Name/Title
MagazineEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0021Scope and Content
Life Magazine, January 14, 1957. One of a series of seven LIFE magazines from a 10 year period from 1947 to 1957.
This issue shows a scene from 'Li'l Abner' Broadway show.
Includes a look at the bicentennial for a Founding Father on the birthday of Alexander Hamilton.
Includes a story with touching photographs of the first gorilla every born in captivity which was doing fine in the Columbus, Ohio zoo.
The back cover is a full page advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes showing that 1957 would 'Make this your LUCKY year'.
LIFE was an American magazine that ran weekly from 1883 to 1972, published initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2002.Collection
Benicia Arsenal Collection
