Life Magazine Back Issues

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 ...

Boy or Girl – what’s the difference? How hormones determine your behavior. Apollo 11 30th anniversary, looking back with the men who walked the moon. America’s most unusual dogs. Hard rockers, holy rollers. Boot camp for bull riders, Brett Leffew. Thomas Jefferson’s children, Sally Hemings. Kalashnikov kids, abandoned Russian children. Bolivia’s Indian miners at Potosi. as shown in picture good readable copy Life Magazine July 1999 – Boy vs. Girl Price:  $3.99   

Artwork of the Wise men greeting Jesus. 2000 years of Christianity, the meaning of the millennium. Fetal surgery, healing babies before birth. Jeff Rotman and 25 years of photos of sharks. Dancing the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, Jan Burkhard. Peru’s Nazca giant drawings. Five women tell us what they learned from near-death experiences, Vesna Vulovic (plane bombed at 33,000′), Rosmarie Dousse (shot by terrorists), Michelle Funk (66 minutes under icy water), Margaret Crotty (shipwrecked), DArtwork of the Wise men greeting Jesus. 2000 years of Christianity, the meaning of the millennium. Fetal surgery, healing babies before birth. Jeff Rotman and 25 years of photos of sharks. Dancing the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, Jan Burkhard. Peru’s Nazca giant drawings. Five women tell us what they learned from near-death experiences, Vesna Vulovic (plane bombed at 33,000′), Rosmarie Dousse (shot by terrorists), Michelle Funk (66 minutes under icy water), Margaret Crotty (shipwrecked), Delizia Cir...

Life remembers 1995 – special issue. Meet the Threetles. The Million man march. A Newt day dawns. The pope comes calling. The O.J. verdict that divided a nation. America’s pride gets a boost from Hanks and Lovell. The shock of Oklahoma City. The welfare maze, Dawn Ingersoll. Includes photo of Princess Diana and princes Will and Harry white water rafting on Colorado’s Roaring Fork River. Oh la la – RuPaul cross-dressing in the most outlandish and gorgeous red vinyl woman’s outfit. Very nice full page color Milk ad with Tony Bennett, plus winning photos from ordinary folks. Two page photo of little Vova Bespalenko, rescued alive after three days in earthquake rubble in Russia, Neftegorsk. Two page photo of Cal Ripken Jr., passed the record mark of 2,130 games set by Lou Gehrig in 1939, baseball. Sad photo of the Deveroux family who lost a family member in the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, big feature article as well. Christo wraps the Reichstag. Neat photo of...

Hundreds of pictures and the stories behind them. Collector’s edition, the Eisie Issue. Two page DiGiorno pizza ad with three boy scouts (cub scouts), Woodchucks. Full page Motrin ad with rowdy rock climbing scene, mountain cliff. Full page Allegra allergy medicine ad with man skiing in flowers. Full page Kellogg’s cereal ad with older man carrying surfboard. And – of course – hundreds of prize winning photos from the year. Among much more, subjects include Kryvorivnya, Lynn Johnson (Paralympics), Norma Claypool, shackled prisoner giving birth, Elizabeth Taylor after brain surgery, Rahamou, land mine victims in Kabul, photos of Larry Towell and much more. a shown in picture good reading copy LIFE Magazine Spring 1998 The Best Magazine Photography of the Year Price:  $3.99