Brand: National Geographic Society

Item: Vintage softcover magazine lot featuring six original National Geographic issues from 1975, Volume 148, Numbers 1-6 (July through December).

Included issues and cover stories: July 1975 (Benjamin Franklin, food and famine, Cape Cod's circle of seasons, the last Andaman Islanders, Ozark woodcarvers, whistling swans, debut of National Geographic World children's magazine); August 1975 (the Niger river of sorrow and hope, the new Toronto, Ice Bird ends her odyssey, coal as black gold, the treasure of Porto Santo, Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews).

Also includes: September 1975 (strange world of the Red Sea reefs, Mark Twain mirror of America, Greenland feels the winds of change, South Korea what next, Alaska's big brown bears); October 1975 (orangutans, women of the revolution patriots in petticoats, the Arab World Inc, Alabama: Dixie to a different tune, miracle of the potholes, We Americans book feature).

Remainder of lot: November 1975 (Christopher Columbus and the New World he found, Chinatown the gilded ghetto, trek to lofty Hunza and beyond, Library of Congress the nation's bookcase, Romania maverick on a tightrope, Manitoba's fantastic snake pits); December 1975 (the Maya children of time, riddle of the glyphs, Tikal's restored grandeur and past, new energy from the wind, rafting down the Yukon, Iowa's enduring Amana Colonies).

Format: Illustrated color magazines with period photography, maps and diagrams, plus extensive mid-1970s advertising on interior and back pages.

Great for collectors of vintage National Geographic, researchers, teachers, and anyone interested in historical articles and classic cover art from the mid-1970s.