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The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published
in October 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting
with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet
in 1900–1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented
publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive
pictorial content, and became well known for this style. Among its more
recent issues, the June 1985 cover portrait of 13-year-old Afghan girl Sharbat Gula became one of the magazine's most recognizable images.
In the late 1990s, the magazine began publishing The Complete National Geographic,
a digital compilation of all the past issues of the magazine. It was
then sued over copyright of the magazine as a collective work in Greenberg v. National Geographic
and other cases, and temporarily withdrew the availability of the
compilation. The magazine eventually prevailed in the dispute, and in
July 2009 it resumed publishing a compilation containing all issues
through December 2008. The compilation was later updated to make more
recent issues available, and the archive and digital edition of the
magazine are available online to the magazine's subscribers.
The magazine celebrated its 125th anniversary in October 2013.
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