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Robert Madden

A story in the May 1983 issue celebrated the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge, and showed life in "much abused, much maligned, and much loved Brooklyn." Here, members of a block association in Bed-Stuy gather for an annual summer block party.

A story in the March 1975 issue documented life and culture on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here, friends gather in a parking lot at Kailua Pier for an evening jam session.

A beer maid carries steins of beer at a beer garden in Munich, West Germany—as it was known in 1977, when this photo was first published. Munich is the home of Oktoberfest, a folk festival attended by some six million people every year.

A woman harvests orchids near Hilo, Hawaii, in this photo from the March 1975 issue. Orchids grown on the Big Island are shipped all over the world.

A National Geographic magazine editor shares a drink with Koko.

In this photo from a 1979 National Geographic, a cat contemplates paradise, or perhaps shoewear, from its owner's porch in the North Shore town of Kahuku, Hawaii.