Take A Look Around

To celebrate its 125th anniversary, National Geographic released a lot of photos from its archives which can be found here.  It's worth taking a look and poking around for awhile.  The earliest dated photo I've seen is from 1907 and it seems like 95% of the pictures are prior to 1975.  Below are three samples - a Hong Kong street scene from 1934, the New Mexico border (1940?) and the Golden Horn at Constantinople.  A couple of things I noticed are (1) the world seemed less crowded and (2) people, including children, are doing stuff that today we would think of as very unsafe.  We've become a lot more timid over the years.