Flipping through National Geographic’s photographs invokes a deep sense of nostalgia. Masterfully captured, yet detail-driven, these pictures are priceless treasures. Under the project called ‘Found‘, NatGeo’s mission was to bring back lost pictures to life by exposing them to new audiences.
Here are 35 of the most iconic never-seen-before pictures:
The Statue of Liberty at dawn – 1978
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Irish Guards stand at attention after one guardsman faints – June 1966
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Hikers atop a natural rock bridge on Mt. Rainier – May 1963
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Kitten attacking its own reflection – 1964
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Young lovers embracing in Paris – 1960
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Tourists find massive dead tree with tunnel cut out for a road in Sequoia National Forest – May 1951
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John F. Kennedy’s Coffin lies beneath The Capital’s Dome – November 1963
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A 3000 feet waterfall in Venezuela – March 1963
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London school boys pose with King Penguins – 1953
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Woman dressed like a Chinese goddess poses in California – 1915
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Welts, considered as signs of beauty, on the back of a Nuba woman in Sudan – 1966
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Co-existing in harmony – April 1964
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Victoria Falls, Zambia
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Neil Armstrong floating in his space suit – 1967
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People survey the Giant Statues of Easter Island, Polynesia – December 1922
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Greek dancers at Poseidon’s Temple – Greece 1930
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A kitten on a floating Victoria Water Lily Pad- 1935
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Astronaut Bruce McCandless floats a few meters away from Space Shuttle Challenger
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The wind sculpting the dunes of the Sahara, Algeria – 1973
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Rainbow arches over Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
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Atop a cliff overlooking a scenic bay near Trieste, Italy – 1956
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Grace Kelly in Monaco – 1962
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Men at work; blasting granite to build tunnels – 1963
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Solitary fisherman’s home in Newfoundland, Canada – 1974
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Young people relax by a pool in California – 1940
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A young girl plays inside a replica of a Lunar-module in Canada – August 1975
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‘Bathyscaphe Trieste’ journeys to the bottom of the Mariana Trench – January 1960
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A girl sitting by a lake in California – 1929
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Sand and rain wreaks havoc over a lone automobile in Kuwait – 1969
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Balloon from Anchorage, Alaska, flies over Cook Inlet – 1986
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Visitors in Acapulco, Mexico, as seen through a palm frond – 1964
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Incredible Hampi
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American bisons walking through heavy snow in Yellowstone National Park – November 1967
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Flock of birds seen through an enclosed courtyard in Old Havana – December 1987
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Egyptian belly dancer performs for tourists in Cairo – 1972
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