Experience LIFE's visual record of the 20th century by exploring the most iconic photographs from one of the most famous private photo collections in the world.

Apr 17, 2026 · Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its June 4, 1945 issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived …

It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings …

The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands and online: …

Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.

From pets to wildlife, explore how our relationship with animals has changed - and remained the same - throughout the 20th Century.

See photographs and read stories about global icons - the actors, athletes, politicians, and community members that make our world come to life.

LIFE photographs -- resembling every war-battered panorama from Verdun to Vietnam -- made in September, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.

With more than ten million original prints, negatives, slides, and transparency shots, see why LIFE's photo archive will always remain timeless.