Life Magazine in 1946
/Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1946, I noticed a lot about veterans returning, application of technology from the war applied to civilian purposes, and tragedies of famine in places that World War II ravaged. There were hotel fires and flash floods…slums in cities – photography depicting the peace time news.
(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1946-01-07 - Veterans at College
Life Magazine 1946-01-14 - La Guardia waves farewell to New York’s City Hall
Life Magazine 1946-01-21 - Polio
Life Magazine 1946-01-28 - First family portrait (the Trumans)
Life Magazine 1946-02-04 - Marion Anderson records
Life Magazine 1946-02-11 - Coca Cola and returning veterans
Life Magazine 1946-02-18 - Candy is Dandy – Keep it Handy (Valentines)
Life Magazine 1946-02-25 - Pearl Harbor Committee Report
Life Magazine 1946-03-04 - Modern kitchen
Life Magazine 1946-03-11 - Ritz crackers
Life Magazine 1946-03-18 - Eiffel tower
Life Magazine 1946-03-25 - Industrial destruction left my Russians in Manchuria
Life Magazine 1946-04-01 - Fuller House
Life Magazine 1946-04-08 - Slums of New York
Life Magazine 1946-04-15 - Hyde Park opened to public
Life Magazine 1946-04-22 - Planes in Arizona dessert
Life Magazine 1946-04-29 - Packed with good taste (ad for gum)
Life Magazine 1946-05-06 - Ice cream dixie (cups of ice cream)
Life Magazine 1946-05-13 - China famine
Life Magazine 1946-05-20 - Robin nest at the White House
Life Magazine 1946-05-27 - Test rockets in New Mexico
Life Magazine 1946-06-03 - Mr. and Mrs. Ford in 1898 Ford….the first Ford
Life Magazine 1946-06-10 - Flash floods on Susquehanna and Texas
Life Magazine 1946-06-17 - Chicago hotel fire kills 60 people
Life Magazine 1946-06-24 - Electricity (in kitchen) works for peanuts!
Life Magazine 1946-07-01 - Atomic bomb test in the Marshalls
Life Magazine 1946-07-08 - US shows off flying wing
Life Magazine 1946-07-15 - Farm machines
Life Magazine 1946-07-22 - Empire State Building suicide
Life Magazine 1946-07-29 - US produces second biggest wheat crop in history
Life Magazine 1946-08-05 - New York at night
Life Magazine 1946-08-12 - British uncover hidden weapon in Jewish farm community
Life Magazine 1946-08-19 - Yellowstone
Life Magazine 1946-08-26 - France rebuilds her railroads
Life Magazine 1946-09-02 - Glaciers in Alaska
Life Magazine 1946-09-09 - Archaeology in Arizona
Life Magazine 1946-09-16 - Model airplanes
Life Magazine 1946-09-23 - Coca Cola after school
Life Magazine 1946-09-30 - Graphic depiction of LA traffic
Life Magazine 1946-10-07 - Crowded schools
Life Magazine 1946-10-14 - Nurnberg trial ends
Life Magazine 1946-10-21 - Houston
Life Magazine 1946-10-28 - Shell Agricultural Laboratory
Life Magazine 1946-11-04 - Stranded whale (Long Island)
Life Magazine 1946-11-11 - The road back to Berlin
Life Magazine 1946-11-18 - Land of Yemen
Life Magazine 1946-11-25 - Synthetic rubber plant
Life Magazine 1946-12-02 - Margaret Wise Brown
Life Magazine 1946-12-09 - Nazi brains help US
Life Magazine 1946-12-16 - Worst hotel fire in US (Atlanta GA)
Life Magazine 1946-12-23 - Christmas Rush
Life Magazine 1946-12-30 - Europe’s children
