National Geographic

Nakoda rider at Cascade Mountain, Wisconsin, 1960

We recently stumbled across an amazing tumblr of National Geographic scans from the late 50s to the early 70s. The beautiful grainy pictures with their warm light and saturated colours seem to represent a life so pure and unaffected. First published in 1888, National Geographic was a window to the world in a time when travel was only possible for those who could afford it and many cultures still remained mysterious and exciting discoveries.

Kraho boy of Brasil with armadillos, March, 1959

Kazakh nomad woman brews tea, 1954

Brilliant chandeliers light an underground palace in Moscow’s subway, December, 1959

Prince of Bhutan and his bride, 1952

Baghdad, 1958

February 1964

Oranges traveling by horse cart from a cooperative orchard to El Asnam, Algeria. August, 1973

Goats in the Olympic Highlands, America, February 1974

Coral on the Australian coastline, 1957

Florida, 1959