The Kissing Sailor, Take 2
An interesting bit of history: everybody knows the photograph above, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt in Times Square on V-J, or Victory over Japan, Day, August 14, 1945. It was published… Read More»
Tag: Life Magazine
Did Peggy Write This Copy?
An advertisement for Woodbury Facial Soap, from the February 7, 1949, issue of Life magazine, featuring Caroline “Calise” Louise Chauvenet, of Albemarle County. Sample caption: Albemarle County boasts of its… Read More»
The Blue & The Gray
From the January 20, 1961, issue of Life magazine, a feature designed to kick off the centennial commemoration of the American Civil War. More images after the jump.
Touch the Mountains, So That They Smoke
The Shenandoah Valley, from the August 5, 1940, issue of Life magazine. RE THIS POST’S TITLE: Psalm 144:5 (NIV)
Fear of a Brown Planet
On this day in 1958, Richmond Times-Dispatch editor Virginius Dabney published an article in Life magazine explaining, on behalf of Virginia, why the state closed public schools in several communities—including here in Charlottesville—rather… Read More»
The Lovings on Film
The Daily Mail has reprinted several photographs of Richard and Mildred Loving taken for Life magazine by Grey Villet while the couple fought in the courts for recognition of their… Read More»
From Virginia to Russia, with Love
Now showing at the Virginia Historical Society: Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident / January 16–May 30, 2010 On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down… Read More»
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