National Geographic's Collectors Corner
Moments in Time: Society "milestones" & 'The Magazine' history
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June 1996 ~ 30 years ago Nat Geo went ONLINE !
"Lead the Way!" -- Nat Geo onlineOn June 20th of 1996, The National Geographic Society (mainly the magazine content) took the plunge into the world wide web this month, June 1996! It was a rough, primitive website in the early days, but now it is a highly sophisticated and interactive site.The…
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Remembering George Shiras 3d -- flashback e-article + photos + NGM's + books
~ George Shiras 3d ~(1859-1942) --------------------------------------------------------Needless to say, George Shiras the 3d, besides being the son of a Supreme Court…
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~ Passing the torch, & the End of a long Epoch ~ 30 years ago May 1996 . . . Gilbert M. Grosvenor ~
"Hail to the Chief!"On May 1, 1996, President & Chairman of the N.G.S., Gilbert Melville Grosvenor retired as Society President. The Hubbard-Bell-Grosvenor family led the Magazine and Society from 1888-1996. …
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1923 Change in Copyright
1923 Change in CopyrightBetween April and May 1923, the National Geographic Magazine changed the copyright listed along the bottom of its internal masthead. The masthead on the April 1923, and prior issues, simply reads: "COPYRIGHT. 19XX. BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. WASHINGTON D. C."…
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130 years of NGS ~ Jan. 1888 - 2018 ~ (misc. links . . . )
"National Geographic Celebrates 130 Years" (press release) --->…
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50th anniversary of the National Geographic (magazine) Reprint set ~ the 1964 announcement
"Only a small number of people can hope to have a set of originals."~ Edwin Buxbaum...Feeling a little nostalgic here, and in this week and season of expressing gratitude, I thought perhaps…
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