Photographer washing film in Gulf of Alaska
A Zulu bride and groom
Tibet’s Minya Konka mountain
Tetrahedral truss kite
Mummy and skulls in Peru cave
Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico
Statue of Liberty
Guatemalan village mayor
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Photographer Ingenuity
On a 1910 National Geographic Society expedition, a photographer crouches by the shore of Yakutat Bay, Gulf of Alaska, to wash his film in the seawater. Faced with limited technology and assignments in remote places, National Geographic’s early photographers devised ingenious methods to produce the best images.
Photograph by O.D. Von Engeln

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