Description
LIFE Magazine – November 25, 1946 is LIFE’s landmark 10th Anniversary Issue, celebrating the magazine’s first decade from 1936 to 1946. The cover features Nancy Maloney reading LIFE’s first issue, creating a memorable visual link between the magazine’s beginnings and its place in American culture ten years later.
Inside, LIFE looks back at the people, stories, images, movies, art, controversies, and major events that defined its first decade. Features include The U.S. in 1946, Dreams of 1946, The Movies, Ten Years of American Art, LIFE’s Girls, LIFE’s First Story, wartime art, and Where Are They Now? With 152 pages and extensive period advertising, this anniversary issue functions almost like a visual history of America from the Depression through World War II and into the postwar era.
Inside This Issue
- LIFE’s 10th Anniversary — A retrospective on the magazine’s first decade, 1936–1946
- Nancy Maloney — Cover subject shown reading LIFE’s first issue
- The U.S. in 1946 — A portrait of America at the magazine’s tenth anniversary
- The Balance Sheet — John Chamberlain looks at the state of the nation
- Dreams of 1946 — LIFE examines the hopes and ambitions of postwar America
- The Movies — A decade of American film and Hollywood
- Ten Years of American Art — LIFE surveys major artistic trends of the period
- LIFE’s First Story — A look back at the magazine’s earliest reporting
- Popular Wartime Art — Images and visual culture from the World War II years
- Where Are They Now? — LIFE revisits people and stories from its first decade
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Cartoons Kid Life
Pg… 16 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 29 Tenth Anniversary Issue: The U. S. in 1946
Pg… 49 Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Balance Sheet, by John Chamberlain
Pg… 57 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Dreams of 1946
Pg… 65 Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Movies
Pg… 72 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Ten Years of American Art
Pg… 82 Tenth Anniversary Issue: LIFE’s Girls
Pg… 93 Tenth Anniversary Issue: LIFE’s First Story
Pg… 99 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Popular Wartime Art
Pg… 101 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Controversies
Pg… 107 Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Ten Years
Pg… 125 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Our Times: 1936–1946, by Mark Sullivan
Pg… 140 Tenth Anniversary Issue: Where Are They Now?
