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Having caught pneumonia while filming outdoors in frigid London, 29-year-old Elizabeth Taylor's life was saved at the Dorchester Hotel by an emergency room doctor who happened to be a guest at the hotel. Summoned to Taylor's room late at night, he performed an emergency tracheotomy using his pen knife. The resultant scar is clearly visible on the actress's throat.
Frank A. Leyendecker - Cover of "Life" magazine for 2 February, 1922. Cover by F. A. Leyendecker Scanned by Infrogmation from original in own collection at the time and lightly photoshopped to remove some age blemishes. Previously uploaded by Infrogmation to en:Wikipedia 11:50, 8 February 2004
Life Magazine cover "The Flapper" by Frank Xavier Leyendecker, 2 February, 1922
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external hard drive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
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“The World We Live In” appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine from December 8, 1952, to December 20, 1954. A science series, it comprised 13 chapters published on an average of every eight weeks. Written by Lincoln Barnett, “The World We Live In” spanned a diverse range of topics concerning planet Earth and the universe, and employed the talents of countless artists and photographers. These included, among others, cameramen Alfred Eisenstaedt and Fritz Goro, and artists Rudolph Zallinger and Chesley Bonestell. [Source: Wikipedia]
Milshire Gin advertisement from a mid-1960's era copy of Life Magazine.
"This is no 'copy-cat' gin. New Milshire is charcoal filtered - never too 'ginny'".
This shot, taken by Ralph Morse in May of 1944, shows an American soldier and his English girlfriend blissfully embrace on the lawn in Hyde Park, England. This was just weeks before the D-Day landing.
Colored by Mark Jaxn
On my recent foray to Pennsylvania, I made a few stops driving up in Virginia, but nothing of any significance. I got up early on Sunday morning (I was staying In Hagerstown, Maryland) and drove to the Williams Grove Flea Market, which is just south of Harrisburg, Pa. I should have gotten there at six, but it was more like 7:15 by the time I got there. You can read a nice description of the market here, and this fellow's photographs are definitely better than mine will be (I did take a few photos with my throw-away camera). What's nice about the Williams Grove market is that the upper market is serious, no-nonsense, maybe two or three hundred dealers lined up on open gravel, but then you walk down a hill, and in a sylvan setting, where an amusement park used to be, with the abandoned booths were you throw things at targets and the rotting remains of the old wooden rollercoaster (named, unimaginatively, The Cyclone), there is more flea market.
I hadn't gone far in the upper market, kicking myself for being late, when I found some yard sale guy, I mean not a dealer but just a guy with his family yard sale goods set up on card tables, and he had a little box of photos out. It said "50¢ a piece," which, at this point, is about as much as I want to pay for a snapshot. Anyway, I started looking through the box---there were maybe a hundred photos.
The guy, the owner/dealer, wants to be friendly. Sometimes I'm friendly and sometimes I'm not. I don't why I wasn't all nice and friendly with this guy---I didn't dislike him---I just wanted to look at his photos and move on to the next booth. But I'm in there looking at a photo of a car wreck, and he comes over and says, "That's a photo of a car wreck." Or its a photo of some people grilling hamburgers, and he says, "those are my relatives, grilling hamburgers."
Let's just say I wasn't being tremendously responsive.
Then he says, "Some of those photographs were taken by my grandmother. She was a photographer for the FBI."
I guess I should have chatted him up at that point, so now I feel guilty that I didn't. Naturally, I got a little more excited about his images, but then, they were interesting to begin with. This photo, even with its light leak, is really nice. I don't think that any of the FBI photos are official photos---I think they are the personal photographs that the FBI photographer took for herself. So maybe this photo is something she might have taken on a lunch break or something. It was easy enough to find this Life Magazine cover---November 22, 1943.
Since I don't know the name of this photographer, it's nice to have this photo with the FBI name on the building. Two of the photos seem to have been taken at her workplace---one shows three women with photograph enlargers, and another shows some fellow, perhaps an agent, with an enormous stack of files in front of him. Other photos, perhaps more interesting, show scenes around Washington, and couples doing some mildly kinky things, like lying in bed together, under the covers.
Life Magazine April 28, 1967 featured Expo 67, Montreal's World's Fair, which opened 43 years ago on April 27/67.
The scene is “Somewhere in France” during the first world war, in recognition of the much-needed help France provided America during the American Revolution. Between 1778 and 1782 the French provided supplies, arms and ammunition, uniforms, and, most importantly, troops and naval support to the beleaguered Continental Army. The French navy transported reinforcements, fought off a British fleet, and protected Washington’s forces in Virginia.
French aristocrat and military officer Marquis de Lafayette fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the siege at Yorktown. He served as a major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington. Wounded during the Battle of Brandywine, he still managed to organize a successful retreat.
Back in France, Lafayette helped launch the French Revolution in 1789. He served in the National Assembly and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Life Magazine, April 7, 1941
Volume 10. No, 14
Mimi Berry on the Cover
Mimi Berry was born on February 2, 1924 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, USA. A dancer from the age of 2 and model from the age of 8. While in sixth grade, Mimi became a Conover model, and, during her last year of high school, a Life cover girl. She was also an actress, known for Here Comes the Groom (1951), My Favorite Spy (1951) and Here Comes Trouble (1948). - (Source: IMDB)
Ad for the Kodak Instamatic 104 camera from an issue of Life Magazine, probably in the late 60's.
"Take this camera where the fun is!"
"New Kodak Instamatic Cameras load instantly"
"Complete outfits with camera, Kodacolor-x Film, flashcube and batteries, from less than $20."
Who did NOT own one of these in their past?
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in 1969 which attracted an audience of over 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, which is 43 miles (70 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.. During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors.
Woodstock is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. "Rolling Stone" magazine listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. [Source: Wikipedia]
Attractive colorful graphic illustration for a Texaco Havoline Motor Oil advertisement from the July 27, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Insulation is an old story for sun-bonnets... but a it's a new one for motor oil."
(Name of the graphic illustrator unknown to me, but probably easily identifiable by those experts out there in the interweb.)
This series is made with an unabashed nod to John Seven whose work is a constant source of inspiration.
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“Like a spider climbing up to the tip of a twig, 46-year-old John B. Dearing last week crawled up to the very top of the Empire State Building’s needlelike television tower, pointed a rare 180°-lens camera earthward, and made the spectacular photograph above. Dearing’s camera, which took in everything from horizon to horizon, covered a radius of 50 miles in this picture. One of Dearing’s legs. . . was wrapped around a conically shaped lightning rod 1,472 feet above the street. . .
“Dearing, an RCA engineer who helped supervise the installation of the 222-foot antenna system, made his picture for Anaconda Copper Mining Company, which supplied much of the metal for the television transmission lines. His trip up the spire was hair-raising in more ways than one. Static electricity around the tower sometimes pricks the skin and makes the hair stand on end. To touch one of the pronged dipoles of the antennas in the wrong place would give him a severe burn. A slip would mean death. But Dearing has been up the tower about 300 times and by now he is nonchalant about it. ‘It’s much more dangerous to be a mountain climber,’ he says. Sometimes, when he is up on the spire feeling on top of the world, he rocks himself back and forth, giddily swaying with the tip of the tower like a monkey on a tree branch.” [From the accompanying article]
Author James Michener, a former U.S. Navy officer, was an embedded reporter on aircraft carriers during the Korean War. His book, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” details the experiences of Navy pilots in the Korean War as they undertake a mission to destroy heavily protected bridges in enemy territory. The book was made into a film of the same name in 1954, starring Grace Kelly and William Holden. Here is a clip of the low fuel carrier landing from the film: