Life Magazine in 1949
/Continuing my look at Life Magazines on Internet Archive….
As I looked at the issues from 1949, the advertisements often stood out (for fossil fuels, Pillsbury, Lionel trains, train travel, World Book Encyclopedia) …and also items that were the beginnings that of things that have developed since then: farmers using lady bugs to control insects on crops, the launch of Viking II, Prince Charles (now King) as a baby, shale oil, a pipeline in Saudi Arabia, big oil in west Texas). Some articles referenced back to World War II: art depicting the Germans trying to burn out London and war babies starting first grade. Evident the cold in the first months of 1949 were very damaging in the Midwest and there was heavy snow in the Cascades in May!
The Life pictures are windows into what the publishers (and a lot of other people) thought was newsworthy in 1949.
Life Magazine 1949-01-03 - Farmers use ladybugs to control mealy bugs
Life Magazine 1949-01-11 - Picture of 28-day old Prince Charles
Life Magazine 1949-01-17 - Death through the Midwest from winter storms
Life Magazine 1949-01-23 - Puerto Rico housing, hotel, dam
Life Magazine 1949-01-30 - Truman inaugural, toddler sleeps in stroller afterward
Life Magazine 1949-02-07 - Mr. Churchill on holiday in Provence
Life Magazine 1949-02-14 - West fights worst winter in history
Life Magazine 1949-02-21 - Mauna Loa erupts
Life Magazine 1949-02-28 - Firemen’s paintings recall how the Germans tried to burn London out
Life Magazine 1949-03-07 - Longwood Gardens Conservatory (called DuPont greenhouse in the article)
Life Magazine 1949-03-14 - Natural Bridge…Navajo sheep
Life Magazine 1949-03-21 - How oil builds for tomorrow (interesting that the illustration for the ad looks rather dystopian)
Life Magazine 1949-03-28 - Trans-Arabian Pipeline in Saudi Arabia
Life Magazine 1949-04-04 - Barcelona slum…and a palace
Life Magazine 1949-04-11 - Spring in Mississippi
Life Magazine 1949-04-18 - Weighing less than pie meringue, plastic froth can float on gas
Life Magazine 1949-04-25 - Hazford Rubert LXXXI – the grand old man of Hereford bulls
Life Magazine 1949-05-02 - Texas bluebonnets
Life Magazine 1949-05-09 - Blue Bell play clothes
Life Magazine 1949-05-16 - Volkswagen Factory
Life Magazine 1949-05-23 - African Animals (flamingo and crowned crane)
Life Magazine 1949-05-30 - Snow drifts in May (Cascade Mountains)
Life Magazine 1949-06-06 - Niagara Falls paintings
Life Magazine 1949-06-13 - Go by Train! (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1949-06-20 - Skyline Drive (Shenandoah National Park)
Life Magazine 1949-06-27 - New Harvest adds to big wheat harvest
Life Magazine 1949-07-11 - Grasshopper plague from Illinois to California
Life Magazine 1949-07-18 - Oil is mined in Colorado (oil shale)
Life Magazine 1949-07-25 - Yosemite National Park
Life Magazine 1949-08-01 - Jackie Robinson
Life Magazine 1949-08-08 - Arms for Europe
Life Magazine 1949-08-15 - Polio (uncontrollable disease)
Life Magazine 1949-08-22 - Earthquake in Ecuador – 5,000 dead
Life Magazine 1949-08-29 - Margaret Mitchell dies (after being hit by a car)
Life Magazine 1949-09-05 - Swiss watchmaker
Life Magazine 1949-09-12 - Tito defies the Kremlin
Life Magazine 1949-09-12 - The war babies hit the first grade
Life Magazine 1949-09-26 - Soviet citizen prisoners marched off by the thousands
Life Magazine 1949-10-03 - The Viking’s flight
Life Magazine 1949-10-10 - Robert Oppenheimer
Life Magazine 1949-10-17 - Fall tree lined road in New Hampshire
Life Magazine 1949-10-24 - How to choose your Christmas cards (Grandma Moses)
Life Magazine 1949-10-31 – Petra
Life Magazine 1949-11-07 - World Book Encyclopedia (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1949-11-14 - Holiday cooky (Pillsbury)
Life Magazine 1949-11-21 - Deformed fish reveal radiation effects
Life Magazine 1949-11-28 - Lionel train (advertisement)
Life Magazine 1949-12-05 - West Texas taps a big oil pool
Life Magazine 1949-12-12 - US constructs 60,000 miles of highway
Life Magazine 1949-12-19 - Christmas lights
Life Magazine 1949-12-26 - Armstrongs see the country…. (road trip)
