Life Magazine in 1947
/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 1947, I noticed the aftereffects of World War II – helping veterans, technology transitioning to civilian use (DDT, lipstick, atomic energy), hunger/wreckage/suffering in Europe and Japan, Farmers and factory worker were better off than they were before the war.
(Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1947-01-06, Niblets Mexicorn advertisement
Life Magazine 1947-01-13, Paraplegic’s home made to order
Life Magazine 1947-01-20, Farm lottery for veterans
Life Magazine 1947-01-27, 44 seat airliner takes off with 13 passengers
Life Magazine 1947-02-03, New factory a model for civilian production
Life Magazine 1947-02-10, Mexican’s carrying loads to market
Life Magazine 1947-02-17, Ice fog at Ladd Field near Fairbanks
Life Magazine 1947-02-24, Bridge in Washington collapses in gasoline fire
Life Magazine 1947-03-03, Trying to save Whooping cranes
Life Magazine 1947-03-10, Cathedral of Caen and surrounding rubble
Life Magazine 1947-03-17, Cars stranded at crossroads by Canadian snowstorm
Life Magazine 1947-03-24, Beyond the arctic circle
Life Magazine 1947-03-31, Moon over Manhattan
Life Magazine 1947-04-07, Harvest art
Life Magazine 1947-04-14, Triple eruption in Iceland
Life Magazine 1947-04-21, Henry Ford dies
Life Magazine 1947-04-28, Texas City blows up and burns (town on Galveston Bay)
Life Magazine 1947-05-05, Normandie scrapped
Life Magazine 1947-05-12, Dorothy Shaver, President of Lord & Tayler
Life Magazine 1947-05-19, Diesel locomotives
Life Magazine 1947-05-26, Patched pants
Life Magazine 1947-06-02, Truman Capote at 22
Life Magazine 1947-06-09, Mount Athabasca
Life Magazine 1947-06-16, Santa Fe System Lines in the west
Life Magazine 1947-06-23, Adams House
Life Magazine 1947-06-30, The Maya
Life Magazine 1947-07-07, Nebraska’s soil and sons
Life Magazine 1947-07-14, Painter’s summer in New England
Life Magazine 1947-07-21, German worker making tires….gaunt from lack of food
Life Magazine 1947-07-28, Elizabet and Philip growing up
Life Magazine 1947-08-04, Penicillin (Rexall drugs advertisement)
Life Magazine 1947-08-11, Bikini atomic bomb test
Life Magazine 1947-08-18, Harvesting machine patterns in Washington wheat fields
Life Magazine 1947-08-25, German widow grows food in rubble of her house
Life Magazine 1947-09-01, Keloids of a Hiroshima survivor
Life Magazine 1947-09-08, Havasu Falls of the Grand Canyon
Life Magazine 1947-09-15, Hybrid corn
Life Magazine 1947-09-22, Thoreau’s Walden
Life Magazine 1947-09-29, Hurricane that impact Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana
Life Magazine 1947-10-06, Moscow celebrates 800th birthday
Life Magazine 1947-10-13, Bongo the Bear from Disney
Life Magazine 1947-10-20, Lipstick – a big US industry
Life Magazine 1947-10-27, DDT used to fight cholera outbreak in Cairo
Life Magazine 1947-11-03, Bar Harbor burns
Life Magazine 1947-11-10, In spite of inflation, more Americans are better off than in ’39 (particularly farmers and factory workers)
Life Magazine 1947-11-17, Hughes’ flying boat (Spruce Goose)
Life Magazine 1947-11-24, Chinese flood land to stop Communist advance
Life Magazine 1947-12-01, Princess Elizabeth and Philip wedding
Life Magazine 1947-12-08, Biggest telescope (at the time) atop Palomar Mountain
Life Magazine 1947-12-15, Gadgets – post war inventions
Life Magazine 1947-12-22, Christmas Art
Life Magazine 1947-12-29, Eistein and Oppenheimer
