This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs

Children sit by fishing boats at rest in a Canary Islands harbor in this autochrome published in the May 1930 issue of National Geographic. The image was part of a photo essay—"An Elysium for the Beauty-Seeking Traveler"—that accompanied an article on the Spanish islands.

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