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January photos 1 , 2
Swedish explorers check their balloon for leaks while preparing for the first aerial Arctic expedition in July 1897. |
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February
Insecticide billows over a beach in New York’s Jones Beach State Park as part of a mosquito-control program in 1945. |
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March
Yaks cross Xinjiang’s Sanju Pass in China in 1926. |
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April
Fishermen in Wyoming cook trout over a hot spring in Yellowstone Lake in 1919. |
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May
A woman lies back and takes the heat in a “sweatbox” at a Palm Springs resort at the edge of the California desert. Published in 1934. |
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June photos 1 , 2
Before and after photos of the Stari Most bridge in Bosnia after it was damaged by Croatian shelling in 1993. |
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July
Xhosa dancers from South Africa performing for their coming-of-age ceremonies. Published in 1925. |
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August
Winemaking workers turn grapes into pulp in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, in 1922. |
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September
Highland hunting dogs take a breather above Scotland’s Loch Lomond. Published in 1917. |
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October
An Ainu girl from Japan with a traditional tattooed mustache in 1922. |
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November
A Marquesan chief poses in a cape of human hair taken from dead enemies. Published in 1919. |
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December
A seven-foot-five-inch (2.3-meter) man poses for a photo in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in 1922. |
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