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This photo is from National Geographic Photography Milestones
Early Photo Series
Photograph by Dr. Joseph F. Rock
When Editor Gilbert Grosvenor needed to quickly fill pages of the upcoming January 1905 issue of National Geographic, he published an unprecedented 11 pages of pictures, including this photo of a 600-year-old monastery nestled on Tibet's Minya Konka mountain. It marked one of the earliest photographic series ever published.