Cover – Paintings of Winston Churchill. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from January 7 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Southern Resort Fashion Rita Daigle. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from January 14 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Cardinal Spellman Close-up. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from January 21 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Jan Clayton in Show Boat. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from January 28 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from February 4 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Lincoln Memorial. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from February 11 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Dorothy McGuire. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from February 18 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Cover – Bird Dog Field Trial. Authentic original LIFE Magazine from February 25 1946. Complete original issue, not a reproduction.

Original LIFE Magazine from March 4, 1946, featuring champion figure skater Gretchen Van Zandt Merrill on the cover. Inside are features on secret Japanese war plans, President Harry S. Truman’s inner circle, postwar Vienna, Palm Beach, St. Bernard monks, early visions of space travel, and the film Open City. A fascinating original snapshot of America and the world just months after World War II.

Original LIFE Magazine from March 11, 1946, featuring Michigan Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg on the cover. Inside are features on senators facing the 1946 elections, George Hormel and SPAM, John Dos Passos in occupied Germany, the Chicago Black Hawks, Flying Tiger Line and Walt Disney’s Make Mine Music. An original photographic record of American politics and culture at the beginning of the postwar era.

Original LIFE Magazine from March 18, 1946, featuring Paris, France and the Eiffel Tower on the cover. Inside are features on postwar Paris, Winston Churchill’s Missouri speech, Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S.–Russia tensions, geisha culture, Golden Gloves boxing, New York’s future airport, Dragonwyck and bobsled racing. An authentic photographic record of the world just months after World War II.

Original LIFE Magazine from March 25, 1946, featuring actress and dancer Lucille Bremer on the cover. Inside are features on Bikini Atoll and atomic bomb testing, Russia in Manchuria, Spruille Braden and Juan Perón, the Ziegfeld Follies, Ray Bolger, George Bellows, the modeling industry and New Orleans Mardi Gras. A fascinating original record of politics, entertainment and the emerging postwar world.

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.

Cover -  Margaret Leighton

Cover - Northwest Vacation

Cover -  Ice Show Donna Atwood, Bobby Specht

Cover -  Ozark Farmer Tom Moss

Cover -  Children's Church

Cover -  Donna Reed

Cover -  Play Dresses Mary Wolfers

Cover -  Chief Justice Vinson

Original July 1, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring the Sailing Season cover, Bikini Atoll atomic-test preparations, Joe Louis and Billy Conn, Georges Bidault, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, the American bald eagle and more.

Original July 8, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Jean Welch in Basque Shirt fashion, plus Howard Hughes’ flying boat, U.S. superplanes, plutonium research, Ethel Merman, DDT and more.

Original July 15, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring the Welded Water Gadgets cover, Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test, Draža Mihailović, the Iron Curtain, Princess Elizabeth and more.

Original July 22, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Long Island Society, Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Russia in 1946, Margaret Truman, Nina Leen photography and more.

Original July 29, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Vivien Leigh on the cover, plus Caesar and Cleopatra, George Bernard Shaw, Ted Williams, Paul Gauguin, Scotland Yard and more.

Original August 5, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Juvenile Juror, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, H. L. Mencken, New York by Night, Muscle Beach and more.

Original August 12, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Loretta Young on the cover, plus Frank Lloyd Wright, Bikini Atoll, Palestine, Jones Beach and more.

Original August 19, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Yellowstone’s Old Faithful, Alfred Eisenstaedt photography, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold Laski and more.

Original August 26, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Fall College Fashion, postwar American life, Germany and France, plus work associated with John Hersey and W. Eugene Smith.

Original LIFE Magazine from September 2, 1946 featuring a Cape Cod “Vacation’s End” cover. Inside are features on Jackie Robinson, Ben Hogan, The Killers, Ernest Hemingway, China’s crisis, Oak Ridge, the U.S. armed forces, Dorothy McGuire and postwar America.

Original LIFE Magazine September 9 1946 featuring Jane Powell, Holiday in Mexico, Molotov, Vishinsky, Boston baseball, Oak Ridge and postwar world events.

Original LIFE Magazine from September 16, 1946 featuring West Point football stars Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard on the cover. Inside are features on Army football, the Nuremberg trials, Studebaker’s first postwar car, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Sister Kenny, Miss America and electric glass.

Original LIFE Magazine from September 23, 1946 featuring a dachshund “Cat’s Playmate” cover photographed by Frank Scherschel. Inside are features on Ted Williams, Princeton University, Romy Hammes, Paul Engle, Mercedes McCambridge and postwar America.

Original LIFE Magazine from September 30, 1946 featuring Jeanne Crain in a bubble-bath cover photograph by Peter Stackpole. Inside are features on Truman firing Henry Wallace, Joe Louis, Arthur Murray, the Iowa Centennial, U.S. intelligence, Brooklyn Dodgers fans and postwar world affairs.

Original October 7, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield on the cover, with Blue Skies, Truman, Taft and Vandenberg, personality tests, postwar China and more.

Original October 14, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Stasia Linder and Fall Fashions, plus the Nuremberg Trials, Eugene O’Neill, Hollywood, the Bank of England and postwar America.

Original October 21, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Gloria Grahame, Violet Bick in It’s a Wonderful Life, plus the 1946 campaign, Windsor Castle, Houston, Bob Hope and postwar America.

Original October 28, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring a nostalgic One-Room School cover, plus Dick and Jane readers, Nuremberg executions, Hollywood censorship, Broadway and postwar America.

Original November 4, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring David Douglas Duncan’s historic Palestine photo essay, plus Queen Elizabeth, Learned Hand, Paris fashion, Seattle houseboats and postwar life.

Original November 11, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring high-school model Shirley Arnow, plus postwar Berlin, atomic tensions, Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr, Big Steel and more.

Original November 18, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring the striking Party Raincoats fashion cover, plus Howard University, Army vs. Notre Dame, A.C. Gilbert, Yemen and postwar America.

Original November 25, 1946 LIFE Magazine celebrating LIFE’s 10th Anniversary, with Nancy Maloney on the cover and a decade of American history, movies, art and memorable photography.

Original December 2, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Lorraine, plus MacArthur in Japan, atomic energy, the Harlem Globetrotters, V-2 rocket photography and more.

Original December 9, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring a P-80 jet pilot, plus the Swiss Alpine rescue, coal strike, Nazi scientists in America, Huey Long, Lou Groza and more.

Original December 16, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Teresa Wright, plus The Best Years of Our Lives, the Winecoff Hotel fire, Oakland General Strike, John L. Lewis and more.

Original December 23, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Fra Angelico’s Life of Christ cover, plus Christmas in New York, the United Nations, China missions, Town & Country and more.

Original December 30, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring opera star Dorothy Kirsten, plus It’s a Wonderful Life, Dwight Eisenhower, Princess Elizabeth, the West Indies and more.