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Children watch the story of "Saint George and the Dragon" at an outdoor puppet theater in Paris, 1963. history

LIFE Behind the Picture: Children at a Puppet Show, Paris, 1963

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‘The Most Beautiful Suicide’: A Violent Death, an Immortal Photo

Mercury 7 astronauts, Langley Air Force Base history

Magnificent Seven: LIFE With America’s Mercury Astronauts

Albert Einstein's office - just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it - taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955. history

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story

Severed head of a Japanese soldier, propped up on a disabled tank, Guadalcanal, 1942. history

Portrait From the Brutal Pacific: ‘Skull on a Tank,’ Guadalcanal, 1942

On the coral beach of Eniwetok's Engebi Island, a Marine drags a dead comrade out of the surf. history

Battle of Eniwetok: Rare and Classic Photos From the Pacific in WWII

Apollo 1 astronauts Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom, 1967. history

The Apollo 1 Launchpad Fire: Remembering Grissom, White and Chaffee

Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, 1950. history

David Douglas Duncan and the Korean War: To Hell and Back

Colorado farming family during 1954 Dust Bowl. history

‘Plague Upon the Land’: Scenes From an American Dust Bowl, 1954

Striptease Superstar: Rare and Classic Photos of Gypsy Rose Lee history

Striptease Superstar: Rare and Classic Photos of Gypsy Rose Lee

Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, 1964. history

War on Poverty: Portraits From an Appalachian Battleground, 1964

Street Gangs history

Gang of New York: LIFE With the Reapers, 1972

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