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A boat designed for shallow water, called a tjalk, travels past poplar trees on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The image was taken for a story in the May 1974 issue on life in the city.
A story in the August 1978 issue looked at the many uses of aluminium. Here, a woman in Cape Coral, Florida, collects beer cans for recycling.
Ballet West was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1963. In this picture from the April 1975 issue, dancers in the company perform at a high school to inspire an early love of the arts.
In South Africa, workers in a platinum mine catch a ride to the surface in a large iron bucket. The mine, featured in a September 1996 story, was almost 200 stories deep into the earth.
Gulls take food from travellers on a passenger boat in the Channel Islands. Ferries carry residents between islands, as well as to the shores of France and England.
In this picture published in the May 1971 issue, vacationing children approach a cow on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Guernsey cows are famous for their rich milk.
Platinum is one of the toughest metals available, and a November 1983 story told the story of all its uses. This photograph shows a machine made out of platinum, used to make and process fibreglass at a plant in New Jersey.
A piano player tips his hat at the Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado, in this photo from the August 1969 issue. The hotel, built in 1887, still operates today.
Gloved hands cradle a bright hope in the war against cancer. A researcher at a drug manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania displays a petri dish of cisplatin, a chemotherapy drug containing platinum. Cancer cells divide and reproduce at highly abnormal rates. Cisplatin attacks the cell cycle, killing them and reducing the size of tumours. Chemotherapy is one of the most successful methods to combat cancer.
A farmer cuts hair in his kitchen on Sark Island, Great Britain. This photo appeared in a 1971 National Geographic article about the Channel Islands.