Browse authentic original 1946 LIFE magazines from a year shaped by the transition from World War II to peace, returning servicemen, postwar politics and rapid changes in American life. Explore 1946 LIFE Magazine issues featuring historic LIFE Magazine covers, photojournalism, celebrities, politics, advertising, fashion and everyday America. Every magazine offered by Original LIFE Magazines is an authentic original issue, not a reproduction.

  • LIFE Magazine April 1

    LIFE Magazine – April 1 1946

    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.
    $79.99
  • LIFE Magazine April 15

    LIFE Magazine – April 15 1946

    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.

    $47.99
  • LIFE Magazine April 22

    LIFE Magazine – April 22 1946

    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.

    $39.99
  • LIFE Magazine April 29

    LIFE Magazine – April 29 1946

    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.

    $49.99
  • LIFE Magazine April 8

    LIFE Magazine – April 8 1946

    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.
    $59.99
  • LIFE Magazine August 12

    LIFE Magazine – August 12 1946

    Original August 12, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Loretta Young on the cover, plus Frank Lloyd Wright, Bikini Atoll, Palestine, Jones Beach and more.
    $49.99
  • LIFE Magazine August 19

    LIFE Magazine – August 19 1946

    Original August 19, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Yellowstone’s Old Faithful, Alfred Eisenstaedt photography, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold Laski and more.
    $59.99
  • LIFE Magazine August 26

    LIFE Magazine – August 26 1946

    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.
    $49.99
  • LIFE Magazine August 5

    LIFE Magazine – August 5 1946

    Original August 5, 1946 LIFE Magazine featuring Juvenile Juror, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, H. L. Mencken, New York by Night, Muscle Beach and more.
    $39.99
  • LIFE Magazine December 16

    LIFE Magazine – December 16 1946

    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.
    $79.99
  • LIFE Magazine December 2

    LIFE Magazine – December 2 1946

    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.
    $47.99
  • LIFE Magazine December 23

    LIFE Magazine – December 23 1946

    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.
    $39.99
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