Life Magazine in 1950
/Continuing my look at Life Magazines on Internet Archive….
As I looked at the issues from 1950, the Korean War was becoming more dramatic as the year progressed. The 75% reduction in pneumonia deaths between 1930 and 1950 was a stunning statistic. Advertisements from Life Savers, Howard Johnsons, American Airlines, General Motors, Christmas cards, Coca Cola and American toys captured my attention. Natural events – frozen redwing blackbirds, lots of snow in the Sierras, dust bowl in Texas, albino deer, Mauna Loa erupting, an owl nest, and Dutch Elm Disease - also were in the news. They were all part of what the publishers thought was newsworthy in 1950!
Life Magazine 1950-01-02 - Acceleration of Science
Life Magazine 1950-01-09 - Einstein
Life Magazine 1950-01-16 - Frozen Redwing blackbirds in Oklahoma
Life Magazine 1950-01-23 - Children on Will Rogers statue
Life Magazine 1950-01-30 - Natural childbirth
Life Magazine 1950-02-06 - A winter battle in snowy Sierra
Life Magazine 1950-02-13 - Pneumonia death toll dropped 75% in 20 years
Life Magazine 1950-02-20 - Disney’s Cinderella
Life Magazine 1950-02-27 - Atomic explosion (cover)
Life Magazine 1950-03-06 - St. Louis Museum shows art of the Mississippi River’s great past
Life Magazine 1950-03-13 - Fireworks in Port-au-Prince for the inauguration of the bicentennial exposition
Life Magazine 1950-03-20 - Familiar house and garden bugs
Life Magazine 1950-03-27 - Peppermint stick life savers (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1950-04-03 - Owl nest
Life Magazine 1950-04-10 - Dust Bowl Look in Texas
Life Magazine 1950-04-17 - Hopper paints the city in stark lonely moments
Life Magazine 1950-04-24 - 3 albino deer in Wisconsin
Life Magazine 1950-05-01 - Coca Cola advertisement
Life Magazine 1950-05-08 - American Airlines advertisement
Life Magazine 1950-05-15 - Edward Steichen (when he was 71) photography
Life Magazine 1950-05-22 - Sand sailing
Life Magazine 1950-05-29 - Olmec stone face
Life Magazine 1950-06-05 - Poison ivy
Life Magazine 1950-06-12 - Spring’s rain splashes away the soil
Life Magazine 1950-06-19 - Mauna Loa splits its seams
Life Magazine 1950-06-26 - Amish school children
Life Magazine 1950-07-03 - Building of the Eiffel Tower
Life Magazine 1950-07-10 - Korea – bracing climate and depressing proverbs
Life Magazine 1950-07-17 - Howard Johnson’s advertisement
Life Magazine 1950-07-24 - Marine muscle heads to Korea
Life Magazine 1950-07-31 - Yanks hit a beach in Korea
Life Magazine 1950-08-07 - Wounded GIs flown from Korean front
Life Magazine 1950-08-14 - Greatest meteor crater? (north of Quebec)
Life Magazine 1950-08-21 - General motors advertisement
Life Magazine 1950-08-28 - Present plants will handle 4 to 1 expansion (military aircraft)
Life Magazine 1950-09-04 - In Korea the supplies stack up and roll on to fighting front
Life Magazine 1950-09-11 - Life savers advertisement
Life Magazine 1950-09-18 - The Korean air war in color
Life Magazine 1950-09-25 - New chemical may halt ravages of Dutch Elm Disease
Life Magazine 1950-10-02 - Small size separates
Life Magazine 1950-10-09 - Historic church burns
Life Magazine 1950-10-16 - US is building new schools but is facing a serious shortage
Life Magazine 1950-10-23 - Photograph to raise funds for a non-profit
Life Magazine 1950-10-30 - October in the Southwest
Life Magazine 1950-11-06 - Churchill Christmas cards from Hallmark
Life Magazine 1950-11-13 - Thanksgiving (insurance advertisement)
Life Magazine 1950-11-20 - Arthur Siegel photographs
Life Magazine 1950-11-27 - Give American toys (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1950-12-04 - Christmas cards and wrapping paper (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1950-12-11 - Eva Peron
Life Magazine 1950-12-18 - Great retreat in Korea
Life Magazine 1950-12-25 - Christmas in Korea
