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The teenagers of 1950s America helped create a completely new youth culture, one shaped by economic prosperity, growing independence, and a rapidly changing postwar society. Captured in a memorable series of photographs by photographer Nina Leen, these young Americans appeared confident, stylish, and eager to embrace the opportunities surrounding them. In June 1954, LIFE magazine […]

Faces frozen in time stare out from fragile glass negatives that survived more than a century in silence. Some appear nervous, others defiant or exhausted, each one carrying a story that was nearly forgotten forever. Taken in the small Northern California town of Marysville during the early 1900s, these haunting mugshots offer an unusually personal […]

New York City, through much of the 20th century, was a place where power operated in the shadows. The Five Families ruled entire neighborhoods, names like Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Frank Costello commanded fear and respect in equal measure, and the city’s underworld hummed along with the quiet efficiency of a criminal […]