Anatomy Of An Atomic Bomb Test In Pictures
Here are some incredible photos of the first two atomic bomb tests open to the press.
View ArticleRare Photos From Ellis Island
Here are some rare photos of Ellis Island from the 1950s that were never published in LIFE magazine.
View ArticleInside A Nazi Christmas Party Thrown By Hitler
The images are chilling, bordering on surreal: On December 18, 1941, as World War II rages and the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grow ever clearer — killing operations at the Chełmno...
View ArticleLIFE Photos Of Young Actresses On The Brink Of Fame
There’s nothing quite like charting the ascent of a major new Hollywood player, and as the premier pictorial weekly of its era, LIFE magazine was uniquely positioned to feature more than a few famous...
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath The Vatican
In 1950, LIFE reported on a years-long effort undertaken beneath the staggeringly ornate public realms of the Vatican, as teams of workers meticulously excavated the myriad tombs and other long-sealed,...
View ArticleAnatomy Of An Atomic Bomb Test In Pictures
Here are some incredible photos of the first two atomic bomb tests open to the press.
View ArticleRare Photos From Ellis Island
Here are some rare photos of Ellis Island from the 1950s that were never published in LIFE magazine.
View ArticleInside A Nazi Christmas Party Thrown By Hitler
The images are chilling, bordering on surreal: On December 18, 1941, as World War II rages and the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grow ever clearer — killing operations at the Chełmno...
View ArticleLIFE Photos Of Young Actresses On The Brink Of Fame
There’s nothing quite like charting the ascent of a major new Hollywood player, and as the premier pictorial weekly of its era, LIFE magazine was uniquely positioned to feature more than a few famous...
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath The Vatican
In 1950, LIFE reported on a years-long effort undertaken beneath the staggeringly ornate public realms of the Vatican, as teams of workers meticulously excavated the myriad tombs and other long-sealed,...
View ArticleThe Invention Of Teenagers
Historians and social critics differ on the specifics of the timeline, but most cultural observers agree that the strange and fascinating creature known as the American teenager — as we now understand...
View ArticleHow LIFE Brought The Zapruder Film To Light
50 years after JFK’s assassination, here's the story of how an editor named Richard Stolley flew straight to Dallas from Los Angeles within hours of the assassination; how he tracked down Zapruder; how...
View ArticleBehind The Photograph That Won WWII
Here's the stranger-than-fiction story behind one of the most influential photographs ever taken in any war: a 1943 picture of three dead Americans half-buried in the sand at a desolate place called...
View ArticleThe Photo That Changed The Face Of AIDS
The haunting image of David Kirby on his death bed, taken by a journalism student named Therese Frare, quickly became the one photograph most powerfully identified with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
View ArticleThe Third Reich's Myth-Making Machinery, In Color
Color photographs by Hitler's personal photographer offer an uncomfortably intimate perspective on the aesthetics of the Third Reich's bizarre mythology.
View ArticleLife With Mike The Headless Chicken
Mike was to be served for dinner in Colorado one night in 1945. But once his head was chopped off, something funny happened: He didn't die.
View ArticleMount Washington’s Brutal Summit: Insanely Bad Weather Lives Here
Mount Washington’s weather is a source of constant, and occasionally terrifying, wonderment.
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