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Dean Conger

Queen Elizabath II and Prince Philip leave Caernaravon Castle in Gwynedd, Wales, around 1963.

An August 1962 story illustrated life on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Here, school children learn about a deep-sea thermometer while on a boat in Nantucket Sound.

An August 1962 story illustrated life on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Here, school children learn about a deep-sea thermometer while on a boat in Nantucket Sound.

A subway platform in 1960s New York City sees a rush of commuters. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic changed commuting habits, the system provided a total of 1,697,787,002 rides.

A kid locks eyes with a brown bear in Yellowstone National Park. This picture originally appeared in a July 1966 story called, "Today and Tomorrow in Our National Parks."

In this photo from the March 1966 issue, workers wave red flags as part of a demonstration in Moscow's Red Square on May Day. Long celebrated as a festival of spring, May 1 also became International Workers' Day in 1889.

Phillippines, 1971: a young Ubo girl, dressed in traditional jewellery, on Mindanao Island. The Ubo are part of the Lumad, an indigenous people comprised of around a dozen different tribes. The people are skilled artisans and hunters, and traditionally nomadic – with many settled groups forced back into this lifestyle due to disputes over ancestral lands.

Mongolian children play chess in this image from the March 1962 issue. Red patches on their sleeves indicate the children's affiliation with the Young Pioneers, an organisation run by the Communist Party.

In this picture from the March 1966 issue, a woman lights a candle in a Russian Orthodox church in Moscow. At the time, atheism was state-mandated, and membership to a religious organisation could disqualify you from jobs.

A herd of reindeer travels through a valley in Siberia. This photo originally appeared in the August 1977 issue, in which photographer Dean Conger wrote about his career documenting the Soviet Union.