Life Magazine Back Issues

Gwyneth Paltrow and her mother Blythe Danner. How much like Mom are you? What we learn from our mothers, what our daughters learn from us, by Cokie Roberts. Two page State Farm Insurance ad (Salutes LIFE Heroes) with NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz. Photo of five year-old Hanife Kalisi in a car, coming to Macedonia from Kosovo. Full page Pentax camera ad with troop of Little Badgers (like boy scouts) and their woman troop leader. Hot air balloonist Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones make it back to earth in Breitling Orbiter 3 after circumnavigating the globe non-stop. Crash of Amtrak’s City of New Orleans train in Illinois. Dr. Jack Kevorkian trial. Full page MILK ad with Whoopi Goldberg. Refuges from Kosovo. Young artist Desmond Blair. Mother-daughter article includes Cokie Roberts, Diana Ross, Maryann Downs and Melanie Rosa, Johanna Hoagland and Erika Enslin-Franklin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jane Ginsburg, Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith, Janet Hall and Jamie Grice, Roselyn P. Epps ...

Jason Michael Waldmann Jr., premature baby. Born too soon, the high-tech, high-risk drama of keeping the tiniest babies alive. Sumarno, A family man in Jakarta proves that hope is stronger than any hardship or handicap. Tornado in Texas, home of Macy and Gilbert Velasquez. Pepper Bonjour and her Bassett hound Dharma nursing squirrel babies and kittens. Follow-ups on past stories in Life magazine : Nguyen Thi Tron by November 8, 1968, Flavio da Silva from 1961, Arabella Churchill from 1954, Sarah Marie Switzer from 1999, Conjoined twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel from 1996. Life trivia : George Story appeared as a baby in the first picture in the first issue of Life November 23, 1936 and died on April 4, 2000, only days after it was announced that Life would no longer be published as a monthly. Love in later life : Eve Ferber and Ed Batchelor, Al and Christina Poshusta, Lauvilla and Charlie Cross. as shown in picture good reading copy Life Magazine Born Too Soon , Collector's Editi...

What makes a good dad? – Life’s fatherhood test. Family tales from Doug Flutie, Rob Reiner and others. Anti-violence programs for kids, school violence (It seems like it didn’t work very well since school violence is worse 20 years later). Oyo of Uganda, world’s littlest king, Toro. Nurse without borders, Mary Lightfine in Kosovo. Pilot Madge Rutherford Minton (see cover story of July 19, 1943) – large follow-up article. What kind of people get married at City Hall?, includes Shirely Campbell and Rhawn Williams, Michele Wallace and Varol Metin, Tanya Ensminger and Francisco Alcantara, Margarita Vetoshnikova and Yury Tsatskin, Sarah Brockie and Drew Bishop, Julie Vavasis and Ralph Vega. Underwater photojournalism by David Doubilet. The high school years of Frank Sinatra. Rosy Diaz and her fight for access to water, Johnny Subdivision in Texas. Rather cute two page color Doral cigarettes ad with little black and white dog and a whole row of bright red fire hydrants. Two page State Farm I...

Lisa Massaro, waiting for a heart transplant. Ten thousand miles on ten-inch wings, migrations of the bird Red Knot. Medical disaster team charges into the wraith of Hurricane Floyd. Sibling rivalry at the annual Nantucket – Martha’s Vineyard football game. D-Day plus 55, three veterans again on Omaha Beach. American families : Bichelmeyer in Shawnee, Kansas. Brodoff and Grotsky in Lacey, Washington. Brino family in Rosamond, California. David and Celeste Grant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Armstrong and DeFelice families in Towson, Maryland. Desert Blast, bash of a secret society of pyrotechnists – “If you see someone running, run quickly in the same direction.” as shown in picture good reading copy Life Magazine November 1999 – Transplants Price:  $3.99  

Tornado and forest fire. Weather : 16,367 dead and $45.2 billion in damage, what you can do about it. A day in the life of John Dickson, garbage collector in Seattle. Tragedy in Colebrook, New Hampshire – shooting of Dennis Joos, Scott Phillips, Lester Lord, Vickie Bunnell. Dog day care (great article) : KETCH K-9 Educational Training Center of Hillsborough. Cuba’s great pitcher Orlando Hernandez flees to America. The Carousel and Red Grooms. Manta Rays. Roberto Arno, his deformity, and his incredible spirit in over-coming the handicap. Two Page State Farm Insurance ad with Coach Eddie Robinson. Letters to the Editor include letters from Fred J. Frank of Las Cruces, Amy L. Watt of New Cumberland, West Virginia, Maya Spier of Olympia, Washington. Two page photo from Puerto Rico of Raul Santana knocked out in a riot. Gruesome closeup of the bumper of the truck behind which James Byrd Jr. was dragged to death by racists Lawrence Russell Brewer, Shawn Allen Berry and John William King. Pho...

Were you born that way? Personality, temperament, even life choices, new studies show it’s mostly in your genes (obesity, aggression, optimism, addiction, more), Tess Jouany, Kent Karieva, Paula Sylvester, Roy Norvell Graham, Michael Kay-McGrail, Kid Congo Powers. Worship in the shadow of religious persecution. Tide pools. A Miner Miracle, Kathy Miner, An entrepreneur suits up low-income women for the job market, Bianca Gonzalez, Teleatha Davis, Gaynor Breedon. Moscow’s top brass invade Wakefield, Massachusetts. Legendary Blues musicians and their admirers talk about blues. Photography Evgen Bavcar. A year in the life of an apple orchard. Two page State Farm insurance ad featuring Florence Denomme, poverty fighter, Angel of the Desert, Gila River Indian Reservation. Photo of the Tax Police Department’s Physical Protection Squad in Russia, tax collectors that look like swat team members. Photo of storm surge in the home of Marilyn Lane in Solimar Beach, California. Wonderful four page f...

The issue pertains to the Eisie awards, Eisenstaedt Photography Awards. This is a Special Issue – The Best Magazine photography of the year. Photos include : Storm-whipped people in Hurricane Georges in Florida. President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in a clinch (voted the most significant impact, single frame). Great two page photo of fruit seller and fiddler in Scott, Mississippi taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1936. Chilling photos of folks holding their guns and asserting their right to own a gun, photos by Zed Nelson. Tom Stoddart’s awful and excellent photos of famine in Sudan. Very cute photo of tennis player Anna Kournikova all in red. More photos by others of famine in Sudan. Full page photo of Serge Obolensky who had lost both arms playing with explosives. Great feature on fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville. as shown in picture moisture damage to cover very readable copy Life Magazine March 1997 – Miracle Babies Price:  $3.99   

Pygmy Loris and Orangutan. Miracle babies – endangered species back from the brink of extinction, zoo successes. Painter Andrew Wyeth at 80 – great article. Ice skating on Holland’s frozen canals. Rondie Harris and the story of her intestinal disease and multiple transplants. Rather funny two page photo and text of napkin covered diners eating the Ortolan, a small bird and protected species. Astounding photo of fancy country home high and dry, but completely surrounded by water, New Jerusalem, California. Photo showing the cruelty of 24 school boys chained together in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Wonderful two page photo (no captain) with barber giving a little boy a haircut in a barber chair shaped like a red car – Life is a journey. Full page color Waltham pet care ad with Dr. Angele Thompson and a golden lab. Liz Smith, the queen of kiss and tell. Full page MILK ad with swimmer Amy Van Dyken. Ice skating in Netherlands, computer enhanced photos by Co Rentmeester. Charming full page Baked...

Human skeleton. A fantastic journey through the human body. A 21st century look at how doctors will see us and heal us. How one death-row prisoner found afterlife on the Internet. Michael Jennings of East Providence, Rhode Island, with a brain tumor. Life goes to an enchanted Carnevale in Venice. Photo essay – Eli Reed’s America. as shown in picture good reading copy Life Magazine February 1997 – Human Body Price:  $3.99   

Student Maggie McGregor. New Trier High School, Northfield, Illinois (see also cover of October 16, 1950). Is your kid’s school good enough? Was yours better? School articles include : Carrie Brandon at Park School in Mill Valley, California, Ora Breckenridge of Memphis, Mercedes Smith, Samuel Turner IV, others. Two page color Marlboro cigarettes ad with quite a lovely photo of cowboy riding next to reflecting lake with pine trees, humorously wearing yellow slicker on nice day. Two page State Farm Insurance ad featuring “Life hero” football player Chris Zorich. Full page color Oshkosh clothing ad with little Hayes Kimball. Poignant letter to editor from Madge Rutherford Minton pertaining to the death of her husband Sherman A. Minton. Two page color photo of the shrine of candles, flowers and such created following the disappearance of JFK Jr’s airplane. Photo and short clip about bicyclist Lance Armstrong winning the Tour de France, his first. Cool photo from Lynn, Massachusetts where ...