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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 1930 - 1939

National Geographic - December 1939, Vol. 76, No. 6
SPECIAL ISSUE - Cathedrals of England
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR AND 16 ENGRAVINGS (Puerto Rico; Cappadocia; and, England’s Cathedrals)
PUERTO RICO: WATCHDOG OF THE CARIBBEAN: Venerable Domain Under American Flag Has New Role as West Indian Stronghold and Sentinel of the Panama Canal, with 25 Illustrations
PUERTO RICO POLYCHROMES: 23 Natural Color Photographs by Edwin L. Wisherd
HEART OF A HEMISPHERE: Of Vital Importance is the Area Portrayed in The Society’s New Map of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, with 1 Illustration
CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND: An Artist’s Pilgrimage to These Majestic Monuments of Man’s Genius and Faith, with 3 Illustrations
CATHEDRALS OF ENGLAND: 16 Dry-point Engravings by Norman Wilkinson (Printed on a special heavier and darker stock paper)
WHERE EARLY CHRISTIANS LIVED IN CONES OF ROCK: A Journey to Cappadocia in Turkey Where Strange Volcanic Pinnacles Are Honeycombed With Hermit Cells and Monasteries, with 20 Illustrations and Map
MULTICOLORED CONES OF CAPPADOCIA (TURKEY): 20 Natural Color Photographs by Eric Matson
ESTONIA: AT RUSSIA’S BALTIC GATE: War Often Has Ravaged This Little Nation Whose Identity Was Long Submerged in the Vast Sea of Russian Peoples, with 33 Illustrations and Map
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National Geographic - November 1939, Vol. 76, No. 5
FORTY PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR 
BUENOS AIRES: QUEEN OF THE RIVER OF SILVER, with 23 Illustrations
BUENOS AIRES: METROPOLIS OF THE PAMPAS: 24 Natural Color Photographs by Luis Marden and M. O. Williams 
CHEMISTS MAKE A NEW WORLD: Creating Hitherto Unknown Raw Materials, Science Now Disrupts Old Trade Routes and Revamps the World Map of Industry, with 22 Illustrations
FROM NATURE’S HIDDEN BUILDING BLOCKS (Products of the Chemical Age): 26 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver 
THE NOMADS OF LAPLAND (NORTHERN SCANDINAVIA): Mysterious Little People of a Land of the Midnight Sun Live Off the Country Above the Arctic Circle, with 28 Illustrations and Map
EUROPE’S NORTHERN NOMADS: Europe’s Northern Nomads: 12 Natural Color Photographs by Jack Kuhne 
HISTORIC DANZIG: LAST OF THE CITY-STATES, with 26 Illustrations
Buenos Aires, Argentina; chemistry; arctic laplanders; Danzig, Poland. 
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National Geographic - October 1939, Vol. 76, No. 4
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Rio Grande; and, Deer of the World) 
DOWN THE RIO GRANDE: Tracing this Strange, Turbulent Stream on Its Long Course from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, with 28 Illustrations and 6 Maps
RIATAS AND ROMANCE ON THE RIO GRANDE: 24 Natural Color Photographs by Luis Marden 
DEER OF THE WORLD: As Workers, Pets, and Graceful Living Statuary in Parks and Estates, These Versatile Creatures Have Endeared Themselves to Mankind, with 20 Illustrations
ANTLERED MAJESTIES OF MANY LANDS:  23 Paintings in Color by Walter A. Weber (DEER Including: Moose; Reindeer; Caribou; Wapiti; Blacktail; Mule; Whitetail; Brocket; Chilean Pudu; Peruvian Huemul; Marsh, Pampas; Barasingha; Schomburgk’s; Sambar; Fallow; Roe; Japanese Sika; Axis or Chital; Red; Milu; Musk; Indian Muntjae; Michie’s Tufted; Chinese Water; and, Rusa): 
WE KEEP HOUSE ON AN ACTIVE VOLCANO: After Flying to Study a Spectacular Eruption in Belgian Congo, a Geologist Settles Down on a Newborn Craterless Vent for Eight Month’s Study, with 28 Illustrations and Map
WINGS OVER NATURE’S ZOO IN AFRICA: 20 Illustrations in Duotone from Photographs, by Reginald A. Bourlay 
WAR CLOUDS OVER DANZIG AND POLAND’S PORT: 8 Full-page Illustrations from Photographs 
THE SOCIETY’S NEW MAP OF CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (Article only: Map supplement is NOT included with this Magazine.)
This issue also features the 39th COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover of the Magazine
Rio Grande; deer; Mt. Nyamlagira volcano, Belgian Congo; Poland.
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National Geographic - September 1939, Vol. 76, No. 3 
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and, Persia-Iran)
RIO PANORAMA (BRAZIL): Breath-taking Is This Fantastic City amid Peaks, Palms, and Sea, and in Carnival Time It Moves to the Rhythm of Music, with 12 Illustrations
CARIOCA CARNIVAL (RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL): 34 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore
OLD AND NEW IN PERSIA: In This Ancient Land Now Called Iran a Modern Sugar Factory Rears Its Head Near the Palace of Darius the Great, with 20 Illustrations and Map
GILDED DOMES AGAINST AN AZURE SKY (PERSIA-IRAN): 13 Natural Color Photographs by Stephen H. Nyman
CHESAPEAKE ODYSSEY: An 18-foot Sailboat Follows the Course of Captain John Smith around This Spacious Bay of History, Commerce, Sea Food, and Nautical Lore, with 32 Illustrations and Map
LIFE’S FLAVOR ON A SWEDISH FARM: From the Rocky Hills of Smaland Thousands of Sturdy Citizens Have Emigrated to the United States, with 23 Illustrations and Map
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National Geographic - August 1939, Vol. 76, No. 2
Iowa; corn; Mayan ruins in Mexico; flowers of the U.S. midwest; the platypus.
FORTY PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Iowa; and, Flowers) 
IOWA, ABIDING PLACE OF PLENTY: The State Where the Tall Corn Grows Provides the Nation with a Tenth of Its Food Supply, with 15 Illustrations and Map
CORN AND COLOR IN THE HAWKEYE STATE: Corn and Color in the Hawkeye State: 20 Natural Color Photographs by J. Baylor Roberts 
DISCOVERING THE NEW WORLD’S OLDEST DATED WORK OF MAN: A Maya Monument Inscribed 291 B. C. is Unearthed Near a Huge Stone Head by a Geographic Smithsonian Expedition in Mexico, (Colossal Head of Hueyapa in Vera Cruz state), with 41 Illustrations
FLOWER PAGEANT OF THE MIDWEST: From March to November Nature Embroiders an Ever-changing Pattern of Living Color, with 1 Illustration
FLORAL GARLANDS OF PRAIRIE, PLAIN, AND WOODLAND: 125 Flower Paintings on 24 Plates by Edith S. Clements 
AUSTRALIA’S PATCHWORK CREATURE, THE PLATYPUS: Man Succeeds in Making Friends with This Duck-billed, Fur-coated Paradox which Lays Eggs and Suckles Its Young, with 13 Illustrations
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National Geographic - July 1939, Vol. 76, No. 1
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Solar System; and, Big Game Animals)
NEWS OF THE UNIVERSE: Mars Swings Nearer the Earth, Sunspots Wane, and a Giant New Telescopic Eye Will Peer Into Unexplored Depths of SPACE, with 23 Illustrations
SOLAR SYSTEM’S ETERNAL SHOW: 10 Paintings by Charles Bittinger, N.A.
AT HOME ON THE OCEANS: Whales and Sharks Make Exciting Neighbors for a Professor’s Wife, Turned Able Seaman, On a Three-year Voyage Around the World, with 54 Illustrations and Map
LORDS OF THE ROCKIES: Photographing Big Game Animals in Their Primeval Surroundings, from Arizona to Canada, Brings Adventure to Two Wilderness Wanderers, with 14 Illustrations
STALKING BIG GAME WITH COLOR CAMERA: 28 Natural Color Photographs by Wendell Chapman
MY FOUR ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS: Explorations of 1933-39 Have Stricken Vast Areas from the Realm of the Unknown, by Lincoln Ellsworth, with 9 Illustrations and Map
THE WORLD THAT RIMS THE NARROWING ATLANTIC: Latest Ten-color Map Supplement Shows Four Continents and New Transatlantic Air Routes Which Make This Ocean Only One Day Wide, with 1 Illustration
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National Geographic - June 1939, Vol. 75, No. 6
Yugoslavia; Poland; birds; Europe.
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Yugoslavia; and, Birds) 
KALEIDOSCOPIC LAND OF EUROPE’S YOUNGEST KING: Yugoslavia Holds a Mosaic of Slavs and the City Where Pistol Shots Touched Off the World War, with 18 Illustrations and 2 Maps
YUGOSLAVIA: WHERE ORIENTAL HUES SPLASH EUROPE: 34 Natural Color Photographs by Konstantin. J. Kostich, and Rudolf Balogh 
PEDALING THROUGH POLAND: An American Girl Free-wheels Alone from Krakow, and Its Medieval Byways, Toward Ukraine’s Restive Borderland, with 38 Illustrations and 2 Maps 
STALKING BIRDS WITH A COLOR CAMERA: An Expert in Avian Habits Persuades His Subjects to Sit Where He Wants Them, Even in His Hat, with 3 Illustrations
CLOSE-UPS OF FAMILIAR BIRDS: 14 Natural Color Photographs by Arthur A. Allen 
LOOKING DOWN ON EUROPE AGAIN: Crisscrossing Air Tracks Reveal Nature’s Scenic Masterpieces and Man’s Swift-changing Boundaries and Structures, with 30 Illustrations and Map
This issue also features the 37th COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover of the Magazine
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National Geographic - May 1939, Vol. 75, No. 5
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Tennessee; and, French Canada) 
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE VOLUNTEER STATE: Men and Industry in Tennessee Range from Pioneer Stages to Modern Machine Age, with 20 Illustrations and Map
TENNESSEE TABLEAUX: 22 Natural Color Photographs by J. Baylor Roberts 
GENTLE FOLK SETTLE STERN SAGUENAY (QUEBEC): On French Canada’s Frontier Homespun Colonists Keep the Customs of Old Norman Settlers, with 15 Illustrations and Map
CAMERA PASTELS IN FRENCH CANADA (QUEBEC): 25 Natural Color Photographs 
EXPLORING FROZEN FRAGMENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY (ALASKA’S CAPE PRINCE OF WALES on the BERING STRAIT): On the Trail of Early Eskimo Colonists Who Made a 55-Mile Crossing from the Old World to the New, with 24 Illustrations and Map
AS SAO PAULO GROWS: Half the World’s Coffee Beans Flavor the Life and Speed the Growth of an Inland Brazil City, with 33 Illustrations and Map
THE MYSTERY OF AURORAS: National Geographic Society and Cornell University Study Spectacular Displays in the Heavens 
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National Geographic - April 1939, Vol. 75, No. 4
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Long Island, New York; and, Norway) 
SPIN YOUR GLOBE TO LONG ISLAND: Only Six States Have More People than the Insular Empire that Ranges from a World’s Fair Through Potato Patches, Princely Estates, and Historic Shrines, with 25 Illustrations
BRIGHT PATTERNS OF LONG ISLAND LIFE: 18 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver 
HENRY HUDSON, MAGNIFICENT FAILURE: Just 330 Years Ago He and His Mutinous Crew Found Manhattan Covered With Goodly Oakes and Fought Indians in New York Harbor, with 21 Illustrations
COUNTRY LIFE IN NORWAY: The Beneficent Gulf Stream Enables One-third of the People in a Far-north, Mountainous Land to Prosper on Farms, with 17 Illustrations and Map
NORWEGIAN FJORDS AND FOLKWAYS: 20 Natural Color Photographs by Jack Kuhne 
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A HURRICANE: A Doughnut-shaped Storm Turned Back Time in New England to Candlelight Days, but Revealed Anew Yankee Courage and Ingenuity, with 20 Illustrations and Map
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National Geographic - March 1939, Vol. 75, No. 3
MARCH   CHARLESTON: WHERE PAST AND PRESENT MEET   (SOUTH CAROLINA)      A COLONIAL RHAPSODY     BALI AND POINTS EAST (INDONESIA, NEAR JAVA)     GEM OF THE NETHERLANDS INDIES  (NOW INDONESIA)  SPARROWS, TOWHEES AND LONGSPURS  BIRDS THE SMALLEST STATE IN THE WORLD  (VATICAN CITY, ROME ITALY)     VATICAN CITY: TREASURE HOUSE OF THE AGES Back cover advertisement:        Grace Line Caribbean-- South American Cruises     
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National Geographic - February 1939, Vol. 75, No. 2
FORTY PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Golden Gate, California; Pacific Coast Fresh-water Fish; and, Mid-ocean Color Log)
CALIFORNIA’S COASTAL REDWOOD REALM: Along a Belt of Tall Trees a Giant Bridge Speeds the Winning of Our Westernmost Frontier, with 31 Illustrations and Map
THE GOLDEN GATE, AND REDWOOD EVERGREENS: 17 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
FISHING IN PACIFIC COAST STREAMS, with 10 Illustrations
FRESH-WATER DENIZENS OF THE FAR WEST: 54 Paintings in Color from Life by Hashime Murayama
HAPPY LANDING IN BERMUDA, with 14 Illustrations
MID-OCEAN LOG (BERMUDA): 12 Natural Color Photographs by E. John Long and, Konstantin J. Kostich
TIME AND TIDE ON THE THAMES (ENGLAND), with 23 Illustrations and Map
THE THAMES, ENGLAND’S GATEWAY TO THE WORLD: 10 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
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National Geographic - January. 1939, Vol. 75, No. 1
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Turkey; and, Rio Grande) 
THE TRANSFORMATION OF TURKEY: New Hats and New Alphabet are the Surface Symbols of the Swiftest National Changes in Modern Times, with 26 Illustrations and Map
OLD PATTERN AND NEW IN TURKEY: 23 Natural Color Photographs by Bernard F. Rogers, Jr. 
THE TEXAS DELTA OF AN AMERICAN NILE: Orchards and Gardens Replace Thorny Jungle in the Southmost Tip of the Lone Star State, with 27 Illustrations and Map
RIO GRANDE CORNUCOPIA UNDER A WINTER SUN: 24 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart 
I KEPT HOUSE IN A JUNGLE: The Spell of Primeval Tropics in Venezuela, Riotous With Strange Plants, Animals, and Snakes, Enthralls a Young American Woman, with 29 Illustrations
MODERN VENEZUELAN VIGNETTES: 9 Illustrations from Photographs 
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National Geographic - December 1938, Vol. 74, No. 6
SPECIAL ISSUE - CANARIES AND OTHER CAGE BIRDS
The Map Supplement is NOT included with this magazine.
CHANGE COMES TO BIBLE LANDS (Near East; Egypt; Holy Land; Iraq; Lebanon; Levant States; Palestine; and, Syria), with 40 Illustrations
IN THE LAND OF MOSES AND ABRAHAM: 25 Natural Color Photographs
THE SOCIETY’S MAP OF BIBLE LANDS, with 3 Illustrations
THE GARDEN ISLES OF SCILLY (located off the coast of ENGLAND): Geologists May Throw Stones at Legend of Lost Lyonnesse, But Natives Grow Flowers in Glass Houses for London, with 9 Illustrations and Map
THE SCILLIES: ISLES OF WRECKS AND GOLDEN DAFFODILS: 13 Natural Color Photographs
CANARIES AND OTHER CAGE-BIRD FRIENDS, with 20 Illustrations
BRIGHT-HUED PETS OF CAGE AND AVIARY: 51 Portraits in Color from Life on 8 Plates, by Maj. Allan Brooks (18th in a series of 19 NGM installments spotlighting the major bird families of North America: 1932-39)
MARVELS OF METAMORPHOSIS: A Scientific G-man Pursues Rare Trapdoor Spider Parasites for Three Years With a Spade and A Candid Camera, with 39 Illustrations. Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (Santa Clause in a chair with a youngster)
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National Geographic - November 1938, Vol. 74, No. 5
SPECIAL ISSUE - CATS
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Domestic Cats; and, Marajo)
AN AMERICAN GIRL CYCLES ACROSS ROMANIA: Two-wheel Pilgrim Pedals the Land of Castles and Gypsies, Where Roman Empire Traces Mingle With Remnants of Oriental Migration, with 31 Illustrations and Map
THE PANTHER OF THE HEARTH: Lithe Grace and Independence of Spirit Contribute to the Appeal of Cats, The Only Domestic Animal Man Has Never Conquered, with 22 Illustrations
CATDOM’S ROYALTY PHOTOGRAPHED IN COLOR: 25 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
WONDER ISLAND OF THE AMAZON DELTA (Marajo Island, Brazil, South America): On Marajo Cowboys Ride Oxen, Tree-dwelling Animals Throng Dense Forests, While Strange Fishes and Birds Help Make a Zoologist’s Paradise, with 30 Illustrations and Map
COWBOYS AND CAYMANS OF MARAJO (Marajo Island, Amazon Delta, Brazil): 12 Natural Color Photographs by Desmond Holdridge
TRISTAN DA CUNHA, ISLES OF CONTENTMENT: On Lonely Sea Spots of Pirate Lore and Shipwrecks Seven Families Live Happily Far From War Rumors and World Changes (Five Volcanic British Islands located deep in the South Atlantic Ocean), with 23 Illustrations and Map
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National Geographic - October 1938, Vol. 74, No. 4
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Hawaii; Pacific Fishes; and, Finland)
HAWAII, THEN AND NOW: Boyhood Recollections and Recent Observations by An American Whose Grandfather Came to the Islands 102 Years Ago, with 30 Illustrations and Map
LEIS FROM ALOHA LAND: 10 Natural Color Photographs by Richard H. Stewart
TREASURES OF THE PACIFIC: Marine Fishes and Fisheries Yield Vast Wealth from Alaska to Baja California, with 10 Illustrations
GLEAMING FISHES OF PACIFIC COASTAL WATERS: 31 Portraits in Color from Life by Hashime Murayama
THE FARTHEST-NORTH REPUBLIC: Olympic Games and Arctic Flying Bring Sequestered FINLAND into New Focus of World Attention, with 25 Illustrations and Map
FINLAND, LAND OF SKY-BLUE LAKES: 12 Natural Color Photographs by Konstantin J. Kostich
AUGUSTUS, EMPEROR AND ARCHITECT: Two Thousand Years Ago Was Born the Physically Frail But Spiritually Great Roman Who Became the Master of the World, with 17 Illustrations and Map
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National Geographic - September 1938, Vol. 74, No. 3
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Connecticut; Africa; and, Tongareva Pearl Lagoon)
CONNECTICUT, PRODIGY OF INGENUITY: Factories Play a Symphony of Industry Amid Colonial Scenes in the State of Steady Habits, with 25 Illustrations and Map
OLD AND NEW BLEND IN YANKEELAND (CONNECTICUT): 25 Natural Color Photographs
TRANS-AFRICA SAFARI: A Motor Caravan Rolls Across Sahara and Jungle Through Realms of Dusky Potentates and the Land of Big-Lipped Women, with 30 Illustrations
AFRICA ON PARADE: 14 Natural Color Photographs by Lawrence Thaw
ON THE BOTTOM OF A SOUTH SEA PEARL LAGOON (located 2,000 miles south of Honolulu, Hawaii, Tongareva Island, also known as Penrhyn Island, is a typical South Sea Coral Atoll), with 17 Illustrations
SEA FLOOR AQUARELLES FROM TONGAREVA: 8 Paintings by Else Bostelmann
AMONG THE BIG KNOT LOIS OF HAINAN (CHINA): Wild Tribesmen With Topknots Roam the Little-known Interior of This Big and Strategically Important Island in the China Sea, with 29 Illustrations . Sep. Back cover advertisement:        Pennsylvania State Publicity Commission
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National Geographic - August 1938, Vol. 74, No. 2
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Czechoslovakia; Birds of the High Seas) 
OUR SEARCH FOR THE LOST AVIATORS: An Arctic Area Larger Than Montana First Explored in Hunt for Missing Russians (Moscow, Russia to Fairbanks, Alaska flight attempt), with 29 Illustrations and Map
CZECHOSLOVAKS, YANKEES OF EUROPE, with 23 Illustrations and Map
CZECHOSLOVAK CYCLORAMA: 30 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore 
BIRDS OF THE HIGH SEAS: Albatrosses and Petrels; Gannets, Mon-o’-war-birds, and Tropic-birds, with 7 Illustrations
WINGS OVER THE BOUNDING MAIN: 36 Portraits in Color from Life on 8 Plates by Maj. Allan Brooks (17th in a series of 19 NGM installments spotlighting the major bird families of North America: 1932-39) 
WE LIVE ALONE, AND LIKE IT, ON AN ISLAND (tiny 250-acre STOCKHOLM ISLAND, off the coast of WALES), with 27 Illustrations
This issue also features the 32nd COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover of the Magazine
search for missing Russian aviators; Czechoslovaks; sea birds.
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National Geographic - July 1938, Vol. 74, No. 1
The Map Supplement is NOT included with this magazine. 
ROADS FROM WASHINGTON (Virginia caves; Delaware beaches; Pennsylvania Dutch farms; Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania streets; and islands with wild ponies), with 27 Illustrations
SPRING’S BOUQUETS DECK THE CAPITAL: 10 Natural Color Photographs by Harrison Howell Walker 
TRI-STATE MEDLEY (Virginia; Maryland; and, Delaware): 10 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver 
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH, IN A LAND OF MILD AND HONEY: 10 Natural Color Photographs by J. Baylor Roberts 
THE SOCIETY’S MAP OF HISTORIC AND SCENIC REACHES OF THE NATION’S CAPITAL 
PILGRIMS STILL STOP AT PLYMOUTH (BRITAIN’S Thriving Port on the ENGLISH CHANNEL), with 19 Illustrations
OVER THE ROOF OF OUR CONTINENT (NGS Sponsored Flights Over the Alaska Range, Highest Mountain Range in North America, to Photograph ALASKA’S MOUNT MCKINLEY) with Map 
OVER THE ROOF OF OUR CONTINENT: 17 Illustrations in Duotone from Photographs (MOUNT MCKINLEY (DENALI), ALASKA RANGE, ALASKA) 
GUAM, PERCH OF THE CHINA CLIPPERS, with 24 Illustrations
MEN-BIRDS SOAR ON BOILING AIR (Glider Planes), with 15 Illustrations
Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania Dutch; Guam; Plymoth, England; mountains of Alaska.
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National Geographic - June 1938, Vol. 73, No. 6
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Netherlands Indies; New York’s Adirondacks; and, Canton Island) 
AROUND THE WORLD FOR ANIMALS (NGS-Smithsonian Institution Expedition in which the Director of the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, travels to Java, Sumatra, Japan, and China, bringing back 890 animals for the zoo, among which are included snakes, bears, giraffes, birds, and a tiger), with 34 Illustrations
NETHERLANDS INDIES: PATCHWORK OF PEOPLES: 23 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams 
NEW YORK STATE’S AIR-CONDITIONED ROOF (ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS), with 24 Illustrations
ADIRONDACK IDYLS: 10 Natural Color Photographs by Harrison Howell Walker 
CRUSOES OF CANTON ISLAND: Life on a Tiny Pacific Atoll That Has Flashed Into World Importance (NGS-U.S. NAVY ECLIPSE EXPEDITION OF 1937 travels to the deserted CANTON ISLAND, in the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati where Scientists spend 4 months in preparation of the observation of a SOLAR ECLIPSE), with 7 Illustrations
UNFURLING OLD GLORY ON CANTON ISLAND: 10 Natural Color Photographs and Painting 
FLYING AROUND THE BALTIC (Northern European Countries surrounding the BALTIC SEA including: Baltic States; East Prussia; Estonia; Finland; Poland; Latvia; Lithuania; Prussia; and, Sweden), with 32 Illustrations
WILNO, STEPCHILD OF THE POLISH FRONTIER: 13 Illustrations in Duotone 
This issue also features the 31st COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover of the Magazine
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National Geographic - May 1938, Vol. 73, No. 5
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (New Mexico; and, Monkeys) 
NEW MEXICO MELODRAMA, with 19 Illustrations and Map
NATURE PAINTS NEW MEXICO: 25 Natural Color Photographs by Richard H. Stewart 
FOUR THOUSAND HOURS OVER CHINA, by Capt. Hans Koester, with 26 Illustrations
SINGAPORE: FAR EAST GIBRALTAR IN THE MALAY JUNGLE: 23 Illustrations from Photographs 
MONKEY FOLK, by William M. Mann, Director, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, with 24 Illustrations
WHO’S WHO IN THE MONKEY WORLD: 40 Portraits in Color from Life by Elie Cheverlange 
A FROG THE EATS BATS AND SNAKES (Smokey Jungle Frog of Central and South America): In Captivity, This Big Jungle Amphibian Exhibits an Extraordinary Appetite, with 11 Illustrations
New Mexico; China; Singapore; monkeys; carnivorous jungle frogs.
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National Geographic - April 1938, Vol. 73, No. 4
The Map Supplement is NOT included with this magazine. 
THIRTY-TWO PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR (Belgium; and, Austria) 
BELGIUM, EUROPE IN MINIATURE, with 34 Illustrations
BELGIAN PORTRAITS: 20 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart 
TWEEDSMUIR PARK: THE DIARY OF A PILGRIMAGE (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA), with 24 Illustrations
AGELESS LUSTER OF GREECE AND RHODES: 16 Illustrations in Duotone by Arnold Genthe 
AUSTRIAN AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER, with 12 Illustrations
AUSTRIAN KODACHROMES FROM A CANDID CAMERA: 19 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore 
THE GEOGRAPHIC’S NEW MAP OF EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, by Gilbert Grosvenor, with 1 Illustration and 1 Chart
This issue also features the 30th COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover of the Magazine
Belgium; Greece and Rhodes; Tweedsmuir park, British Columbia, Canada; Austria.
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National Geographic - March 1938, Vol. 73, No. 3
SOUTHWARD HO! IN THE ALICE (Cruise aboard a 52-foot Sailboat along the path of pirates from North Carolina to the West Indies), with 38 Illustrations and 2 Maps
COLORFUL PATHS IN MARTINIQUE AND GUADELOUPE (WEST INDIES): 13 Natural Color Photographs by Edwin L. Wisherd 
CHINA’S GREAT WALL OF SCULPTURE: Man-hewn Caves and Countless Images Form a Colossal Art Wonder of Early Buddhism (Paintings and Carvings by the Toba Tatars of the Northern Wei dynasty, A.D. 386-532, in the Caves at Yun Kang, in China’s Shansi (Shanxi) Province), with 24 Illustrations
BUDDHIST CALM SURVIVES ALONG CHINA’S GREAT WALL: 4 Paintings and 6 Natural Color Photographs 
HONG KONG, BRITAIN’S FAR-FLUNG OUTPOST IN CHINA: 16 Illustrations 
GUERNSEY, THE FRIENDLY ISLE (CHANNEL ISLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM), with 28 Illustrations
CONTENTED GUERNSEY: 11 Natural color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart 
Martinique and Guadeloupe (Leeward Islands); great wall of China; Hong Kong; Guernsey, England.
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National Geographic - February 1938, Vol. 73, No. 2
CASTLES AND PROGRESS IN PORTUGAL, with 37 Illustrations
COLOR CLOSE-UPS OF EUROPE’S CORNER LAND (PORTUGAL): 24 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore 
THE RISE AND FALL OF NANKING (CHINA), with 37 Illustrations
THE INCAS: EMPIRE BUILDERS OF THE ANDES, with 26 Illustrations
IN THE REALM OF THE SONS OF THE SUN (INCAS): 10 Paintings by H. M. Herget 
This issue also features the 29th COCA-COLA (COKE) AD on the Back Cover
Portugal; Nanking, China; the Incas of Peru.
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National Geographic - January 1938, Vol. 73, No. 1
MAGYAR MIRTH AND MELANCHOLY (HUNGARY), with 34 Illustrations
RURAL HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY: 20 Natural Color Photographs by Rudolf Balogh, and Hans Hildenbrand 
SHIPS, FROM DUGOUTS TO DREADNOUGHTS, by Captain Dudley W. Knox, United States Navy, with 27 Illustrations
SHIPS OF THE CENTURIES: 16 Etchings by Norman Wilkinson 
WOMEN’S WORK IN JAPAN, with 32 Illustrations
TRADITION LINGERS IN MODERN JAPAN: 11 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore 
Hungary; ships; women in Japan.
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National Geographic - December 1937, Vol. 72, No. 6
LANDSCAPED KWANGSI, CHINA’S PROVINCE OF PICTORIAL ART, with 34 Illustrations
CHINA’S WONDERLAND: YEN TANG SHAN: 8 Camera Paintings by Herbert Clarence White and others
CHANGING CANTON (Black and White Photographic Essay): 20 Illustrations from Photographs
LAKE GENEVA: CRADLE OF CONFERENCES (SWITZERLAND), with 13 Illustrations
INSIDE CAPE HORN (Eight month Adventure in 26