Extraordinary photos from National Geographic's tumblr
Ballet dancers in colorful costume practice a scene in The Nutcracker in San Diego, California, July 1969.
Turkey farm in Idaho, June 1944.
Victoria amazonica water lilies can reach 20 feet in circumference and support up to 300 pounds each. Perching children atop the massive leaves was all the rage in water gardens of the time. Salem, North Carolina, c. 1892.
Carson City firemen play cards while awaiting a call, January 1946.
A wave of rock shaped by wind and rain towers above a plain in Western Australia, September 1963.
People strolling through a park in Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.
Students swing to a jazz band in a bamboo-lined student center in Vienna, February 1959.
A couple inspects a beach house destroyed after a storm in March 1962.
Deauville, Basse-Normandie, France. August 1st, 1988.
Swiss men playing 12-foot-long alpenhorns at a midsummer Alpine Festival in Switzerland, 1973.
Parrots perch in tree branches and on arms and shoulders of visitors in Miami, November 1950.
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