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In domestic service, the largest source of employment at the time, women had very little control over what they wore. It was driven by whatever the boss prescribed for the role. Factory workers, however, had a little more scope to express themselves. Underneath their aprons or overalls, they might have worn a patterned blouse or colorful stockings, or they might have styled their hair in a particular way. ​The 1920s saw a much more relaxed type of female emerge....

Some of the women show the strong influence of the “hippie” movement—long hair, beads, fringes, and bell-bottoms. Others wear outfits that connect to psychedelia—luminous colors and loud patterns. Some have even fused elements of both—and more—to create their own personal expression. The shoot focused almost exclusively on women, but the few men who can be seen, by contrast, are wearing clothes almost indistinguishable from today. Their hairstyles are a different matter....

But before doing so, he married Eva Braun and then penned his last will and testament. The next day in the afternoon on April 30, 1945, Braun and Hitler entered his living room to end their lives. When Hitler asked his physician to recommend a reliable method of suicide his doctor suggested combining a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head. Later that afternoon the remaining members of the bunker community found Hitler slumped over, and blood spilled over the arm of the couch....

This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the only known photograph of JFK and Monroe together. Monroe is still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden. President Kennedy, whose head is tilted slightly is looking down while listening to Marilyn. His brother, Robert Kennedy, is standing next to the pair looking on. Singer Harry Belafonte is in the background and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr....

It was Kate Giroux’s idea for the city to build a park on the beach. She’d been a playground matron for an elementary school before it was reduced to rubble. Building one playground for everyone would be a faster and cheaper fix until all of the schools could be rebuilt. City officials agreed. By 1934, work had started on the new playground. The project was paid for by President Roosevelt’s Works Project Administration (WPA), an organization set-up to employ local people to build public developments and stimulate the economy....

The main purpose of this photographic unit was to promote the recruitment of pilots specifically for the Navy. Radford, the head of the Navy, believed there was competition for a limited talent pool between the Navy and the Army Air Corps, and that attractive, top-rate photography in the press, posters, and leaflets would help the Navy reach its quota of 30,000 new pilots each year. Edward Steichen, one of the most renowned and well-paid photographers in the world, was asked to assemble a team and run the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit....

Though none of the men were recognizable, the photo was arresting in its stark depiction of the stillness of the death and then shocking when it became clear on second glance that maggots had claimed the body of one of the soldiers faced down on the sand. The photo was taken by LIFE’s photojournalist George Strock. Images that Strock took of dead American GIs were not published because the U....

The tank in the photo is Tiger II number 312, of the 3rd company 501 SS schwere Panzer Abteilung and 82nd Airborne Division troops. Most likely this tank ran out of gas. Most of the time during the Battle of the Bulge, the ever-thirsty King Tigers were either stuck in traffic on the narrow winding roads or desperately looking for American petrol dumps that hadn’t been blown up before they got there....

Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead, the wounded, the homeless, and orphaned. Images of human suffering were etched both on his negatives and his heart. In the photo, the boy stands erect, having done his duty by bringing his dead brother to a cremation ground. Standing at attention was an obvious military influence....

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, Netherlands, having moved there with her family at the age of four and a half when the Nazis gained control over Germany. Born a German national, she lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. By May 1940, the Franks were trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the Franks went into hiding in some concealed rooms behind a bookcase (known as the Annex) in the building where Anne’s father, Otto Frank, worked....

Hadfield, a ship surgeon, was employed by the Orient Steam Navigation Company, both servicing their Orient-Royal Mail Line to Australia and their various Orient Line pleasure cruises to Norway and other destinations. Hadfield was an eager amateur photographer and produced several illustrated books from his travels. One such title is “With an Ocean Liner (Orient Co’s S.S. “Ophir”) through the Fjords of Norway. A Photographic Memento of a Fortnight’s Cruising”, published in several editions by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co....

Austro-Hungarian forces, reinforced by German units, were able to break into the Italian front line and rout the Italian army, which had practically no mobile reserves. The battle was a demonstration of the effectiveness of the use of stormtroopers and the infiltration tactics developed by Hauptmann Willy Rohr. The use of poison gas by the Germans played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army. Initiated with a heavy artillery barrage of high explosives, gas, and smoke, the combined force broke through the Italian Second Army’s lines almost immediately....

The rise of typing classes in US high schools is a captivating chapter in the historical landscape of education, tracing its origins back to an era when manual typewriters and the rhythmic clatter of keys heralded a new age. The introduction of typing instruction can be traced back to the late 19th century when the typewriter emerged as a revolutionary writing tool. Initially seen as a skill relevant only to office work, the practicality and efficiency of typing soon caught the attention of educators....

The allure of Christmas transcends time, but few eras have captured its true essence quite like the enchanting decades of the 1940s and 1950s. In those post-war years, the festive season was steeped in a kind-hearted spirit and simple joys, creating enduring traditions that continue to shape our holiday celebrations today. From the beautifully adorned tinsel trees to the heartfelt exchange of gifts, the nostalgic charm of this era remains an indelible part of our Christmas memories....

The military term “D-Day” refers to the day when a combat operation is to start, and “H-hour” is the exact time the operation commences. This concept permits military strategists to plan for an operation in advance, even when the exact date and time of the action are still unknown. D-Day will, however, be associated with the invasion of Normandy, one of the largest and the most famous amphibious operations in the history of war....

The students used a vivid combination of vintage decor, collegiate pennants, high school diplomas, family portraits, and advertisements to decorate their walls. Why is living on campus so prevalent in the United States, and how do the designs of residence halls reflect American educational and societal ideals? Carla Yanni addresses these questions in Living on Campus, a history of purpose-built structures intended to house students on American campuses. Dormitory architecture, she argues, “provides a lens through which to examine the socially constructed nature of the student”....

At the time, Picasso was in the bathtub and allowed Duncan to photograph him right then and there, leading to a lasting friendship that granted the photographer access into the artist’s personal life. Over the next seventeen years, Duncan took thousands of photographs of the artist, inside his studio-homes, and of his then-unknown canvases. In this photo collection, Picasso, age 70, was living with his second wife named Jacqueline Roque, who was forty years younger and who accompanied him until the day he died....

The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July, and from 25 to 29 July, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian nationalists targeted Jews in the first pogrom on the pretext of their purported responsibility for the NKVD prisoner massacre in Lviv, which left behind thousands of corpses in three Lviv prisons....

Yevgeny Khaldei, the famous Soviet photographer who took this photo, frequently staged or manipulated his photos to (as he defended the practice) enhance and strengthen the “truth” of the visual moment. During one of the German air raids, Khaldei took the reindeer shot, but it wasn’t as dramatic as he assumed, so he later superimposed British Hawker Hurricanes, flown by RAF pilots to relieve Murmansk, and an exploding bomb to form a composite image....

Venice, originally called “Venice of America”, was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. Los Angeles had neglected Venice so long that, by the 1950s, it had become the “Slum by the Sea”. With the exception of new police and fire stations in 1930, the city spent little on improvements after annexation. The city did not pave Trolleyway (Pacific Avenue) until 1954 when county and state funds became available....