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A Century of Photos
MARCH 2002
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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MARCH 2002
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High-wire Act
Workers entering a South African mine traveled by a system of cables stretched from rim to pit floor. The tramway also served to bring diamonds up from below. "So thickly together were these lines set," wrote Gardner F. Williams in his 1905 book, The Diamond Mines of South Africa, "that the whole face of the vast pit seemed to be covered by a monstrous cobweb, shining in the moonlight as if every filament was a silver strand."
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