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Gordon Gahan

Members of an East German collective farm laugh as they harvest sugar beets near Wismar. The photograph was taken for a story in the September 1974 issue on the labor shortage and other struggles in East Germany.

A boy stands at the House of Slaves, a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Senegal's Gorée Island. Built in 1776, the building was where enslavers held Africans captive, before forcing them onto ships bound for the Americas.

A boy stands at the House of Slaves, a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Senegal's Gorée Island. Built in 1776, the building was where enslavers held Africans captive, before forcing them onto ships bound for the Americas.

On the island of Tonga, women ink intricate designs onto a tapa cloth in honour of Queen Salote, who died in 1965. This picture originally appeared in a September 1971 story retracing the voyages of British explorer James Cook.

The Arc de Triomphe stands as a memorial to the French Revolution. In this picture, traffic lights up the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day, a national holiday that commemorates the start of that same historic decade of upheaval.

A model wears a custom wedding gown at a Paris fashion show in the early 1970s.

An Eskimo hunter jumps between ice floes on the Chukchi Sea near Point Hope, Alaska.

Phaistos, on the island of Crete, was one of the most important centres of Minoan civilisation. Powerful computers could help researchers decipher the Minoans' mysterious writing system, known as Linear A.

Women relax beside oil pumps on Padre Island, Texas. The photo appeared in a 1980 issue of National Geographic.