Description
Original LIFE Magazine — July 23, 1956
LIFE Magazine July 23 1956 features a dramatic historical illustration tied to a U.S. soldier’s candid account of love and war during the Mexican-American War, including a wartime diary presented as a literary and historical discovery.
The cover centers on the Battle of Buena Vista, giving the issue strong appeal for collectors of American military history, the Mexican-American War, historical documents, and mid-century LIFE reporting.
- Cover Subject: Mexican War Diary — Battle of Buena Vista
- Inside This Issue: A U.S. soldier’s firsthand account of love and war; a Mexican War diary presented as a literary find; coverage of the Battle of Buena Vista; plus LIFE’s signature reporting, photography, culture, history, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Mexican-American War collectors, military history enthusiasts, American history readers, historical document collectors, 1950s memorabilia collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves LIFE’s presentation of a nineteenth-century American war through the lens of a rediscovered personal account, making it both a collectible magazine and an unusual piece of historical storytelling from the 1950s.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 17 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: G.O.P. Smiles Widen with Ike’s Decision
Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Anguish Cruelty Compounded: the Mother of a Kidnaped Baby is Tortured by Hoaxers
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Greek Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean
Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Sights and Smells of Moscow: a Visitor’s Report by the Chief of TIME–LIFE Washington Bureau
Pg… 97 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: 5,000 Girl Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a “Primitive Encampment”
Pg… 29 EDITORIALS: The U.S. Spirit: a Moral Creed
Pg… 29 EDITORIALS: The U.S. Spirit: a Will to Risk
Pg… 105 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Everybody Gets in the Acting: Five Amateur Productions of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel
Pg… 68 ARTICLE: “My Confession,” by Samuel E. Chamberlain: the First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Soldier–Artist
Pg… 41 RELIGION: Cutting Into Cryptic Copper: a Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000–Year–Old Dead Sea Scrolls
Pg… 51 FASHION: Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses
Pg… 57 MEDICINE: Artificail Suns for Surgery at St. L?
Pg… 61 ANIMALS: New Deal for a Rare Seal
Pg… 67 SPORTS: A ‘copter Ride in a Motorless Boat
Pg… 93 ART: A Cast Lady Cast Off: Texas Back Rejects Zorach’s Sculpture
Pg… 115 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Fraternity of Valor: Britain Honors Holders of 100–Year–Old Victoria Cross
Pg… 121 PARTY: Fifth and Last in LIFE’S Series on How to Give Children’s Parties Tells Parents to Let 15–Year–Olds Runs Their Own Show
Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 35 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: a Black Friday for Whoopers
Pg… 128 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Cow’s Tongue in a Tap
