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...complete with "DRINK COCA COLA" sign at celebration at the foot of the Voortrekker monument in honour of the country's early Dutch settlers.
December 1949
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White
...of 900,000 sitting deep in an appalling yellow wasteland of mountainous refuse dumps, the dusty leftovers of six prosperous decades of gold mining.
Apr.1950
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White
Barnett, L. "The World We Live In: Part X. The Arctic Barrens" (Jun 7, 1954) Life, Vol. 36, No. 23
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The statue in the middle was erected in memory of South African troops who died in WWI
Nov 1946.
Photo: Nat Farbman
Kent, which is scientifically proven not to leave unsightly stains on paper, if you do these weird things with cigarettes.
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Original caption: At 5:40 A.M., the long suffering over, the mother first saw her son. She had no name for him, but a week later she chose Harris Lee.
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W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
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Published: 1959 Author: E. M. Belknap; Publisher: New York; Crown Publishers; Hardback. Fifth printing. 338pp. Filled with over 440 b/w photographs. An almost entirely photographic guide to Milk Glass.
I found this cover in Uncle Dave' s garage... Wondering whatever became of Regina Fisher I found this little blurb via Google... Regina Fisher, a Pittsburgh native, had heard Roy Stryker lecture while at school in New York. When she learned of the project in her hometown, she approached him and was hired. Later, Fisher won fifth prize in the picture story division of Life magazine’s Young Photographer’s Contest for some of her PPL work, and she was featured on the cover of the November 26, 1951 issue. ( www.cmoa.org/info/npress83.asp ) Cover photographed by Roy Stryker.
Work by Regina Fisher: encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/?target=regina+fis...
Representing hope and freedom, a 25 foot, 6,000 pound statue named, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, by world-renowned artist, J. Seward Johnson, is a three-dimensional interpretation of a photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor, Carl Muscarello, kissing a nurse, Edith Shain, in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day.
Edith Shain, the nurse memorialized in Eisenstaedt’s photo, states, "There is so much romance in the statue; it gives such a feeling of hope to all who look at it."
“This statue brings back so many memories of peace, love and happiness. During the moment of the kiss I don’t remember much, it happened so fast and it happened at the perfect time. I didn’t even look at the Sailor who was kissing me,” Shain continued. “I closed my eyes and enjoyed the moment like any woman would have done.”
For the next year, the sculpture will stand next to the USS Midway Museum on the San Diego Bay. It was previously displayed in New York City in 2005 and Sarasota, Florida in 2006.
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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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