Class of 2027 plebes climb during the Herndon Monument Climb at the U.S. Naval Academy, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. Freshmen, known as Plebes, participate in the climb to celebrate finishing their first year at the academy. The climb was completed in two hours, nineteen minsters and eleven seconds to complete. (Photo by Tom Brenner/AP Photo)

Thor Teigen poses in a fur jacket next to a thermometer displaying a temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit / 55 degrees Celsius at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center, in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Sunday, July 7, 2024. Forecasters said a heat wave could break previous records across the U.S., including at Death Valley. (Photo by Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

Groundsman Darren Cordingley on his way out of the maze on July 11, 2024. Gardeners have had their work cut out after spending a whopping 520 hours trimming one of the world's biggest hedge mazes. It has taken a team of 13 working eight hours a day for five days to tackle the enormous maze at the Longleat estate in Wiltshire, UK. (Photo by Max Willcock/Bournemouth News)

Romanian actress and model Madalina Diana Ghenea poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Photo by Daniel Cole/AP Photo)

Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and American actress Jessica Chastain at Kering's 3rd Annual Caring For Women Dinner at The Pool on September 09, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Nancy Rivera/Splash News and Pictures)

Women playing in the street as the snow falls on Johannesburg for the first time in seventeen years. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1st September 1962

“Basunga”. Basunga (3 weeks-old newborn with albinism) is happily sleeping with his cousin. For now, he does not yet realize the difficulties he will face to integrate into the Congolese society as a PWA. The success of his integration will greatly depends of how he accepts himself and his skin condition a and how educated he will be. Photo location: Kinshasa, Congo RDC. (Photo and caption by Patricia Willocq/National Geographic Photo Contest)

At the beginning of the 20th century, Edward S. Curtis set out to document what he saw as a disappearing race: the Native American. From 1907 to 1930, Curtis took more than 2,000 photos of 80 tribes stretching from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. He then published and sold these photos, along with narrative text, in 20 volumes of work known as “The North American Indian”. It is one of the most significant collections of its kind, “probably the most important photographic document of its age and its topic,” said Jeffrey Garrett, associate university librarian for Special Libraries at Northwestern University. (Photo by Edward S. Curtis)