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Margaret Bourke-White, 27, stands on the scaffolding enclosing the under-construction Chrysler Building in New York, 1931. history

“Great Lady With a Camera”: Margaret Bourke-White, American Original

LIFE magazine pictures made after an atomic weapon test, Nevada, 1955. history

Mannequin Mayhem: Aftermath of an A-Bomb Test in Nevada

Troops are carted by tractor to the movies from an isolated camp in Massacre Vally, Attu Island, Aleutian Campaign, Alaska, 1943. history

World War II’s Forgotten Front: LIFE in the Aleutians

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Last Days of High School: Mansfield, Ohio, 1941

Building the Pentagon, 1940s history

Talk About Office Space: LIFE at the Pentagon’s Early Days

Underwater ballet, 1945. history

Water: Essential, Beautiful, Mesmerizing, Fun

An American soldier holds a wounded Japanese boy in an airplane on Saipan as they await a flight to the nearest field hospital in 1944. history

Photographer Spotlight: Peter Stackpole

Mardi Gras float, New Orleans, 1938. history

Mardi Gras: Rare Vintage Photos From America’s Most Famous Party

Malcolm X gives a speech at a Nation of Islam rally, Washington, D.C., 1961. history

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam: Eve Arnold’s Quietly Powerful Images

American puppeteer Bil Baird in India in 1962. history

Audiences on a String: American Puppet Masters in India,1962

Machine gunner in helicopter on patrol over the Mekong Delta in 1967. history

1967: Pictures From a Pivotal Year

A woman at an Internal Revenue information center in New York in 1944. history

Unhappy Returns: Portraits of Miserable, Anxious Taxpayers

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