Perhaps one of the most well known Kodachrome photos, National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry's haunting portrait of an Afghan refugee appeared on the cover of the magazine in June 1985.

On a final expedition, McCurry will shoot some of the last rolls of Kodachrome film and donate those images to the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. (Listen to an NPR interview with McCurry about the demise of Kodachrome.)

Kodak has also compiled a tribute gallery of Kodachrome images, including the "Afghan girl" portrait, on the company's Web site.

(Find out how a National Geographic photographer named a landmark after Kodachrome, and view more milestones in photographic technology on the National Geographic Society's photography site.)

—Photograph by Steve McCurry