Shop authentic original LIFE magazines from the 1940s. Browse issues published from 1940 through 1949 featuring World War II, historic events, celebrities, politics, culture, advertising and iconic LIFE photography. Every magazine offered by Original LIFE Magazines is an authentic original issue, not a reproduction.
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LIFE Magazine – April 15 1946
$47.99Original 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.
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LIFE Magazine – April 29 1946
$49.99Original 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.
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LIFE Magazine – August 12 1946
$49.99Original August 12, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Loretta Young on the cover, plus Frank Lloyd Wright, Bikini Atoll, Palestine, Jones Beach and more.Add to cartQuick View - Add to cartQuick View
LIFE Magazine – August 26 1946
$49.99Original 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.Add to cartQuick View - Add to cartQuick View
LIFE Magazine – August 30 1948
$37.99Original August 30, 1948 LIFE Magazine featuring actress Colleen Townsend on the cover, with coverage of Babe Ruth’s funeral, the North Carolina polio epidemic, Great Salt Lake and postwar world events.Add to cartQuick View - Add to cartQuick View
LIFE Magazine – August 5 1946
$39.99Original August 5, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Juvenile Juror, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, H. L. Mencken, New York by Night, Muscle Beach and more.Add to cartQuick View - Add to cartQuick View
LIFE Magazine – December 16 1946
$79.99Original 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.Add to cartQuick View - Add to cartQuick View
LIFE Magazine – December 2 1946
$47.99Original 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.Add to cartQuick View
