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The Complete LIFE Index, 1936–1972
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1,859 issues · 1936–1972
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1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1937 52 issues
Apr 26, 1937 White Leghorn Rooster (only with Logo moved from upper left position - is in small letters at the bottom See in stock → Dec 13, 1937 Billions of Dollars & Millions of Men (Trains See in stock → 1938 52 issues
Aug 15, 1938 High Priest - 3000 B.C. Outdoor Music, Diggers photo essay, Wallpaper Designs, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", Irving Berlin's Story, Honest Umpires, Sears Roebuck's New Covers See in stock → 1939 52 issues
Mar 13, 1939 World's Fair: "American Beauties" (Sculpture See in stock → May 22, 1939 Girl Guide - NY World's Fair, Patty Berg, Brazil photo essay, Farley Runs for President, Girl Guides at the Fair See in stock →
1941 52 issues
Feb 3, 1941 War News From Inside Germany (Goebbels & Goring on See in stock → Jul 7, 1941 Special: Defense - US Arms (General George Patton See in stock → 1943 52 issues
Jan 4, 1943 Jimmy Byrnes: A Close-Up On the "Assistant President" See in stock → May 3, 1943 Spring Match (Fashions - model was Diana Dill, future wife of Kirk Douglas, mother of Michael See in stock → Jul 5, 1943 America 's Combat Dead (with 23 pages of names of combat dead See in stock → 1944 52 issues
Oct 9, 1944 Autumn Elegance, Navy Seabees, Wartime England paintings, Thomas E Dewey Close-up, Elsa Maxwell Party photo essay See in stock → Nov 6, 1944 Celeste Holm in " Bloomer Girl ", 1944 Elections, Plea For France, Harry S Truman Close-up, John W Bricker Close-up, Tito's Men photo essay, Jap Civilians on Saipan See in stock → 1945 53 issues
Aug 20, 1945 "Tooey" Spaatz - Bomber of Japan --End of WWII - many articles See in stock → 1946 52 issues
Aug 12, 1946 Loretta Young Models a Decade of Nightgowns & Pajamas See in stock → 1947 52 issues
Feb 3, 1947 Young Broadway Actresses (Patricia Neal, others See in stock → May 26, 1947 History of Western Culture: Life of Medieval Man, Part 3 See in stock → Jun 9, 1947 Young Ballerina (Ricky Soma, later wife of John Huston, mother of Anjelica Huston See in stock → 1948 52 issues
Jan 5, 1948 Jinnah of Pakistan, Record NY City snowstorm, Portrait of a US Communist, The Book of Hours photo essay See in stock → Feb 9, 1948 Robert A Taft: Republican Presidential Candidate See in stock → Feb 23, 1948 Skiing (15 pages inside), Nancy Walker, Trouble in Hollywood." T-Men", Sicilian Bandit, Trouble in Hollywood See in stock → Apr 12, 1948 Barbara Bel Geddes, Bowling photo essay, Mr Blandings Goes To Hollywood by Eric Hodgins, The Atomic Bomb & Posterity, Sculpture, Spring Fashions, " I Remember Mama " See in stock → May 3, 1948 Career Girl (with photo essay inside), Labor violence, Churchill War Memoirs part 3, TV in movie theatre, Italy's Victory, Baseball Opener See in stock → May 10, 1948 Republican Presidential Candidate Earl Warren See in stock → May 17, 1948 Hollywood Wives and Daughters: Mrs. David Niven See in stock → 1949 52 issues
Jan 3, 1949 Famous Babies - Dwight D Eisenhower II, Caribbean Winter, " The Paleface" movie review See in stock → Feb 7, 1949 Beginning of Vol. 2 of Churchill's War Memoirs See in stock → Mar 7, 1949 Television Review Team: Marge & Gower Champion See in stock → Nov 7, 1949 Lunt and Fonteyn: 25 Years of World's Greatest Acting Team See in stock → Nov 21, 1949 Ricardo Montalban: Hollywood 's New Romantic Star See in stock → Dec 26, 1949 God The Creator: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling (22 pages in color See in stock →
1950 52 issues
Apr 24, 1950 Blouses Under $5, Bob Hope TV show, Articles by John Foster Dulles, Aldous Huxley (on El Greco), "Destination Moon" See in stock → May 8, 1950 Jackie Robinson: Star Ballplayer Stars in a Movie See in stock → May 22, 1950 A King's Story: The Duke & Duchess of Windsor See in stock → Jul 3, 1950 The American Revolution: Washington at Trenton See in stock → Jul 31, 1950 24th Division Soldiers at Front (Korea) US Museum Purchases, That Infernal Weather, Marlon Brando Profile, Indian Menace in India, Ping-Pong For Pigeons See in stock → Aug 14, 1950 Uncle John Hoskins: Naval Air Boss in Far East See in stock → Oct 16, 1950 Special: U.S. Schools: Winnetka High School Girl See in stock → Nov 6, 1950 Horse Rider Show, Connecticut River photo essay, Al Jolson obit, Churchill Memoirs, Lipizzans, "Mad Wednesday" See in stock → Dec 4, 1950 Berlin Girl: West Berlin - a Gay and Courageous City See in stock → Dec 25, 1950 Special Section for Children: 23 Pages of Christmas Fun, Christmas in Korea photos, Ogden Nash article, "Guys and Dolls" See in stock → 1951 53 issues
Mar 5, 1951 First Report of the Paris Collections - "Diors Pleats and Petticoats" See in stock → Jul 9, 1951 Summer Party in Charlotte, N.C. Sunday in Korea, Brooklyn Marathon Grand Jury photo essay, Greatest Ballerina, "Strangers On a Train", Camping See in stock → Nov 19, 1951 Three Great Ladies of the Theatre (Fontanne, Cornell & Hayes See in stock → Dec 31, 1951 Special: Asia - It's Troubles and Opportunities See in stock → 1952 52 issues
Jan 14, 1952 Famous Britons (Painter Augustus John), Churchill in New York, Airman's Story, Wisconsin Culture, "Death of a Salesman" See in stock → Mar 3, 1952 Patrice Munsel: Met's Saucy Glamour Girl (with color photos See in stock → Jul 7, 1952 Arlene Dahl: Lingerie Designer and Pin-Up Girl See in stock → Sep 1, 1952 Ernest Hemingway -"The Old Man and the Sea" (first publication See in stock → Oct 6, 1952 San Francisco Opera Opening: Mrs. Peter Thieriot See in stock → Oct 20, 1952 New Crop of Beauties in Italy's Film Boom: Lucia Bose See in stock → Dec 1, 1952 Suzanne Cloutier: Gallery of Young French Actresses See in stock → 1953 52 issues
Jan 12, 1953 Majorca Displays Resort Clothes from US and Europe See in stock → Jan 19, 1953 Big-Time Managers in the Cabinet (Defense & Treasury Secretaries See in stock → Jan 26, 1953 Stylist For Ohrbach's Low-Cost High Fashions See in stock → Feb 16, 1953 Her Majesty's Own Guards (A Coldstream Sergeant See in stock → May 18, 1953 Harvest of Arts in the Midwest: Coed Opera Student See in stock → May 25, 1953 Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" See in stock → Nov 9, 1953 Small-Town Girl Gets New Name and a New Career See in stock → 1954 52 issues
Jul 5, 1954 Famous Cartoonist Takes Friendly Look at the U.S. (Rowland Emett See in stock → Jul 12, 1954 Hollywood 's Pier Angeli Escapes to the Country See in stock → Sep 20, 1954 The World We Live In: The Teeming Rain Forest of the Tropics See in stock → Nov 1, 1954 Dorothy Dandridge: Hollywood 's Fiery Carmen Jones See in stock → Nov 8, 1954 World We Live In: Woods of Home - New Jersey Deer See in stock → Dec 20, 1954 Star-Studded Reaches of Measureless Space () " Vera Cruz ", The Mambo, Gola Makes Field Goals See in stock → 1955 52 issues
Apr 18, 1955 Frigate's Figurehead (America 's Art & Skills See in stock → Aug 1, 1955 The Summit - In Color (Ike, Bulganin, Eden, Faure See in stock → Aug 15, 1955 General MacArthur - An Old Soldier in a New Career See in stock → Sep 12, 1955 Joan Collins Plays Gibson Girl (in "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" See in stock → Oct 24, 1955 DeMille Directs Exodus in " The Ten Commandments " See in stock → Nov 14, 1955 The Convalescing President (Ike after Heart Attack See in stock → Nov 21, 1955 Shining Young Broadway Stars (Photo of Five - including Jayne Mansfield and Susan Strasberg See in stock → Dec 19, 1955 Lavish Holiday Buying (3 kids in Suits of Armor See in stock → 1956 51 issues
Jan 16, 1956 Anita Ekberg on Location for " War and Peace " See in stock → Mar 19, 1956 Sir Winston Churchill & "History of the English Speaking Peoples" (Part 1 See in stock → Apr 16, 1956 Berber Girls Today: A Prehistoric Way of Life See in stock → May 28, 1956 "The King and I" - Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr See in stock → Jul 16, 1956 Gary Cooper, Tony Perkins (" Friendly Persuasion " See in stock → Aug 20, 1956 Audrey Hepburn as Tolstoy Heroine in "War and Peace" See in stock → Nov 26, 1956 Comeback for Ingrid Bergman in " Anastasia " See in stock → Dec 3, 1956 Walter Lord's " Day of Infamy " (USS Arizona Hulk See in stock → 1957 50 issues
Feb 25, 1957 Masked Dancer in New Hebrides (Great Adventures See in stock → Oct 14, 1957 Milwaukee Whoops It Up for The (World) Series See in stock → 1958 50 issues
Jan 6, 1958 Space Pilot To-Be Tests Safety Suit - Scott Crossfield See in stock → Jan 13, 1958 The Russian Revolution: Bloody Sunday in Petrograd See in stock → May 5, 1958 Radiation For Cancer Patient - Fresh Hope for Cancer See in stock → May 12, 1958 Banished Queen's Holiday (Ex-Queen Soraya of Iran See in stock → Jun 9, 1958 Veteran in Nazi Prison Cloak Marches in Paris See in stock → Jun 30, 1958 Adams and Ike: The GOP Fights to Regain Prestige See in stock → Sep 22, 1958 George Burns and Gracie Allen (Gracie Retires See in stock → Oct 13, 1958 Field Marshall Montgomery (start of his memoirs See in stock → 1959 52 issues
Jun 15, 1959 America 's Space Travelers - Able & Baker (monkeys See in stock → Oct 12, 1959 Doctors - The Bedside Manner -A Thing of the Past? See in stock →
1960 51 issues
Jan 25, 1960 American Folklore, Part 3: Father Marquette Conquers Manitou See in stock → Mar 28, 1960 Hubert (Humphrey) and Jack (Kennedy) in Wisconsin See in stock → May 16, 1960 Bridal Procession Leaves the Abbey (Princess Margaret Wedding See in stock → May 23, 1960 The Minuteman on Lexington Green (US National Purpose See in stock → Jul 25, 1960 Demonstration for Jack Kennedy (Democratic Convention), Congo Terror, European Festivals, Betty Comden & Adolph Green See in stock → Aug 22, 1960 U.S. Record Breakers Head for Olympics (Swimmers See in stock → Sep 26, 1960 Sensational Clothes by America's Norell Stir Up Style Storm See in stock → 1961 50 issues
Jan 6, 1961 The Civil War - Part I. Broken Tanker at Sea, Royal Wedding (Belgium), Cabinet Holiday, Eileen Farrell See in stock → Mar 17, 1961 Irish in America: Beauty Sheila Finn, Civil War's End (Part 6), JFK Reading Habits, "Mutiny on the Bounty", Bob Hope & Lucille Ball, Hull House of Chicago See in stock → Apr 21, 1961 Yuri Gagarin Greets Khrushchev - 19 Pages on Space See in stock → Sep 1, 1961 Jackie Kennedy: The First Lady Tells Her Plans for the White House See in stock → Sep 22, 1961 In the Eye of the Storm (Galveston Hurricane See in stock → Nov 24, 1961 Year-Old JFK Jr. Sam Rayburn Obit, Art from Junk Pile, The Twist, Deepest Africa, New Homes, "The Hustler" See in stock → Dec 1, 1961 Explosion in Style: Italian Beauties In At-Home Wear See in stock → Dec 8, 1961 Season to Forget Your Diet: Favorite Holiday Foods See in stock → Dec 15, 1961 Queen of Cathedrals (Chartres - 20 pages in color See in stock → 1962 52 issues
Apr 27, 1962 Man's Journey to the Moon (Testing A Moonsuit See in stock → May 4, 1962 Out of this World (Seattle World's Fair) Great Lakes Tour, Salazar of Portugal, School Bus Driver photo essay See in stock → Jun 22, 1962 Marilyn Monroe: Skinny-Dip You'll Never See On Screen See in stock → Jun 29, 1962 Teddy Kennedy, George Lodge, Eddie McCormack See in stock → Oct 26, 1962 The Human Body - Part I. Wally Schirra's Space Flight, The O'Neills, Madame Nhu of Vietnam See in stock → Nov 2, 1962 Cuba - Week of Decision (Cuban Missile Crisis See in stock → Dec 29, 1962 Extra New York Edition - Newsstand Only - Printed During New York Newspaper Strike, Scarce edition See in stock → 1963 51 issues
Apr 12, 1963 Helen Klaben's Ordeal (49 days lost in Yukon See in stock → Jun 14, 1963 Great Princes of the Church Select a New Pope See in stock → Aug 23, 1963 Frank Sinatra - Sr. and Jr. Britain's Train Robbery, Lincoln's Son Willie, Eisenstaedt in Martha's Vineyard, Barbie Doll's Huge Success (3 pages in color), Washington March See in stock → Sep 13, 1963 Special - A Long Visit with the Soviet People See in stock → 1964 51 issues
May 29, 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy Writes About Her Husband's Mementos See in stock → Sep 25, 1964 America 's Giant Jump Into Space (6 articles - by Arthur C Clarke, Neil Armstrong, others) - fold-out See in stock → 1965 51 issues
Mar 5, 1965 Death of Malcolm X and the Resulting Gang War See in stock → Apr 16, 1965 With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight (Vietnam See in stock → May 7, 1965 John Wayne: After A Bout With Cancer (Classic! See in stock → Aug 27, 1965 Arson & Street War - Most Destructive Riot in US History - Los Angeles Riot See in stock → Sep 24, 1965 Most Remarkable Views of Earth Ever Recorded See in stock → Oct 22, 1965 Mary Martin in Vietnam Vice President Humphrey, Texas Military Academy, Vikings & New World, Joe Don Looney, Patricia Neal's Fight, Dolphins, Italian Beauties See in stock → Dec 10, 1965 Battle of Pros for the College Stars (Football - Tommy Nobis See in stock → 1966 51 issues
Jan 14, 1966 Vietnam: Peace Drive (Ho Chi Minh & Pham Van Dong See in stock → Feb 4, 1966 Greatest Negro Stars (Sammy Davis, Belafonte, Poitier) Team Up See in stock → Jun 10, 1966 Elizabeth Taylor in " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf " See in stock → Jul 22, 1966 Unforgettable Moments of Pregnancy and Birth See in stock → Oct 7, 1966 James Bond's Ian Fleming (Part I of Biography See in stock → Nov 25, 1966 A Matter of Reasonable Doubt: Did Oswald Act Alone? See in stock → 1967 51 issues
Feb 10, 1967 The Nation's Goodbye (Grissom-White-Chaffee Funeral See in stock → Feb 17, 1967 The Other Culture: Worldwide Underground of the Arts See in stock → Jul 21, 1967 Secret Struggle to Free Gus Hertz From Vietcong See in stock → Sep 8, 1967 Frenzied Baseball Pennant Race: Carl Yastrzemski See in stock → Sep 15, 1967 Recollections of Stalin's Daughter - Part I. US Styles With Expo Look, Vietnam Elections, Mark Spitz, New York Slum Kids See in stock → Oct 27, 1967 Vietnam: Inside the Cone of Fire at Con Thien See in stock → Nov 10, 1967 50th Anniversary of the Soviet Union - Shift & Surprise See in stock → Dec 29, 1967 Special: The Wild World - Kenyan Bull Elephant See in stock → 1968 52 issues
Apr 19, 1968 America 's Farewell in Anger and Grief (Coretta Scott King at Funeral of MLK See in stock → Jul 26, 1968 Moscow to New York - Aboard the First Flights (Aeroflot See in stock → Aug 16, 1968 The Nixons and the Agnews (Miami Republican Convention See in stock → Sep 13, 1968 The Beatles - Authorized Bio Part 1, Earthquake on Kakhk, Denny McLain, Ideas in Houses See in stock → Oct 18, 1968 Paul Newman Directs Joanne Woodward in " Rachel, Rachel " See in stock → Dec 20, 1968 Among the Indians by Mark Twain (First printing See in stock → 1969 51 issues
Jul 11, 1969 John Wayne & Dustin Hoffman: A Choice of Heroes See in stock → Dec 26, 1969 Special: The Sixties - Decade of Tumult and Change See in stock →
1970 49 issues
Feb 20, 1970 An Architect Runs Away to the Circus as a Clown See in stock → Jun 5, 1970 Inflation, Recession and a Frantic Bear Market See in stock → Jun 26, 1970 500 Americans Held in Foreign Jails For Smuggling Dope See in stock → Aug 14, 1970 Summer Nomads - Americans on the Move, Poet Brautigan, New York 's Doomed Iron Palaces See in stock → Sep 18, 1970 Top Pop Singers: Tom Jones & Engelbert Humperdinck See in stock → Nov 27, 1970 Khruschev Remembers - Part I. Ethiopian Animals, Doctor & TV Set See in stock → 1971 50 issues
Jan 29, 1971 Bob Hope - On the Road With an American Institution See in stock → Apr 16, 1971 Paul McCartney (with Linda on): The Ex-Beatle Tells His Story (with Linda See in stock → May 28, 1971 A Reverent Rock Opera (Jesus Christ Superstar See in stock → Sep 3, 1971 Special: The Endless Weekend: Americans Outdoors See in stock → Oct 1, 1971 The Brain - Part I. Tombs Prison, Attica Riot, Erma Bombeck, Body Surfers, Attorney William Kunstler See in stock → Dec 3, 1971 Suicide Squad: Pro Football's Most Violent Men See in stock → 1972 49 issues
Jan 14, 1972 Super Bowl Scouting Report (Staubach & Landry See in stock → Jan 21, 1972 A Week's Dead in Vietnam - The One Boy Who Died: SP4 Jerry N. Duffey 1951-1971 See in stock → Feb 11, 1972 Nina: The Singing Baroness in the Hughes Affair See in stock →
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