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People shop for watermelons and other produce at an open-air market near New Hope, Pennsylvania, in this photo from the July 1952 issue. The corresponding story followed the path of the Delaware River, which travels for nearly 400 miles through 4 states.
A family sets up camp alongside rhododendron plants on Roan Mountain, Tennessee. This photo appeared in a June 1957 story dedicated to the Roan Mountain rhododendrons, flowers famous enough to earn their own annual festival.
The Leakey family—archaeologist Louis, paleontologist Mary, and son Philip—examine a campsite of a prehistoric manlike creature in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, after discovering its fossils in 1960. Louis later went on to found The Leakey Foundation, which continues the work of studying human prehistory.
In this picture from the April 1954 issue, the owner of a sugarbush grove in New Hampshire demonstrates an antique yoke once used for hauling buckets of sap. The red building behind him is the sugarhouse, where the sap will be made into maple syrup.
A women's water ski team performs a synchronised routine at 23 miles per hour on Dart Lake, New York, in the mid-1950s.
Grunions are a unique fish native to southern and Baja California, known for laying their eggs on land. This photo from the May 1969 issue shows people scrambling to catch the fish with their bare hands, as the California law required.
A kilted team participates in tug-of-war during the Highland Games in Brodick, Scotland. This story from July 1965 illustrates life on Arran, titled, ‘Scotland's Magic Isle.‘
National Geographic photographer Robert Sisson set out to find a way to preserve the shape of snowflakes, long after they melted. He succeeded, using a form of casting, and photographed the results-- which appeared in the January 1970 issue.
In this 1961 National Geographic photo, famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey and his family look for early hominid remains at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
A rainbow arches over a cottage in Donegal in a 1961 National Geographic photo.