Life Magazine in 1948
/Continuing my look at Life Magazines on Internet Archive….
As I looked at the issues from 1948, I noticed more stories about booming business and industry that about the aftermath of World War II. Isreal was in the news…and Truman surprised the prognosticators by winning the election in November. Children were in the news struggling in a polio epidemic or left behind across the world by GI fathers or hungry/homeless in Europe. The Life pictures are windows into what the publishers (and a lot of other people) thought was newsworthy in 1948.
Life Magazine 1948-01-05 - Big whale kill in Faeroe Islands
Life Magazine 1948-01-12 - Coca-Cola advertisement (vending machine)
Life Magazine 1948-01-19 - As the Arabs fight from ambush, the Jews train regular army
Life Magazine 1948-01-26 - Fighting bighorn rams
Life Magazine 1948-02-02 - Palestine Jews crawl through cross fire
Life Magazine 1948-02-09 - The US runs short of oil
Life Magazine 1948-02-16 - Gandhi joins the Hindu immortals
Life Magazine 1948-02-23 - Timberline skiing
Life Magazine 1948-03-01 - Scio, Ohio rebuilding pottery plant
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - Explosions kill Jews as Arabs defy the UN
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - Sacred rivers receive Gandhi’s ashes
Life Magazine 1948-03-08 - The Brando’s – the brother and sister from Omaha
Life Magazine 1948-03-29 - Czechs flee their new red regime
Life Magazine 1948-04-05 - Ozark spring
Life Magazine 1948-04-12 - Cannon percale sheets
Life Magazine 1948-04-19 - Dishwasher advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-04-26 - Meteor Crater in Arizona
Life Magazine 1948-05-03 - Spring walk (garden)
Life Magazine 1948-05-10 - Jews score a preliminary victory
Life Magazine 1948-05-17 - Maine & Pennsylvania
Life Magazine 1948-05-24 - American Airlines advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-05-31 - Isreal is born in travail and hope
Life Magazine 1948-06-07 - Pennsylvania railroad advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-06-14 - Trademarks in nature and gasoline
Life Magazine 1948-06-21 - Hong Kong’s eastern tip – cemetery for World War II dead
Life Magazine 1948-06-28 - Western Europe wears a new look
Life Magazine 1948-07-05 - Oil breaks production records again
Life Magazine 1948-07-12 - Earthquake in Japan
Life Magazine 1948-07-19 - Fogging to kill insects (using helicopters)
Life Magazine 1948-07-26 - Chicago beach
Life Magazine 1948-08-02 - Black and white ranges of Peru
Life Magazine 1948-08-09 - Steel and sunflowers in Ukraine
Life Magazine 1948-08-16 - American abroad
Life Magazine 1948-08-23 - GI children left behind by their fathers from London to Tokyo
Life Magazine 1948-08-30 - Polio epidemic
Life Magazine 1948-09-06 - Madison, Wisconsin
Life Magazine 1948-09-13 - Airborne hospital
Life Magazine 1948-09-20 - Western Electric (telephone) advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-09-27 - Soviet prison camps
Life Magazine 1948-10-04 - Never has such a volume of goods been manufactured by a nation at peace
Life Magazine 1948-10-11 - Ritze crackers with cheese
Life Magazine 1948-10-18 - Yardley advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-10-25 - Earth photographed from rockets
Life Magazine 1948-11-01 - Rainwear
Life Magazine 1948-11-08 - Bees on the wing
Life Magazine 1948-11-15 - Truman wins!
Life Magazine 1948-11-22 - The US harvests a record corn crop
Life Magazine 1948-11-29 - Watchmakers of Switzerland advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-12-06 - Johnson and Johnson first aid advertisement
Life Magazine 1948-12-13 - Pennsylvania railroad holiday homecoming
Life Magazine 1948-12-20 - American Airlines “I’m closer to my grandchildren” ad
Life Magazine 1948-12-27 - Christmas finds many children of Europe in great need of help
