE TURNER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, prayer shawls cover members of a Jewish priesthood known as the Cohanim, who claim a shared ancestor. The photo appeared in an October 1999 story about genes.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the September 2006 issue featured a team of 12 people exploring and documenting a series of river caves in New Britain, an island off of Papua New Guinea. Here, one of the explorers attempts to cross Ora Waterfall, where the underground river bursts forth.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN ALVAREZ, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the March 2018 issue documented lakes around the world that are drying up. Iran's Lake Urmia, a popular tourist location pictured here, has shrunk 80 percent since the 1980s.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NEWSHA TAVAKOLIAN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
The November 1955 issue took readers on a journey to Egypt, where archaeologists had recently uncovered many ancient artifacts. In this photo, a student takes notes on funeral texts painted more than 3,000 years ago.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID S. BOYER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, a young grizzly bear walks by moose antlers on the shore of Naknek Lake. To prepare for winter, grizzlies will eat as much as 30 pounds of food a day.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
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