Vintage National Geographic Photos (1888-1999)

by ZunarJ5 on 6/13/2023, 1:30 AM with 18 comments
  • by sb057 on 6/13/2023, 4:45 AM

    Readers may also be interested in Google's complete archive of Life magazine:

    https://images.google.com/hosted/life

    https://books.google.com/books/about/LIFE.html?id=N0EEAAAAMB...

    As an aside, it appears that they never bothered to update their logo in the first link.

  • by lebuffon on 6/13/2023, 2:15 PM

    Select 1952 from the menu and see the Meola Glacier in the Himalayas.

    Then look at this 2009 photo looking directly up the same valley rather than from the side. https://www.indiamike.com/india-images/pictures/meola-glacie...

    The change is happening at a pace that we don't see, without the overview of historical photos.

    A very bad omen for India's water supply I think.

  • by malablaster on 6/13/2023, 2:26 AM

    This brings me back to the 80s when my sister and I spent hours in our grandparents’ basement flipping though their hundreds of National Geographic magazines.

  • by wonrax on 6/13/2023, 5:05 AM

    > Scans from National Geographic magazines dating back to the 1800's. Wonder if I can use these photos for personal or even commercial projects. Is National Geographic enforcing copyright and license to this medium?

  • by irrational on 6/13/2023, 1:58 PM

    Does anyone know if there is a place to find the old National Geographic maps? Those inserted maps were always my favorite part.

  • by lapama on 6/13/2023, 3:04 AM

    Nice stuff, very valuable collection. I think one of the pics labelled as Grenada perhaps relates to inland waters instead, because the houses seem unprotected from the water.

  • by totetsu on 6/13/2023, 8:48 AM

    Putting these photo captions into dall-e has some shocking results.