Description
Original LIFE Magazine — December 7, 1936
LIFE Magazine December 7 1936 features a dramatic skiing scene on the cover, capturing the energy and visual style of LIFE during its first year as a weekly photojournalism magazine.
Published just weeks after LIFE’s debut issue in November 1936, this early edition is especially appealing to collectors of prewar Americana, skiing history, winter sports, and the earliest years of LIFE Magazine.
- Cover Subject: Skiing
- Inside This Issue: Winter sports and skiing imagery, along with LIFE’s early photojournalism, news coverage, culture, personalities, and period advertising from late 1936.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Skiing and winter-sports collectors, 1930s Americana enthusiasts, early LIFE Magazine collectors, photography-history fans, vintage advertising collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the photography, reporting, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in December 1936, making it an authentic artifact from the magazine’s earliest weeks of publication.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 2 Speaking of Pictures
Pg… 9 Coward on Broadway
Pg… 14 LIFE on the American Newsfront
Pg… 22 London Below
Pg… 23 Hitler
Pg… 26 German Navy
Pg… 28 German Colonies
Pg… 30 Russian Ballet
Pg… 33 Mae West and Napoleon
Pg… 34 Norfolk
Pg… 38 Galli–Curci
Pg… 40 Rachmaninoff
Pg… 42 Bone’s Spain
Pg… 46 Lloyds of London
Pg… 50 Skiing
Pg… 58 The Camera Overseas
Pg… 62 Private Lives
Pg… 64 LIFE’S Pictures (An Index)
Pg… 65 Trick of Paris Season
Pg… 66 Wolf Hunt in Texas
Pg… 70 LIFE Goes to a Party
