Nothing has inspired the eyes and minds more throughout the 20th Century than National Geographic. (Obviously is still is legit today, but my personal favorites to peruse are back issues from the mid-1900s.) Back in the days when the American family didn’t travel abroad and depended on the collection of adventurous photographers, anthropologists, scientists etc to decipher the confusing, tribal, and complicated natural & social world around them. I must admit I’ve dug through many-a-stack of old NGs over the last decade to collect magazines to get illustration inspiration from, and I found this small clean file of great pics at Sara Gossett’s Flickr.