See how fashion, family life, sports, holiday celebrations, media, and other elements of pop culture have changed through the decades.

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.

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 …

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

The following is adapted from the introductio n to LIFE’s new special issue Sharks: Predators of the Sea, which is available here online and at newsstands: Few words in the American …

A story in the Jan. 6, 1941 issue of LIFE talked about Caniff’s drawings being displayed in New York’s prestigious Julien Levy Gallery. The Mar. 1, 1943 issue had a story on Male Call, the …

The story never ran, but the photos in the LIFE archives paint an intimate portrait of a star on the rise. Carson’s New York years had their own particular flavor.

In 1972 the 7’1″, 275-pound center for the Los Angeles Lakers built a house which matched the proportions of his life—and lifestyle. And his new home, which he called Ursa Major (after one …

As a weekly magazine LIFE covered it all, with a breadth and open-mindedness that looks especially astounding today, when publications and websites tailor their coverage to ever …