Description
Original LIFE Magazine — January 27 1947
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published January 27 1947 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Sankaty Head Lighthouse on Nantucket Island, photographed as an Atlantic Coast light.
Inside This Issue: LIFE features Sankaty Head Lighthouse and the vital role of Atlantic Coast lighthouses in guiding ships and protecting mariners, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from January 27 1947.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Lighthouse enthusiasts, Nantucket and Massachusetts collectors, maritime-history readers, coastal-photography fans, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful birthday, anniversary, or historical gift from 1947.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 21 The Week’s Events: Another Talmadge Takes Over Georgia
Pg… 26 The Week’s Events: Editorial: The State of Sports
Pg… 27 The Week’s Events: 44–Seat Plane Takes Off with Only 13 Passengers
Pg… 28 The Week’s Events: Weather Causes Plane Crashes
Pg… 30 The Week’s Events: Motorist Runs into Electric Shower
Pg… 33 The Week’s Events: Henry Sherrill is Installed as Leader of Episcopalians
Pg… 39 The Week’s Events: Champion Steer Gets a De Luxe Van
Pg… 95 Article: Where Do We Go From Here? By John Dos Passos
Pg… 45 Close–Up: Clark Clifford, by Ernest Havemann
Pg… 54 Photographic Essays: The Atlantic Coast, Photographs for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
Pg… 87 Photographic Essays: Big Music Week
Pg… 65 Ballet: Ballet Triangle
Pg… 69 Movies: “The Overlanders”
Pg… 75 Modern Living: “Suse” Sweaters
Pg… 81 Science: Radiation Sickness
Pg… 7 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Ex–Navy Artist Lampoons Art of War
Pg… 107 Other Departments: LIFE Goes Skiing in Vermont
Pg… 114 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: Mysterious Countess
