Life Magazine, Bound Volume, April-June 1946

Summary

First published in 1883 as a general-interest and humor publication, Life magazine became America's first all-photographic weekly news magazine after being purchased and re-envisioned by publisher Henry Luce in 1936. Under Luce, its popularity boomed, and by the 1950s more than 22 million Americans read the publication. This bound volume contains issues from April through June 1946.

First published in 1883 as a general-interest and humor publication, Life magazine became America's first all-photographic weekly news magazine after being purchased and re-envisioned by publisher Henry Luce in 1936. Under Luce, its popularity boomed, and by the 1950s more than 22 million Americans read the publication. This bound volume contains issues from April through June 1946.

Artifact

Magazine (Periodical)

Date Made

01 April 1946 - 24 June 1946

Subject Date

01 April 1946 - 24 June 1946

Collection Title

Serial Collection 

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

97.54.15

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Printing (Process)

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 13.75 in

Width: 10.5 in

Length: 2 in

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