Original LIFE Magazine from April 1, 1946 featuring St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Red Barrett on the cover. Inside are features on the Cardinals, Groucho Marx, the Holy Land, Operation Frostbite, Hermann Göring, postwar Germany, Paris fashion and the Geiger counter.

Original LIFE Magazine from April 8, 1946 featuring Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with clown Lou Jacobs on the cover. Inside are features on Harry Truman, Walter Reuther and the UAW, Russia and the United Nations, Evelyn Waugh, juvenile delinquency, Roger Tory Peterson and postwar America.

Original LIFE Magazine from April 15, 1946 featuring actress Mona Freeman wearing a Lilly Daché spring bonnet. Inside are features on the U.S. housing shortage, atomic-age America, labor unrest, cancer, The Green Years, rare manuscripts, FDR’s Hudson home and postwar Berlin.

Original LIFE Magazine from April 22, 1946 featuring a Denver East High School student on the cover. Inside are features on American high-school life, David Burpee, Barbara Hale, The Virginian, the postwar U.S. Army, Greek elections, religion, baseball and ice anesthesia.

Original LIFE Magazine from April 29, 1946 featuring Peiping, China, now Beijing, in a Dmitri Kessel photographic essay. Inside are features on the Iron Curtain, Japanese women voting, Harry Truman, Pearl Bailey, Manolete, The Postman Always Rings Twice, radar aviation and postwar fashion.