The National Geographic developed the “Found” archive in 2013 to celebrate its 125th year. This archive contains rare and unpublished photos that for one reason or another never originally made it to print.
When you look through our favorites from the Found archive below, you’ll be glad that NatGeo kept them somewhere and didn’t just dispose of them as quite often happened at the time.
What’s your favorite?
Welts, scars of beauty, pattern the entire back of a Nuba woman in Sudan, 1966
Image source: Horst Luz
A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935
Image source: Alfred T. Palmer
Dozens of visitors frolic in the water as seen through a palm frond in Acapulco, Mexico, 1964
Image source: Thomas Nebbia
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats a few meters away from Space Shuttle Challenger during the historic first use of a nitrogen-propelled manned maneuvering unit in 1984
Image source: NASA
Irish Guards remain at attention after one guardsman faints, 1966
Women carry baskets on their heads while children play in Kotaka, Mali, 1991
Image source: James L. Stanfield
Flamingos standing and feeding in a pool near salt beds, Netherlands Antilles
Image source: Volkmar K. Wentzel
A woodman notches a felled tree’s trunk for sectioning in Western Australia, 1962.
Image source: Robert B. Goodman
With claws bared, a kitten attacks its own mirrored reflection, 1964
Image source: Walter Chandoha
Woman adorned like a Chinese goddess poses in a garden in California, 1915
Image source: Franklin Price Knott
The wind sculpts the dunes of the Sahara Desert in the Erg Bourarhet, Algeria, 1973
Image source: Thomas J. Abercrombie
A man herds sheep with the help of his collies in Scotland, 1919.
Image source: William Reed
A passageway in Algeria
Image source: Thomas J. Abercrombie
A man stands dwarfed under the Ape-Ape leaves of Puohokamoa Gulch in Maui, Hawaii, 1924.
Image source: Gilbert H. Grosvenor
A young girl plays in a replica of a lunar-module in Toronto, Canada, August 1975
Image source: Robert Madden
Women sit in a modern chic boutique in Casablanca, 1971
Image source: Thomas J. Abercrombie
The Statue of Liberty hails dawn over New York Harbor in 1978
Image source: David Alan Harvey
A white fallow stag stands in a forest in Switzerland, 1973
Image source: James P. Blair
A shadow of a man holding a bicycle is cast on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996
Image source: Chris Johns
Princess Grace Kelly in Monaco, 1962
Image source: Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963
Image source: Robert B. Goodman
Men blast granite to build tunnels for a hydroelectric project in Australia, 1963
Image source: Robert B. Goodman
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You titled one image Irish Guards remain at attention- English Guards you mean!!!!!!!!!
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