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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 1940-1949

National Geographic - December 1949, Vol. 96, No. 6
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Greece; Arnhem Land, Australia; and, New Mexico)
War-torn Greece Looks Ahead, with 11 Illustrations; and, with 21 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams
Exploring Stone Age Arnhem Land (Northern Australia), with 14 Illustrations and Map; and, with 25 Natural Color Photographs by Howell Walker
Adobe New Mexico, with 18 Illustrations and Map; and, with 28 Natural Color Photographs by Justin Locke
Sheep Airlift in New Guinea: 16 Illustrations
The Society’s New Map of Classical Lands, with 1 Illustration
. Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (Santa Clause)
MAP Supplement - Classical Lands of the Mediterranean, 22x52 An extremely interesting map of the ancient Greco-Roman world. There are 270 interesting historical notes on this map. Insets on the map show Ancient Rome, Athens and the World of Homer, Herodotus and Strabo. A valuable map for any student of ancient Greece and Rome. Very decorative.
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National Geographic - November 1949, Vol. 96, No. 5
Hawaii; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; spoonbills; Angel Falls, Venezuala; Oregon snow survey. Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - October 1949, Vol. 96, No. 4
The Map Supplement is NOT included with this magazine.
Forty-eight Pages of Illustrations in Color (Quebec, Canada; Far North Nomads; and, Fairbanks, Alaska)
Quebec’s Forests Farms and Frontiers (Canada), with 4 Illustrations and Map; and, with 35 Natural Color Photographs by John E. Fletcher
Nomads of the Far North, with 13 Illustrations; and, with 16 Paintings by W. Langdon Kihn (Paintings depict native peoples of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, at the turn of the century: Algonquian, Athapascan, and, Eskimauan linguistic stocks; Cree, and, Micmac Indians; Old Bering Sea People; Shamanism)
Busy Fairbanks Sets Alaska’s Pace, with 8 Illustrations; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by O. C. Sweet
Top of the World: The National Geographic Society’s New Map of Northlands
Freedom Train Tours America (Spirit of 1776 streamliner train tours America with priceless documents marking historic milestones in US History): 16 Illustrations
Milestones in My Arctic Journeys, by Willie Knutsen, with 22 Illustrations  .Back cover advertisement:        Spam, Hormel
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National Geographic - September 1949, Vol. 96, No. 3
Sixty-four Pages of Illustrations in Color (Minnesota; Peiping, China; Escalante Wilderness, Utah; and, Basques’ Pigeons)
Minnesota Makes Ideas Pay, with 10 Illustrations and Map; and, with 32 Natural Color Photographs by John E. Fletcher and B. Anthony Stewart
Power Comes Back to Peiping (China), with 8 Illustrations and 2 Maps; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by David D. Duncan
First Motor Sortie Into Escalante Land (Escalante wilderness, located south of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah), with 6 Illustrations and Map; and, with 27 Natural Color Photographs by Jack Breed
Pigeon Netting, Sport of Basques (France-Spain Border): 16 Illustrations and Map
Cruise to Stone Age Arnhem Land (Aborigines, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia), with 10 Illustrations and Map 
Minnesota; Peiping, China (Peking, Beijing); Escalante expedition, Utah; Basque pigeon netting ; Arnhem Land, Australia. Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - August 1949, Vol. 96, No. 2
SPECIAL ISSUE Vegetables
Sixty-four Pages of Illustrations in Color (Vegetables; Appalachian Trail; and, Andorra)
Our Vegetable Travelers, with 5 Illustrations; and, with 32 Paintings by Else Bostelmann
Skyline (Appalachian) Trail from Maine to Georgia, with 15 Illustrations and Map; and, with 16 Natural Color Photographs by Robert F. Sisson
Gilbert Grosvenor’s Golden Jubilee, with 9 Illustrations; and, with Portrait by Charles J. Fox
Incredible Andorra, with 7 Illustrations and Map; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart . Back cover advertisement: Grace Line Cruises
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National Geographic - July 1949, Vol. 96, No. 1
SPECIAL ISSUE Shells
Appalachian Valley Pilgrimage, with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by Justin Locke (New York to Alabama corridor within which is included: Blue Ridge Mountains; Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania; Hagerstown, Maryland; Massanutten Mountain, Virginia; Shenandoah Valley, Virginia-West Virginia)
Shells Take You Over World Horizons, with 16 Illustrations; and, with 41 Natural Color Photographs by Rutherford Platt
Skyway Below the Clouds (Designed for the amateur flier, the Skyway 1, or The Wright Way, is a network of clearly defined flight paths for air traffic), with 15 Illustrations and Map
Lapland’s Reindeer Roundup (Lapland has no fixed frontier; it extends across Arctic Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia): 14 Natural Color Photographs by Goran Algard
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania): Workshop of the Titans, with 22 Illustrations . Back cover advertisement:        Hormel Ham
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National Geographic - June 1949, Vol. 95, No. 6 
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Italy; US West; and, Newfoundland, Canada)
Italy Smiles Again, with 13 Illustrations and Map; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by Luigi Onelli
The West Through Boston Eyes, with 13 Illustrations and Map; and, with 29 Natural Color Photographs by Stewart Anderson
Newfoundland, Canada’s New Province, with 15 Illustrations and 2 Maps; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by Robert F. Sisson
Menhaden, Uncle Sam’s Top Commercial Fish (one of the many varieties of herring), with 10 Illustrations
The Society’s New Map of Europe and the Near East, with 1 Illustration and Map ). Back cover advertisement: Coca-Cola (lighthouse scene)
Price: $15 - EX/VG The Map Supplement (Europe and the Near East) is included with this magazine
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National Geographic - May 1949, Vol. 95, No. 5
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (California; Flags of the Americas; and, Tibetans)
California, Horn of Plenty, with 10 Illustrations and Map; and, with 30 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Airlift to Berlin, with 26 Illustrations and Map
Goggle Fishing in California Waters (Spear fishing while snorkeling), with 7 Illustrations; and, with 12 Natural Color Photographs by Lamar Boren
Flags of the Americas, with 6 Illustrations; and, with 172 Paintings by Elizabeth W. King
A Woman Paints the Tibetans, with 15 Illustrations and Map; and, with 21 Paintings
California; Beflin airlift; flags of the Americas; Tibet.
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National Geographic - April 1949, Vol. 95, No. 4
SPECIAL ISSUE The British Way
Forty-eight Pages of Illustrations in Color (British Way)
The British Way: Great Britain’s Major Gifts to Freedom, Democratic Government, Science, and Society, by Sir Evelyn Wrench, Founder of the English-Speaking Union, with 19 Illustrations; and, with 51 Paintings
Our Search for British Paintings, with 4 Illustrations
The Societies New Map of the British Isles by Gilbert Grosvenor. Back cover advertisement: Coca-Cola (lady in flower hat)
Price: $12 - VG The Map Supplement (The British Isles) is included with this magazine
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National Geographic - March 1949, Vol. 95, No. 3
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Dixie; 1948 Eclipse through Asia and Alaska; and, Panama)
Dixie Spins the Wheel of Industry (postwar South industrial development: North & South Carolina; Georgia; Alabama; Tennessee; Mississippi; and, Louisiana), with 10 Illustrations; and, with 33 Natural Color Photographs by J. Baylor Roberts
Operation Eclipse: 1948, with 13 Illustrations and Map; and, with 35 Natural Color Photographs by William A. Kinney (NGS expeditions to multiple locations in Asia and Alaska including in order of observations: Mergui, Burma; Bangkok, Siam (Thailand); Wukang, China; Onyo, Japan; Rebun, Japan; Shemya & Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska)
Exploring the Past in Panama, with 16 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by Richard H. Stewart
Spices, the Essence of Geography, with 19 Illustrations . Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - February 1949, Vol. 95, No. 2
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Denmark; Old Natchez, Mississippi; and, Sahara)
2000 Miles Through Europe’s Oldest Kingdom (Denmark), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 32 Natural Color Photographs by Isobel Wylie Hutchison
History Repeats in Old Natchez (Mississippi), with 8 Illustrations; and, with 16 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Oasis-Hopping in the Sahara (Algeria), with 7 Illustrations and Map; and, with 21 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams
Sea Fever (18-year-old adventurer’s 14-month solo journey from Ecuador to Florida by walking, and paddling or sailing a dugout canoe, the Sea Fever), with 25 Illustrations and Map
Biggest Worm Farm Caters To Platypuses (New York’s Bronx Zoo’s biggest earthworm-breeding farm in the world, started to feed two duckbilled platypuses, who eat about two pounds of worms each day), with 15 Illustrations . Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (coke machine)
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National Geographic - January 1949, Vol. 95, No. 1
Yankee sailing ship; U.S. national monuments; Everglades National Park, Florida Wildlife Paintings by Walter A. Weber.; occupied Germany. 
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National Geographic - December 1948, Vol. 94, No. 6
SPECIAL ISSUE  Prehistoric Paintings of Lascaux
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Sonoma Valley, California; German Masterpieces; Curlew’s Secret; and, Lascaux Cave)
My Life in the Valley of the Moon (Sonoma Valley, California), with 17 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Masterpieces on Tour (German-owned masterpieces on tour in United States), with 6 Illustrations; and, with 23 German-owned Paintings by Harry A. McBride
The Curlew’s Secret (Expedition that discovered the nesting grounds of the bristle-thighed curlew birds in the remote Alaskan tundra), with 5 Illustrations and Map; and, with 12 Natural Color Photographs by Arthur A. Allen
Lascaux Cave, Cradle of World Art (Lascaux, in the hills near Dordogne, France), with 13 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams
Sinai Sheds New Light on the Bible, with 15 Illustrations and Map
Mapping Our Changing Southwest, with 8 Illustrations. Back cover advertisement: Coca-Cola (Santa Clause)
Price: $25 - EX/VG The Map Supplement (Southwestern United states) is included with this magazine
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National Geographic - November 1948, Vol. 94, No. 5
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (4-H Boys and Girls; Portugal; and, Uruguay)
4-H Boys and Girls Grow More Food, with 15 Illustrations; and, with 25 Natural Color Photographs by Sisson and Roberts
Portugal is Different, with 10 Illustrations; and, with 28 Natural Color Photographs by Clement E. Conger
The Purple Land of Uruguay, with 10 Illustrations and Map; and, with 20 Natural Color Photographs by Luis Marden
The Fire of Heaven, Electricity, with 15 Illustrations
Sailing with Sindbad’s Sons (Sailing the monsoon winds with Arab sailors in a vessel little changed since Biblical times; Aden Protectorate; Dhows; Middle East; Persian Gulf; Yemen), with 9 Illustrations and Map
4-H clubs; Portugal; Uruguay; electricity; Arabian sailors. Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - October 1948, Vol. 94, No. 4
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Rajputana, India; Maine; and, Brazil)
Feudal Splendor Lingers in Rajputana (India), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 38 Natural Color Photographs by Volkmar Wentzel
Aroostook County, Maine, Source of Potatoes, with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by Howell Walker
Brazil’s Land of Minerals (Minas Gerais state), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 21 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore
Exploring Aleutian Volcanoes (Alaska), with 13 Illustrations and Map
Uncle Sam Bends a Twig in Germany, with 20 Illustrations and Map. Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (soda fountain)
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National Geographic - September 1948, Vol. 94, No. 3
SPECIAL ISSUE American Masters in the National Gallery
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (National Gallery; Smithsonian Institution; Mesa Verde; and, Chickens)
Exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with 15 Illustrations and Map
American Masters in the National Gallery: 24 Natural Color Photographs by John Walker
The Smithsonian Institution, with 12 Illustrations; and, with 13 Natural Color Photographs by Justin N. Locke
Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde, with 7 Illustrations; and, with 17 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Easter Egg Chickens (Breed of chickens that lay multicolored eggs, from a variation of the Araucana variety of Chile), with 9 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
Seeking Mindanao’s Strangest Creatures (Expedition to capture live specimens for zoos in the United States from this Philippines Island), with 19 Illustrations and Map
The Society’s New Map of Washington . Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
Price: $12- VG  The Map Supplement ( A Pocket Map of Central Washington) is included with this magazine.
Price: $12- VG  The Map Supplement ( A Pocket Map of Central Washington) is included with this magazine.
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National Geographic - August 1948, Vol. 94, No. 2 
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Rhode Island; Norway; and, Potomac River)
Rhode Island, Modern City-State, with 11 Illustrations and Map; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Norway Cracks Her Mountain Shell, with 6 Illustrations and Map; and, with 34 Natural Color Photographs by Gilbert Grosvenor
Down the Potomac by Canoe, with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by Walter Meayers Edwards
Cane Bridges of Asia: 9 Illustrations
Keeping House for a Biologist in Colombia, with 19 Illustrations and Map . Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (at gas pump)
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National Geographic - July 1948, Vol. 94, No. 1
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Hudson River, New York; Pennsylvania; Anatolia, Turkey; and, Pacific Wards of US)
The Mighty Hudson (Hudson River and Valley, New York), with 10 Illustrations and Map; and, with 23 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
Artists Look at Pennsylvania, with 16 Paintings
Peasants of Anatolia (Turkey; old Asia Minor), with 6 Illustrations and Map; and, with 12 Natural Color Photographs by Alfred Marchionini
Pacific Wards of Uncle Sam (United States Trust Territory of Pacific Islands includes the Marshall, Marianas, and Caroline Islands, and many other smaller islands and atolls), with 11 Illustrations and Map; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore
Liechtenstein Thrives on Stamps, with 4 Illustrations and Map
Spitsbergen Mines Coal Again (Photo Essay depicting life at the rebuilt Spitsbergen coal mines, three years after the end of World War II WWII; NORWAY’S Arctic Outpost; Svalbard, Arctic Ocean): 12 Illustrations
Ceylon, Island of the Lion People, with 12 Illustrations and Map. Back cover advertisement:        Hormel Ham
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National Geographic - June 1948, Vol. 93, No. 6
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Midshipmen’s Cruise; Labrador Canada Birds; and, Tetons)
Midshipmen’s Cruise (First voyage of Naval cadets aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey), with 5 Illustrations; and, with 40 Natural Color Photographs by William J. Aston and Alexander G. B. Grosvenor
Sea Bird Cities Off Audubon’s Labrador (Labrador peninsula, Canada’s seabirds), with 12 Illustrations and Map; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by Arthur A. Allen
Luxembourg, Survivor of Invasions, with 15 Illustrations and Map
Cloud Gardens in the Tetons (Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 16 Natural Color Photographs by Frank and John Craighead
Mapping the Nation’s Breadbasket (central United States: Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; and, Wisconsin), with 14 Illustrations
The Society’s New Map of the North Central United States . Back cover advertisement: Coca-Cola (baseball)
Price: $12 - VG  The Map Supplement (North Central United states) is included with this magazine.
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National Geographic - May 1948, Vol. 93, No. 5
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Belgium; Cotswold Hills, England; and, Havasupai Indians, Arizona)
Belgium Comes Back, with 11 Illustrations and Map; and, with 34 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard Owen Williams
By Cotswold Lanes to Wold’s End (Cotswold Hills, England), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 31 Natural Color Photographs by Melville Bell Grosvenor
Land of the Havasupai (Indians living in a valley adjacent to the Grand Canyon, Arizona), with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 10 Natural Color Photographs by Jack Breed
Postwar Journey Through Java (Netherlands East Indies), with 21 Illustrations and Map
Last of the Cape Horners (Final voyage of the Pamir, a cargo-carrying square-rigged ship, from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, around Cape Horn, South America, to New Zealand)
Square-rigger in a Tempest (Pamir ship voyage photographs): 11 Illustrations 
Belgium; Cotswolds, England; Havasupai of Arizona; Java. Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - April 1948, Vol. 93, No. 4
Sixty-four Pages of Illustrations in Color (Virginia Founders; TVA’s Great Lakes of the South; Saudi Arabia; and, Kashmir)
Founders of Virginia, with 7 Illustrations and Map; and, with 22 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
Around the Great Lakes of the South (created when the Tennessee Valley Authority TVA built a series of dams along the Tennessee River, thus adding 15,000 miles of navigable inland and coastal waterways), with 9 Illustrations and 2 Maps; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by J. Baylor Roberts
In Search of Arabia’s Past, with 9 Illustrations and Map
Saudi Arabia, Oil Kingdom: 20 Natural Color Photographs, by Maynard Owen Williams
The Idyllic Vale of Kashmir, with 6 Illustrations and Map; and, with 20 Natural Color Photographs by Volkmar Wentzel
Down Mark Twain’s River on a Raft (Mississippi River), with 21 Illustrations and Map . Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (various scenes)
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National Geographic - March 1948, Vol. 93, No. 3
SPECIAL ISSUE Circus
Forty-eight Pages of Illustrations in Color (Circus; China; and, Patent Plants)
The Wonder City That Moves by Night, with 4 Illustrations; and, with 32 Natural Color Photographs by Beverly Kelley
Circus Action in Color
Along the Yangtze, Main Street of China, with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 16 Natural Color Photographs by W. Robert Moore
Patent Plants Enrich Our World, with 18 Illustrations, including 8 in Natural Color, by Orville H. Kneen
The Romance of American Furs, with 19 Illustrations
An Arnhem Land Adventure (Aborigines of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia), with 28 Illustrations
The Society Maps a New Australia . Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
Price: $19 - EX/VG The Map Supplement (Australia) IS included with this magazine.
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National Geographic - February 1948, Vol. 93, No. 2
SPECIAL ISSUE INDIANS OF THE FAR WEST - Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Everglades; Far West Indians; Liberia; and, Mount St. Elias)
Haunting Heart of the Everglades, with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 21 Natural Color Photographs by Willard R. Culver
Indians of the Far West (living between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Coast), with 5 Illustrations; and, with 16 Paintings by W. Langdon Kihn
Rubber-cushioned Liberia, with 8 Illustrations and Map; and, with 21 Natural Color Photographs by Charles W. Allmon
First American Ascent of Mount St. Elias (Alaska-Yukon Territory, Canada), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by Maynard M. Miller
Our Air Age Speeds Ahead (Rapid growth in Air Travel including: Fighter planes; Helicopters; Cargo planes; Passenger planes), with 23 Illustrations
Shawneetown Forsakes the Ohio (Illinois town, originally located along the Ohio River with repeated flooding, forces most of the residents and businesses to move away from Old Town to the higher and safer elevation of New Town), with 13 Illustrations and Map
Everglades National Park, Florida; Indians of the U.S. west; Liberia; Mount St. Elias, Alaska; aircraft; Shawneetown, Illinois.
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National Geographic - January 1948, Vol. 93, No. 1
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (West Indies; Jan Mayen; Pacific Atoll; and, Fun)
Carib Cruises the West Indies (ketch), with 17 Illustrations and 2 Maps; and, with 40 Natural Color Photographs by Carleton Mitchell
Seal Hunting Off Jan Mayen (Island in the Norwegian Sea), with 5 Illustrations; and, with 10 Natural Color Photographs by Ole Friele Backer
We Survive on a Pacific Atoll (Two Navy sailors gather survival information on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, North Pacific Ocean), with 9 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs
Fun Helped Them Fight (Aircraft names used in World War II WWII provide means of identification, and morale-boosting), with 12 Natural Color Photographs by Stuart E. Jones
Pyramids of the New World (First Americans constructed Tombs, Temples, Storehouses, and other structures with unknown purpose: Adena culture; Aztec; Hopewell culture; Indian mounds; Indians of Central & South America; Maya; Mississippi River & Valley; Mound builders; Pre-Columbian civilizations), with 19 Illustrations
‘Round the Horn by Submarine (U.S.S. Sea Robin was the first U.S. submarine to make the complete voyage around Cape Horn, South America), with 16 Illustrations . Back cover advertisement:        Hormel Ham
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National Geographic - December 1947, Vol. 92, No. 6
Louisiana; Palestine (Israel); trans-Jordan; London; Greece; San Antonio, Texas. Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (Santa Clause
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National Geographic - November 1947, Vol. 92, No. 5
Fifty-six Pages of Illustrations in Color (Ottawa, Canada; Delhi, India; Yemen; and, the Northern Lights)
Exploring Ottawa (Canada), with 9 Illustrations; and, with 14 Natural Color Photographs by John E. Fletcher
Delhi (India), Capital of a New Dominion, with 16 Illustrations and Map; and, with 20 Natural Color Photographs by Volkmar Wentzel
Yemen, Southern Arabia’s Mountain Wonderland, with 18 Illustrations and Map
Ancient Skyscrapers of Yemen: 16 Natural Color Photographs by Richard H. Sanger
Unlocking Secrets of the Northern Lights, with 39 Illustrations and Map; and, with 8 Paintings by William Crowder. Back cover advertisement:        Sheaffer's Pens
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National Geographic - October 1947, Vol. 92, No. 4
Fifty-one Illustrations in Color (Antarctica; and, Guatemala)
Our Navy Explores Antarctica by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, USN, Ret., with 59 Illustrations and 3 Maps; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs
Guatemala Revisited: 40 Natural Color Photographs by Luis Marden. Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (bottling factory)
Price: $15 - VG The Map Supplement (The Society’s New Map of the Caribbean Area) IS included with this Magazine.
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National Geographic - September 1947, Vol. 92, No. 3
SPECIAL ISSUE - BIRD DOGS - Forty Pages of Illustrations in Color
Eclipse Hunting in Brazil’s Ranchland, with 21 Illustrations and 22 Natural Color Photographs
Exploring America’s Great Sand Barrier Reef (Mid-Atlantic Coast of U.S.), with 13 Illustrations and Map and 10 Natural Color Photographs
Indian Life Before the Colonists Came: 16 Historic Engravings
Born Hunters - the Bird Dogs, with 10 Illustrations and 19 Paintings by Walter A. Weber 
Split-second Time Runs Today’s World, with 36 Illustrations 
Eclipse hunting in Brazil; Great Sand Barrier reef; pre-colonial American Indians; bird dogs; clocks.
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National Geographic - August 1947, Vol. 92, No. 2
Forty Pages of Illustrations in Color (Navajo Land; Utah; Plymouth Colony & Massachusetts; and, Hummingbirds)
Desert River Through Navajo Land (San Juan River, Utah and Arizona), with 11 Illustrations and Map; and, with 11 Natural Color Photographs by Fred G. Brandenburg
Utah’s Arches of Stone, with 1 Illustration; and, with 15 Natural Color Photographs by Jack Breed
Land of the Pilgrims’ Pride (Plymouth Colony republic; and, Plymouth, Massachusetts), with 14 Illustrations and Map; and, with 12 Natural Color Photographs by Robert F. Sisson
Hummingbirds in Action, with 2 Illustrations; and, with 15 Natural Color Photographs by Harold E. Edgerton
Scenes of Postwar Finland, with 30 Illustrations and Map
Men, Moose, and Mink of Northwest Angle (Northwest Angle, Minnesota is attached to Manitoba Province, Canada, cut off from the rest of the U.S. by geographic features), with 18 Illustrations and Map . Back cover advertisement:        Coca-Cola (soda fountain)
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Price: $11 - VG/G
Price: $10 - G
National Geographic - July 1947, Vol. 92, No. 1
Forty Pages of Illustrations in Color (Flowers; and, Mohawk River, New York)
The World in Your Garden (Flowers from around the World), with 10 Illustrations; and, with 24 Paintings by Else Bostelmann
Drums to Dynamos on the Mohawk (Mohawk River, New York), with 24 Illustrations and Map; and, with 19 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
British Castles, History in Stone (special printing on heavy darker stock paper): 16 Etchings by Norman Wilkinson
Adventures with the Survey Navy (U.S. Navy’s Hydrographic Office, responsible in WWII for charting a route to Japan through the treacherous waters of the Pacific Ocean), with 18 Illustrations and Map
Exotic flowers in gardens; the Mohawk river (New York); British castles; the survey Navy.
Price: $12 - VG
Price: $12 - VG
Price: $12 - VG
Price: $10 - VG/G
Price: $5 - POOR
National Geographic - June 1947, Vol. 91, No. 6
Forty Pages of Illustrations in Color (Washington, DC; Canadian Rockies; and, Wisconsin)
Washington: Home of the Nation’s Great, with 18 Illustrations; and, with 18 Natural Color Photographs by B. Anthony Stewart
Washington National Monument Society, with 3 Illustrations