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Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Culture
'50s

LIFE at the 1953 Tour de France: Rare Photos of a Sport …

Mickey Mantle flings his batting helmet in disgust after a lousy at-bat, Yankee Stadium, 1965.
Athletes
'60s

Twilight of the Idol: A Portrait of Mickey Mantle in Decline

Prospective buyer at bee market, Veenendaal, Netherlands, 1956.
Animals
'50s

Buzz Thrill: LIFE Goes to a Bee Market

Frank Sinatra shaving, 1965.
Culture
'60s

Frank Sinatra Has a Shave: A Weirdly Engaging Portrait …

Muhammad Ali rocks Sonny Liston with a right cross, Lewiston, Maine, May 25, 1965.
Athletes
'60s

Ali vs. Liston II: LIFE at the ‘Phantom …

Babe Ruth in the locker room at Yankee Stadium, June 13, 1948, the day his number 3 was retired.
Athletes
'40s

Babe Ruth: Color Photos of a Yankees Legend

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Iowa, 1942
Behind the Picture
'40s

‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: …

Two slum buildings, soon to be razed and replaced by vast housing project, bracket the Palmolive building a few blocks east in Chicago.
Fritz Goro
'50s

City at a Crossroads: Chicago Confronts Urban Blight, 1954

Skateboarding in New York City, 1965
Bill Eppridge
'60s

Hit the Deck: LIFE Goes Skateboarding, 1965

Spectators watch a race at Churchill Downs on Derby day, 1955.
Culture
'50s

LIFE at the Kentucky Derby: Rare Photos From the …

Little Leaguers (including their formidable leader, Dick Williams, center), await missing parts of their uniforms, Manchester, N.H., 1954.
Behind the Picture
'50s

LIFE Behind the Picture: Little Leaguers Demand Their …

Brigitte Bardot, featured, 1958
Actresses
'50s

LIFE With Bardot: Rare and Classic Photos of the …

University of Pittsburgh students cheer wildly from atop the Cathedral of Learning as they look down on Forbes Field, where the Pittsburgh Pirates are playing the Yankees in the 7th game of a Series that would enter baseball lore when Bill Mazeroski smacked a 9th-inning, game-winning home run.
Culture
1947
1970

LIFE’s Best Baseball Pictures

Jackie Robinson, 1950.
Athletes
1949
1956

LIFE With Jackie Robinson: American Icon

Photographer Dennis Stock holds a camera in front of his face, 1955.
Andreas Feininger
1946
1956

Photographer Spotlight: Andreas Feininger

Joe Frazier lunges at Muhammad Ali during their title fight at Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971.
Athletes
'70s

LIFE With Ali and Frazier: A Photographer Recalls the …

Brooklyn Dodger rookies and prospects do calisthenics as part of daily training routine, Vero Beach, Fla., 1948.
Culture
'40s

LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948

British Snail-Watching Society, 1946.
Animals
'40s

LIFE Visits a Snail-Watching Society in (of Course) England

At his bungalow in Palm Springs, Steve McQueen practices his aim before heading out for a shooting session in the desert, 1963.
Actors
'60s

LIFE With Steve McQueen: Photos of the King of Cool in 1963

Number 161 Norman Teleford streamlines himself during a motorcycle race at Daytona Beach, March 1948.
Culture
'40s

LIFE at Daytona: Motorcycle Racing on the Florida Sands, 1948

Sidney Poitier
Actors
'50s

Rare Photos From the Set of ‘Porgy and Bess’

Photo from the streets of Watts, Calif., 1966.
Bill Ray
'60s

The Fire Last Time: LIFE in Watts, 1966

Maltese, 1955.
Animals
1955
1964

LIFE With Dogs: Westminster Champs and Also-Rans, 1950s …

Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Culture
1940
1969

College Basketball: LIFE Shoots Old-School Hoops

Marilyn Monroe and Alfred Eisenstaedt at Monroe's Beverly Hills home, 1953.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
1946
1970

LIFE on Both Sides of the Camera: Eisenstaedt’s …

John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
History
'60s

LIFE in Appalachia: Photos From a ‘Valley of …

Gruesome severed head of a Japanese soldier propped up below gun turret of a disabled Japanese tank.
Behind the Picture
'40s

LIFE Behind the Picture: ‘Skull on a Tank,’ …

Green Bay receiver Carroll Dale hit by the Chiefs' Willie Mitchell, Super Bowl I, 1967.
Culture
'60s

LIFE at the First Super Bowl: Rare Photos

Muhammad Ali in New York City, 1968
Athletes
'60s

Ali in Exile: Rare Photos of the Once and Future Champ …

Londoners sleep in the city's Underground for protection during German bombing raids, 1941.
Hans Wild
'40s

Down, Not Out, in London: LIFE in the Underground, 1940

Training with gas masks in Hawaii, early 1942.
History
'40s

After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Home Front

Buckminster Fuller 1970
Architecture & Design
1941
1970

Bucky Fuller Forever: LIFE Salutes an American Visionary

St. Moritz, 1947
Alfred Eisenstaedt
'40s

LIFE in Postwar St. Moritz: Cold Comfort for High Rollers

Graced by goddesses and stalwart eagles and crowned by a balustrade, Pennsylvania Station presents a serene and seemingly timeless facade to New York's Seventh Avenue, 1963.
Architecture & Design
'60s

Penn Station, 1963: Walker Evans’ Portraits of a …

Dancer Jacques D'Amboise plays with his children near his home in Washington state, 1962.
Culture
1949
1984

Photographer Spotlight: John Dominis

George Lott, 22, wounded in both arms by German mortar fire, suffers as doctors mold a plaster cast to his body, 1944.
Behind the Picture
'40s

LIFE Behind the Picture: George Lott, Casualty of War

Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Dmitri Kessel
'40s

LIFE in the Aleutians: Photos From WWII’s …

Muhammad Ali (left) taunts rival Joe Frazier at Frazier's training camp ahead of their March 1971 heavyweight title bout, "The Fight of the Century."
Culture
1971

Joe Frazier: Remembering a Warrior

Howard Hughes' H-4 Hercules troop transport plane, the "Spruce Goose," Long Beach Harbor, Calif., November 2, 1947.
Culture
'40s

Larger Than Life: Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose

Pittsburgh vs. West Virginia, 1953.
Culture
1936
1968

LIFE on the Gridiron: Old-School College Football Photos

President Harry Truman jubilantly holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In fact, Truman handily beat New York governor Thomas Dewey in the tight 1948 presidential election.
Behind the Picture
'40s

Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’

Ralph Crane—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Culture
'60s

Twiggy: Rare Photos of a Sixties Icon

A Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage, Munich, September 1972.
Co Rentmeester
'70s

Terror at the Olympics: Munich, 1972

Robert Redford grins in his agent's office in New York 1969
Actors
'60s

Robert Redford: Rare Photos, 1969

Gene Kelly in Paris 1960
Actors
'60s

Gene Kelly: Rare Photos of a Song and Dance Legend

Building the Pentagon, 1940s
Architecture & Design
'40s

Colossal: LIFE at the Birth of the Pentagon

Alice Marble, 26, the U.S. women's Number 1 in 1939.
Culture
1937
1972

LIFE Plays Tennis

Gjon Mili—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Gjon Mili
'60s

Eichmann in Israel: Rare Photos of a Nazi War Criminal

Iwo Jima 1945
History
'40s

LIFE in World War II: The Photos We Remember

Mark Kauffman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Culture
'50s

1952 Winter Olympics: American Skiers in Training

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