|
Condition : EXC,
VG, G, F, P - See Condition
page for details. We update our site daily, so all
issues listed should be available.
To search this page, use the "Edit - Find"
feature on your browser. To search the site, use our
handy search feature.
1990 - 2000
LIFE Cover Portfolio| Order
FAQ | Shopping
Cart | Home & Search
Life Magazine
January 1995 : Cover - Jackie Kennedy, 1929-1994.
Collector's Edition : Life
remembers 1994, the year in pictures. Los Angeles
earthquake, two page photo of the Santa Monica Freeway,
California. Richard M. Nixon. Winter Olympics, Nancy
Kerrigan and Tony Harding, ice skaters. Gay rights -
photo of the mile long rainbow unity flag. Deaf Heather
Whitestone is the new Miss America. President Mandela.
World Cup. Charles & Princess Diana, a couple candid
photos. U.S. in Haiti. Woodstock, the sequel, great
two page muddy photo. War in Rwanda. Jessica Tandy.
Burt Lancaster. Runner Wilma Ruldolph. Full page color
Golf photo of Tip O'Neill. Baseball strike. Kids who
kill. Chemist Linus Pauling. Actress Melina Mercouri
- nice two page color photo. Boxer George Foreman. Actor
John Candy. Power rangers.
VG - $35 
G - $25
Life Magazine February
1995 : Cover - Pinching an inch of fat. 28 questions
about fat, plus all of the answers. What does the obesity
gene really mean? Why do we always gain back the weight
we lose? Why are the last 10 pounds so hard to lose?
The war orphan who found a home, Arthur Da silva Santos
and Rwandan Angelo (see also LIFE April 1997). Tony
Bennett is back on top with an audience. Rural midwife
Shay Huffman of West Virginia. Winter fishing off Bar
Harbor, Maine. Bud Wiley on the job painting the San
Francisco Golden Gate bridge, another job climbers would
like. Article about court reporter (typing shorthand).
Great four page foldout montage photo of Vanessa Williams
and some of the many costumes and rolls she has during
a single week on Broadway. Nice three page photo of
the Taj Mahal. Crazy photo of Pete Schweers of Florida
swimming in a storm to rescue his catamaran sailboat.
The art of the embrace, hugging.
G - $13
 Life
Magazine March 1995 : Cover - Rose Kennedy, 1890-1995.
Memories of an Era. Michelle Pfeiffer wears the Hope
Diamond and other legendary jewels. Full page color
Star Trek ad for the starship Enterprise model. Photo
essay of the Kobe, Japan earthquake. American medical
team performs marathon open heart surgery and saves
the lives of 25 dying children in one week in Guatemala,
Tony Rossi, Robert Michler, Maryanne Kichuk, Leo Lopez.
. Nancy Ellison's photos of the American Ballet Theatre's
dancers. Photos of Lead prosectutor Marcia Clark, O.J.
Simpson trial. Photo of a beautiful ice castle in Harbin,
China, lit with colored lights. A new record - the widest
wedding gown, Maria Lembo, Angelo Russo, designer Gianni
Molaro. Way cool full page color photo of men working
on the cables of the Pont de Normandie bridge, the men
were spelunkers, climbers will like this photo! Nice
art photo of Veronica Lynn, Paloma Herrera, others,
dancers. Neat full page color Bacardi rum ad with windsurfers
and snow covered mountain.
VG - $23
Life Magazine April
1995 : Cover - Baby. Knowing your medical family
tree can save your life. Striking two page photo of
former Hutu soldiers enrolled in Gako camp in Rwanda
for harmonization training. Great two page underwater
photo of a swimming elephant. Lovely art photo of diver
Greg Louganis, AIDS. Neat two page Absolut vodka ad
- Absolut Magnetism. Summer travel special - places
of the year, 1995. The ongoing accomplishments of Lady
Bird Johnson. Journeys - acts of faith. Album of albinos,
white animals, leucism. The look his best in court,
O.J. Simpson has to play by the rules, football. Catholicism
and Acts of Faith, includes four page fold-out photo
of terminally ill persons at the Basilica of the Rosary.
Florida pilot skywriter Jim Butler. The Power Plant,
World Championship Wrestling's professional school.
Grayton Beach, Florida - the best beach in the country.
Neat full page color Benson & Hedges cigarettes
ad with people on top of the Statue of Liberty.
EXC - $35
G - $13
Life Magazine May 1995
: Cover - Lion cubs. Wild animal babies, how they learn,
how they play, how they survive. Full page color Toyota
Previa van ad with elegant scene in gold. Cool two page
color photo of tuna fishermen of Bonagia, Sicily. Absolutely
awesome four page fold-out black and white photo of
the New York Yankees 1922, with Babe Ruth, 28 men clearly
shown in uniform. Norman Vaughn returns to Antarctica
at age 89 to climb the mountain named for him by Admiral
Byrd. The very troubled Damm family ten years after
the first article in LIFE, Dean and Linda Damm and 4
children. What can be done about unfit parents?Two page
color Marlboro cigarettes ad with cowboy carrying calf
on his horse in the rain. Little photo of 84-year-old
Vishnu Maya "Aama" riding on a motorcycle
with Broughton Coburn (I beleive). A stroll through
a topiary park in Ohio. Photos by a New York Cab Driver,
David Bradford. Sunken city in Italy, Fabbriche di Careggine.
Follow-up photos of Mary Ann Vecchio (Kent State shootings),
Ted Landsmark (civil rights), Ed Whitfield (campus riots),
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (napalm burns). Great full page color
Bacardi rum ad with Dalmatian dogs. Very cute photo
of dog with his head stuck through cat door, Mocha,
Jackie Kniss, Indian Hills, Colorado.
G - $18
Life Magazine June
1995 : Cover - Justin and Sydney Simpson at Nicole
Brown Simpson's gravesite. The Simpson Children, one
year later. Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood heat up
the set of The Bridges of Madison County. 1995 Dream
house, architect Dennis Wedlick. Last year's Dream house
as built by Becky and Dean Tharp in Marine-on-St. Croix,
Minnesota. Life goes to graduation day at the Western
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, includes Michelle
Noschese, Jennifer DeFazio, Connie Stepien. Brett Butler
plays Grace Kelly. Full page color Maytag ad featuring
Mrs. Rae Lindsay of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. A
short feature on the Oklahoma City bombing, the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building, includes Baylee Almon, Seth
Heinzig, Hannah Heinzig, Ruth Heald and her children.
Neat photo of Chelsea Chilton in Jessore, Bangladesh.
A chilling page foretelling the coming of the Taliban
in Afghanistan. Neat photo of swimmer Steven Dewick
underwater. Nice photo of David Smith helping little
Cristella Joseph in Haiti. Follow-up piece on cancer
survivor Damond Herseth (see LIFE December 1980). Very
attractive full page color Milk ad with Joan Lunden.
Four page color ad for FrameWorks building systems.
Life remembers Vietnam, includes Daniel and Philip Berrigan,
Anthony Reese, William L. Reese and others. The photographs
of Rafael Minkkinen. Charming small photo of triplets
Audrey, Julia and Madeleine Bialke. And a charming drooling
photo of Sabrine Hakim.
EXC - $35
G - $13
Back to top of this
Vintage Life magazines for
Sale page.
Life Magazine July
1995 : Cover - Child. How can we keep our children
safe? Sexual abuse, abduction, television, accidents,
neglect, violence, drugs, vulgarity, alienation, Krystal
Ray, Mson Garvin, Brian and Joanne of Seattle . The
new Russia is still haunted by the old Russia, includes
photo of elite tank division training for chemical and
atomic warfare. John Evans looses an arm and a hand,
has his left hand transferred onto his right arm with
success, gifted surgeon Richard Brown. Who was Pocahontas?
Filly Weekend in Seattle, sired by Seattle Slew. Portrait
: Michael Jackson and his bride. Life goes to the London
Zoo's friendly Spider Programme. Full page color MILK
ad with Kristi Yamaguchi, ice skater. Photograph of
superman Christopher Reeve with his son Matthew prior
to the horse accident. Chilling two page photo from
Kikwit Hospital Ward 3, home to Ebola patient zero,
and now many others. Awesome four page foldout photo
of Mont-Saint-Michel, looks like a fantastic place to
visit. Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson. A seminar
for arachnophobes. The photos of Wallace Goold Levison
and George Bradford Brainerd. Half page photo of little
Theodore Bakewell sitting between two bronze statues.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine August
1995 : Cover - Jackie and JFK. Exclusive : Personal
photographs never before published of Jack and Jackie
in Love, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, among
other surprising details - Jackie suffered a miscarriage
and had a child that died two days after his birth.
Treasured South Pacific islands of Palau, includes flooded
limestone caves, scuba diving. A guided tour of the
mile around the White House, includes photos of Carl
Lundin, Laligam Sekhar, Arthur Aaron, Eddie Derendorf,
Eric Holder, Stephanie Friley, McLane Layton, Ernest
Richarson, Val Ford, Tyra Bell, more. Kim Torbitt, paralyzed
at 18, meets Mymu, a capuchin monkey. Portrait : Myrlie
Evers-Williams takes the helm of a struggling NAACP.
LIFE goes to a moondance, Full Moon Rave, Narnia. Very
cool silhouette photo of a bungee jumper in New Zealand,
A. J. Hackett. Pretty photo of swimming babied at the
Watersafe Swim School, Seal Beach, Lisa Colbourn. Awful
full page photo of a bicycle crash scene, set up with
crash test dummy. Full page color movie poster ad for
Beyond Rangoon with Patricia Arquette. Myrlie Evers-Williams,
the widow of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, is now head of NAACP. Neat full page color Benson
& Hedges cigarettes ad with people sitting on the
roof of a speeding train. The moonlit photos of Karekin
Goekjian. Cute photos of Dr. Armand Brodeur with his
grandson Christian, Parrot eating with Phillip Bauer,
Police officer addressing dog in the driver's seat.
VG - $23
G - $13
Life Magazine September
1995 : Cover - Woman sleeping. New science reveals
what dreams can do for you. Everglades, our most endangered
National Park. Rock and Roll comes out of the closet.
Predicting the frail future of an alligator hole. Newly
discovered ancient grave in Sicily. Portrait : Cap Ripken.
This Texas rancher still employs real horsepower to
round up his herd, Buster Welch and the Double Mountain
River Ranch. Gil C. Alicea from the South Bronx writes
a book about his violent youth there, The Air Down Here
: True Tales from a South Bronx boyhood. Arthur and
Franz Lidz go to Hollywood to watch the filming of Unstrung
Heroes.
EXC - $35
Life Magazine October
1995 : Cover - Frank Sinatra as a young man.
Sinatra at eighty, intimate pictures of a life. Two
page color General Motors ad featuring the Nature Conservancy,
John Sawhill, and buffalo. Neat two page color AT&T
ad, Building Bridges part 3, with woman chef and four
Chinese (?) men. Thursday Night Fever at Parrish's General
Store in Bahama, North Carolina, includes Katherine
and Sidney Slaughter, Nathan Ponder, Mary Sue Parrish,
Junior Parrish, others. Neat two page "American
Promise" documentary ad with very colorful carousel
horse. Two page photo of Christopher Nadareski and Peregrine
falcon. The television drama ER. The sad story of Reg
and Maggie Green and the murder of their 7-year-old
son Nicholas while on vacation in Italy, organ donation,
organ donors. Prison chain gangs are back. Tribute to
the famous photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt on his death
at age 96. Life goes to the TV series ER. Big feature
article on a New Birth of Freedom, American democracy.
F (Generally G, but
a bit rough at spine) - $10
Life Magazine November
1995 : Cover - Gulf War veteran Paul Hanson and
son Jayce. The tiny victims of Desert Storm, has our
country abandoned them? - special investigation. The
Iron Dragon train takes passengers through the African
veldt and back into another time. Close-up : Jimmy Carter.
60 years of fads in fashion. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
Life goes to the Pennsic War, organized by the Society
for Creative Anachronism.
Out of Stock - 
Life Magazine December
1995 : Cover - Angels. On the trail of angels,
search for meaning and comfort in the spiritual world.
Nice two page color Marlboro cigarettes ad with Merry
Christmas theme and riders trotting through snow with
a christmas tree, alpen glow in background. "Sons
of Gestapo" train wreck crime near Hyder, Arizona.
Amazing two page color photo of the birth of a beluga
whale, Qila. Lloyd Dupuy goes flying on an American
flag, Metairie, Louisiana. E.R. for kids, Children's
Hospital in Philadelphia, 72 hours in the Pediatric
Emergency Room, includes Britanny Coleman, Raheem Forsythe,
Sean Latshaw, Shane Webster, Olivia Penque, Kendall
Hauth. Mutant mice, including the absolutely grossest
two page photo you've ever seen of a rodent - this article
is about medical research. Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball
player. Portrait : Oprah. Life goes on the Million Man
March, civil rights demonstration. Photographer Alex
Webb captures Florida. Neat full page color photo of
many referees on a St. Louis ice rink during a National
Hockey League clinic.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine January
1996 : Cover - The Year
in pictures 1995 : Life remembers 1995 - special
issue. Meet the Threetles. The Million man march. A
Newt day dawns. The pope comes calling. The O.J. verdict
that divided a nation. America's pride gets a boost
from Hanks and Lovell. The shock of Oklahoma City. Cal
Ripken. The welfare maze, Dawn Ingersoll. Includes photo
of Princess Diana and princes Will and Harry white water
rafting on Colorado's Roaring Fork River. Oh la la -
RuPaul cross-dressing in the most outlandish and gorgeous
red vinyl woman's outfit. Very nice full page color
Milk ad with Tony Bennett, plus winning photos from
ordinary folks. Two page photo of little Vova Bespalenko,
rescued alive after three days in earthquake rubble
in Russia, Neftegorsk. Two page photo of Cal Ripken
Jr. passed the record mark of 2,130 games set by Lou
Gehrig in 1939. Sad photo of the Deveroux family who
lost a family member in the bombed Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building in Oklahoma City, big feature article
as well. . Christo wraps the Beichstag. Neat photo of
a Ventura, California man nearly immersed in flood waters.
Maryanne Phillips and the others who were shot during
a subway incident on December 7, 1993 - Colin Ferguson
criminal. Scott O'Grady and Heidi Lowery are honored.
The very, very generous Oseola McCarty. Atrocities in
Sarajevo. More on the orphan Angelo, Arthur Da Silva
Santos.
VG - $35
G - $25
 Life
Magazine February 1996 : Cover - Astronaut Christa
McAuliffe. Two page color Chevrolet Astro ad with maroon
ad and facing page photo of very muddy young soccer
players. Two page color travel ad for Texas featuring
Roderick Blake, the Santa Elena canyon in Big Bend,
bluebonnets, and more. Page and a half photo of the
very pleased looking Esad Pitic and Senada Karcic at
their marriage in Bosnia-Herzegovina, guns in evidence.
Charming two page photo of little boys in sumo garb
trying to move a real sumo wrestler. Great color photo
of the Talent, Oregon fire department posing in front
of a burning house. Too funny, a leisure suit convention
in Iowa, includes John Mozena, M.G. Trickey and others.
Ten years after our worst space disaster, family and
friends remember the lost heroes of the shuttle Challenger.
Our greatest sports pictures. Master of Jazz - includes
fantastic four page fold-out photo (named) with MANY
jazz artists. Descendants of the illustrious and the
notorious, includes Zapata, Stalin, Franklin, Zeppelin,
Gandhi, Columbus, Jefferson. A dangerous peace is established
in Bosnia, Shirley Gaulden, Martin Begosh, Tim Lamb,
others. Portrait : Bob Dole. Great full page color photo
of Kevin Newton doing a karate stunt breaking blocks.
EXC - $42
VG - $30
G - $20
Life Magazine March
1996 : Cover - Free Willy. The happiest killer
whale in the world, going to Heimay, Iceland. This little
girl weighed 20 ounces at birth - a stranger's promise
helped save her life, Natalie Abrams. Hooray for Hollywood,
a photographic salute, includes huge gathering of MGM
stars. . Life in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion,
looks pretty horrible - they must be real tough guys.
Portrait : Mayor Rudy Giuliani, small piece. Great set
of photos of Larry Brehne and Buddy Goldsmith at age
1, 21, 41, and 61. GORGEOUS two page photo of penguins
on blue ice at the South Sandwich Islands, photo by
Cherry Alexander. Gret photos / portraits by Gregory
Heisler. 50 years ago Helen Candaele St. Aubin (with
photo) is the "Ted Williams of women's baseball."
Fun full page Bacardi Rum ad with Dalmatian dogs in
Tropical shirts.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
G - $13
Life Magazine April
1996 : Cover - Conjoined twins, Abigail and Brittany
Hensel, one body and two souls - a big feature story.
Dancer Paloma. Archaeology goes underwater to raise
Alexandria. Looking for America - Virgin, Utah with
photographer Eugene Richards, includes Cade Stout, Dallen
Spendlove, Derek Spendlove, and the rest of the family.
Life goes to an all-star shoot-out at the Golden Globes.
Actor Nathan Lane. Japanese artists and artisans preserving
ancient culture. Neat two page Absolut Vodka ad - Absolut
Magnetism. Startling page and a half photo of many children,
each with numbered sign, the lost children of Rwanda,
refugees. Very neat photo of Don Lopez trying to rescue
Marglyn Paseka, trapped in a flooding river. Four page
fold-out color photo of a million dollars in a big stack.
Photo of crazily overloaded truck in the Sahara. Actor
Joe Lane (real name) who acts under the name Nathan
Lane.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine May 1996
: Cover - Dream House 1996, designed by architect Michael
Graves. A royal mess, Princess Diana. Lions of the Serengeti.
Oklahoma City one year later (after bombing), and other
disasters like Pan Am flight 103, shooting in McDonald's,
more - includes photos of Rosemary and Harry Koelsch,
Wayne and Wilbert Schmidt, John Cummock, Adelina Hernandez,
Maria Guadalupe Flores, Ava Nelson. A million dollar
deal for Cindy Sherman's haunting self-portraits. Life
goes to China for an adoption, Mary Ann Sherman and
Tom Lund from Woodstock, New York and new child Su Ziaoji.
Editor's note includes a very cute photo of cojoined
twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel taking a photo. Crazy
page and a half photo of van in Surabaya, Java tipping
over - it was overloaded with more than a hundred soccer
fans. VERY nice two page color photo of Ule Buhler climbing
an impressive roof on the Schilthorn, Switzerland.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
G - $13
Life Magazine June
1996 : Cover - Erupting volcano. Then the big
one hits, volcano - feature story includes Pompeii,
Heimaey, Pinatubo, Hawaii, Yellowstone. The Pakistani
slave children who make our kids' toys, and other countries
. Phrenzy over a band called PHISH. Monastery of Christ
in te Desert in the Chama River canyon near Abiquiu,
New Mexico, Benedictine monks. Life goes to the 79th
annual International Beauty Show. David and Peter Turnley
photograph human drama. Neat full page color Milk ad
with rough and tumble football player Steve Young. Amazing
photo of a young woman nearly run over by a train in
Paris. Photo of falling horse and rider at Aintree steeplechase,
jockey Conor O'Dwyer. Charming photo of premature babies
Kyrie and Brielle Jackson, one with arm around the other.
Full page Waterman pens ad with the writers of Friends.
Neat photo of Jay Bartletti catching the Hyakutake comet.
Cool photo of diver Lesley WArd. Broadway's Tony awards.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
F (All VG, nice, but has a mildly water marked
margin) - $5
Life Magazine July
1996 : Cover - Sprinter Gwen Torrence. This
issue was apparently printed with four different "naked"
covers, though I have seen only one. Naked power,
amazing grace - a photographic celebration of the Olympic
body, athletic beauty, photos include Mark Henry (weightlifter),
Michael Johnson (runner), Sharon Monplaisir (fencer),
Carl Lewis (runner), Mary Ellen Clark (diver), Gail
Devers (runner), Margot Thien and Nathalie Schneyder
(synchronized swimmers), Gwen Torrence (runner), Jackie
Joyner-Kersee (Heptathlete), Rick McNair - Alex Rousseau
- Chris Humbert - Chris Duplanty (water polo team),
Russ Bertram (diver), Holly McPeak (volleyball). Families
of Palestinian suicide bombers are learning to live
with death. Comedian Rosie O'Donnell is challenging
Oprah. Chinese refugees create art in Pennsylvania prison,
origami and more. Life goes to a Colorado race pitting
a pink elephant against a giant duck, Boulder's Kinetic
Challenge. 23 mostly black churches in the south are
burned. Time lapsed photo of the midnight sun in Loppa,
Norway. Holy Cow - wild photo of Australian Surf Lifesavers
in boats in the surf. Sylvain, who lives in Paris, likes
to climb buildings - photographed with his new wife(?)
atop the Church of Sainte-Clotilde.
EXC - $35 (Gwen Torrence
cover)
G - $13 (Gwen Torrence
cover)
Back to top of this
Vintage Life magazines for
Sale page.
Life Magazine August
1996 : Cover - Climbers on Everest. Exclusive
: what really happened on Everest, a well-done and gruesome
story, incuding Scott Fischer, Lobsang, Anatoli Boukreev,
and others. Neat two page color KOOL cigarettes ad with
somewhat unbelievable picture combining a windsurfer
and a rough surf-on-rocks scene. Nice blue underwater
photo of Navy seals in training with hands and feet
bound. Absolutely odd photo of night time squash game
at the great pyramids, Egypt. California, the rough
edge of the American Dream. World's top female matador,
Cristina Sanchez. Four-generation family, the Condeluci
family of Pittsburgh. Life goes to the Senior Olympics,
includes runner Pat Peterson, Shot putter Herb Steele,
Phil Mulkey. Quality of mercy in Ann Arbor, Michigan
where black Keshia Thomas saves a KKK rally spectator.
Andy Levin photographs Coney Island beach.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine September
1996 : Cover - Alternative healing. The healing
revolution, surgery or acupuncture?, antibiotics or
herbs? Both old and new medicines together are shown
most effective. Jewish in America. Life remembers First
Families in the fishbowl of public regard. One deadly
week of child abuse in America. Photographer Veronique
Vial. Nice full page color Milk ad with Spike Lee. Great
page and half color photo of sprinters Gail Devers and
Merlene Ottey in the 100 metter dash in the Olympics.
CRAZY photo of a snorkler swimming by a huge 50 foot
Whale Shark. Photo of some of the townsfolk of Montoursville,
Pennsylvania which lost 21 people in the explosion of
TWA Flight 800. Disney World's 25th birthday in Orlando.
Neat bunch of photos of people by Frederic Brenner,
portraits. Sad two page photo of Afghanistan women in
full purdah, more, photos by Pascal Maitre. .
G - $13
Life Magazine October
1996 : Cover - Marilyn Monroe, created by Rob
Silvers using a photomosaic of previous LIFE magazine
covers. 60th Anniversary
Collector's edition. A tribute to photographer
Carl Mydans by the editor of LIFE. A brief description
of the start of LIFE in 1936, including some covers
of the earlier satirical Life
and the Rehearsal "Dummy" issue that appeared
before the November 23, 1936 issue. All through this
issue is very neat, behind-the-scenes coverage on how
LIFE actually was produced, the decisions, the deadlines,
stopping the presses for last minute cover changes,
and such. Unusual photo of FDR seated during prayers
while everyone else stood - he could not use his legs
because of polio. Full page ad for E.T. the movie on
videocassette. Chilling photo of Olympic athlete Jesse
Owens standing in the gold medal position on the podium
while the third place winner gives the Nazi salute in
Berlin in 1936. This issue compares lots of facts and
photos between 1936 and 1996. Full page photo plus page
of text about Flavio da Silva of Rio de Janeiro. A repeat
(in smaller format) of One Week's Dead from the June
27, 1969 issue. Two page color photo of the seven astronauts
and their wives (two different covers of LIFE). Full
page Absolute vodka ad - Absolute Venice with pigeons.
Full page color Milk ad with Ivana Trump. Reproduction
of all of the covers of LIFE from 1936 on.
VG - $98
Life Magazine Winter
1996 : Cover - Vintage car tail lights on a 1959
Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Special
collector's edition - Hot for the road, 100 years of
the automobile in America. Includes a photo of
carhenge. How the car liberated women. Muscle cars including
GTO. Electric cars and other non-polluting cars. Backseat
rites of passage. Dashboards. More! Neat two page ad
with 7 different red Dodge vehicles. Full page color
Mobil oil ad showing a rather tattered looking space
shuttle landing. Neat page and a half color photo of
mainstreet in Albuquerque in 1969, starting at the intersection
with Carlisle. Alice Huyler Ramsey makes the first cross
country automobile trip in 1909, the Merry Mexwell Four.
Many neat vintage photos of automotive history. The
first physician to make house calls in an automobile
was Dr. Carlos Booth of Youngstown, Ohio in 1895. Much
of interest to today's Detroit crowd. Sign on car for
sale "$100 will buy this car, must have cash, lost
all on the stock market." Wowser! - Two page photo
of elegant 1930 Duesenberg Derham model J Tourster.
United Automobile workers union, UAW. Spare tires for
sale at a gas station in San Marco, Texas in 1940. Full
page photo of Seligman, Arizona main highway with hitchhiker
in 1947, shows Texaco station and more, Route 66. Small
photo showing surf beach in San Onofre, California in
1950. 1948 photo of Preston Tucker, P.T. and the 812
Cord that had a swiveling center headlight and more.
1950 Photo of Pink cadillac and Sugar Ray Robinson,
outside Sugar Ray's. Full page photo of 31 junior high
students in a Volkswagen Beetle, VW Bug. The future
is electric, electric cars. MUCH MORE.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine November
1996 : Cover - Monkey Fetus. The dawn of life,
revolutionary prenatal photographs of humans and animals.
Gay marriage. Political primer, what really separates
Democrats from Republicans. Little boy falls into gorilla
cage in Illinois zoo, photos by Bob Allison of Binti
Jua and boy. 25th anniversary of the silicon chip, a
neat article about computer development. Life goes on
Shore leave with two sailors in New York City, Smith
and Ross. Great page and a half photo of runner Aimee
Mullins with two specially made leg prostheses for running,
Paralympics. Sailors Rusty Smith and Andrew Ross visit
New York City on leave, USS John F. Kennedy. 8 page
glossy color pages of ads for Canon printers. A nice
article about gay marriage, including STeve Habgood
and Mark Sadlek. Gorgeous underwater photos by Howard
Schatz, ballet dancer Katita Waldo.
EXC - $35
G - $13
Life Magazine December
1996 : Cover - Statue of Virgin Mary. The mystery
of virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. Pennsylvania's Bruderhof
community. Father - daughter relationships, Leon Borensztein
and daughter Sharon. Mechanical heart. Christmas celebrations
around the world. Photo essay - railroads, O. Winton
Link. Sxi page fold-out color ad for Malboro cigarettes.
Very neat full page color ad for Toyota RAV4 with Mount
Moran inside it. Page and a half photo of little Kristina
Jacobson running away from the overturned car in which
she had been kidnapped - armed police all around, Yoncalla,
Oregon. The huge AIDs quilt laid out in the Washington
DC Captial mall. Christmas around the world. Advice
from old to new - Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters,
Chet Atkins and Suzy Bogguss, Cissy and Whitney Houston,
Camilee Paglia and Harold Bloom, Rockhead Johnson and
Jim Brown. Nice full page Milk ad with Patrick Ewing.
Heart Transplants and Artificial hearts.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
G - $13
 Life
Magazine January 1997 : Cover - Wedding of JFK,
Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Collector's
Edition : The year in Pictures, 1996. America
mourns the victims of TWA 800 and Valujet 592. Mars
rocks - aliens invade. Super kids. Much more! Two page
yellow and colorful MSN ad. Two page Marlboro cigarettes
ad with hokey use of three different cowboy images laid
into same picture. Nice photo of Cross-country skier
on Brooklyn Bridge in blizzard. Good photo of Eldrick
"Tiger" Woods - golf rookie of the year. A
humorous photo of five photographers taking a picture
of a missing cat - Socks, the First Cat of the Whitehouse.
Big two page sad photo of Julie Stuart, Claire Phythian
and Heidi Snow on the beach marking the first anniversary
of the explosion of TWA flight 800. Another sad photo,
this one of Ekaterina Gordeeva performing an ice skating
routine alone after her husband and partner died suddenly.
Much more!!
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine February
1997 : Cover - Human skeleton. A fantastic journey
through the human body. A 21st century look at how doctors
will see us and heal us. How one death-row prisoner
found afterlife on the Internet. Michael Jennings of
East Providence, Rhode Island, with a brain tumor. Life
goes to an enchanted Carnevale in Venice. Photo essay
- Eli Reed's America.
EXC - $35
Life Magazine March
1997 : Cover - Pygmy Loris and Orangutan. Miracle
babies - endangered species back from the brink of extinction,
zoo successes. Painter Andrew Wyeth at 80 - great article.
Ice skating on Holland's frozen canals. Rondie Harris
and the story of her intestinal disease and multiple
transplants. Rather funny two page photo and text of
napkin covered diners eating the Ortolan, a small bird
and protected species. Astounding photo of fancy country
home high and dry, but completely surrounded by water,
New Jerusalem, California. Photo showing the cruelty
of 24 school boys chained together in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Wonderful two page photo (no captain) with barber giving
a little boy a haircut in a barber chair shaped like
a red car - Life is a journey. Full page color Waltham
pet care ad with Dr. Angele Thompson and a golden lab.
Liz Smith, the queen of kiss and tell. Full page MILK
ad with swimmer Amy Van Dyken. Ice skating in Netherlands,
computer enhanced photos by Co Rentmeester. Charming
full page Baked Lays potato chips ad with three lovely
ladies in black, one is Miss Piggy. Photographer Robert
Capa.
EXC - $35
Life Magazine April
1997 : Cover - Liz Taylor. Exclusive, from her
hospital bed Elizabeth Taylor takes about hopes, fears
and brain surgery. A church for the 21st century. Fossil
rustlers and flying sheep, photo essay of the showdown
between the old and new West. David Baileys photographs
rock and roll music. Life goes on the road with the
worlds baddest birders, Paul Pratt, Glenn Gervais, Tom
Hince, Bruce Di Labio - World Series of birding. Whitney
Lee killed by a drunk driver, and his punishment. Angelo
Ntibagilisirwa Ntabambe, Hutu refugee child reunited
with parents.
EXC - $35
Back to top of this
Vintage Life magazines for
Sale page.
Life Magazine May 1997
: Cover - Sara Hogenson, Asthma sufferer. Breathe easy,
new discoveries, smarter drugs, breakthrough therapies
for allergies or asthma. 1997 dream house inspired by
Frank Lloyd Wright and designed by Taliesin. Photographer
Art Wolfe captures the postmodern look of age-old tribes.
Life goes the distance with hundreds of fleet footed
basset hound dogs. Why does a 67 year-old blind woman
adopt handicapped kids no one else will take, Norma
Claypool. Rap Singers Salt-N-Pepa. Galen Rowell reaches
the top of the world, tiny Oodaaq Island.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine June
1997 : Cover - Titanic sinking. Titanic fever,
why we can't look away from disasters, includes story
of survivor Michel Navratil, art by Ken Marschall, many
different disasters. Chelsea Clinton's last days at
home. Looking ahead to when China takes over Hong Kong,
David Tang, Bryan Dutton, Christina Lai, Rev. Peter
Kwong, Lawrence Wong and jockeys,Jackie Chan. Landscape
artist Wallace Huntington. Full page color MILK ad with
Andrew L. Cohen, Darcy Covington, Joseph Feskanin, and
the Law Enforcement Academy Class of Ankeny, Iowa. Horrible
photo of woman Hutu refugee from Rwanda dying in Zaire.
Very cool page and a half color photo of contortionist
Karima Zaripova. Replica slave ship at Detroit's new
Museum of African American History, with Lavern Homan.
Photo of a saxaphone player and Hale-Bopp comet, in
Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming. Two page travel ad for Chicago
with Roger Ebert. Two page State Farm Insurance ad with
Florence Denomme, Angel of the Desert, Gila River Indian
Reservation. The Soviet Union and the United States
are in the space program together, nice big feature,
Star City. The photos of Stan Grossfeld, children in
trouble, Fida Sherafi, Emir Guintana, many other stories.
VG - $23
Life Magazine July
1997 : Cover - Astrology signs. Astrology - why
so many of us now believe the stars reflect the soul.
Yellowstone National Park at 125, includes a curious
shot of bicycles on the various layers of Mammoth Hot
springs - great article. At home with the boss, Bruce
Springsteen - a big article with lots of candid photos.
Aaron Collado and single father Daniel Collado, both
with AIDS. The town of Laguna, California recreates
1862 photo of Lincoln with real people. The robot named
Skin Deep shows different human emotions. Neat two page
photo of the public laundry area in Bombay, India. Cool
photo of a tornado in downtown Miami. Happy photo of
Ahn Sun-kook and his family as they reach freedom outside
of North Korea. Artist Josephine Stapleton creates an
American flag using milk jugs filled with colored liquid.
Two page centerspread State Farm insurance ad featuring
Jackie Robinson, baseball player. Photographer Katerina
Jebb - she uses a copy machine for interesting results,
includes models Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Kirsty Hume,
Katherine Boone. Humorous photo os John Maich of New
Guinea with some huge green beans. Full page Head and
Shoulders shampoo ad with waiters at the Marche in Chicago.
EXC - $35
F (All VG, nice, but
cover is lightly rubbed) - $5
Life Magazine August
1997 : Cover - Shoulder massage. The healing
power of touch, massage, includes premature Brandan
Owens, Maria Hernandez-Reif. The day Elvis died, plus
Eliv retrospective. Remembering Jimmy Stewart, nice
feature piece with good vintage photos. American shopping
malls, includes Parma, Ohio, Parmatown mall, Dan Wallon,
Nancy and Peter Seelig, Ernie Szollosi, Mike Pillar,
Parma Entertainers with Carol Lange, Nashalaine Jones,
Loretta Moore, Donna Goodwin, Teresa Papanek, Vanessa
Wakut, Brenda Lovell, Shaun Filley, Mike Lemieux. Closeup
- Mel Gibson. The Bolshoi Ballet, includes Nadezhda
Gracheva, Tatyana Rastorgueva, Anna Ivanova, Gennadiy
Yanin, Mark Peretokin, Nina Semizorova, Anna Antonicheva.
Steve Wulf gets to be the team mascot, the Manatee,
Florida Marlins baseball. Life goes to the Burning Man
Festival, Gerlach, Black Rock, Nevada. Full page color
MILK ad with Michael Johnson in a running starting-block
pose. Full page color FloVent asthma medicine with runner
Jackie Joyner-Kersee. To page State Farm Insurance ad
with Space Flight Director Gene Granz. Full page color
Doral cigarettes ad with Joy Franklin of Decatur. Two
page color General Motors ad with ski area theme and
license LUV2SKI. The amazing photos of Don McCullin,
India. Humorous photo of golfer Tiger Woods in a bunker,
only his head shows.
G - $18
Life Magazine Fall
1997 : Cover - Famous people from the millennium.
Special double issue : The
Millennium, 100 events that changed the world.
Humorous two page color Hewlett Packard ad with Will
Simpson, Richard Simpson and fish. History of fixing
the calendar. The Rosetts stone. Elvis Presley. The
Olympics, with super photo of sprinter Dennis Mitchell.
Don Quixote. Spanish Armada. Anesthesia. Haiti gets
its freedom. Japan opens its door. India gains its independence.
Checking accounts. Coca-cola. Suez canal. Dolly, the
first cloned mammal. Cathedral at Chartres. Simon Bolivar.
The sewing machine. Dynamite. X-rays. The toilet. Newspapers.
Birth control. Benjamin Spock. Tobacco. The ice box
and refrigerator. Timepieces. U.S. Civil War. Striking
oil. Water purification.Gregor Mendel and heredity and
genetics. Potatoes. Telegraph. Vote for women. Capitalism.
Albert Einstein and relativity, atomic bomb. French
revolution. Space flight to the moon. Wright brothers
and first flight. Tea. And MUCH MUCH more. This is a
very interesting and readable issue - it will absorb
you.
EXC - $35
G - $13
Life Magazine September
1997 : Cover - Oprah. The secret inner life of
America's most powerful woman, Oprah Winfrey. Chameleons
- super piece. Buying arms (stingers, guns, missiles)
in Darra, near Peshawar, Pakistan. Photographer Gordon
Parks. Two page color United States Postal Service ad,
one page is a large reporduction of the 32 cent Humphrey
Bogart stamp. Neat two page color Allegra allergy medicine
ad with woman wind surfing in a field of wheat. Two
page Radisson hotels ad featuring Concierge Roberto
Vidas. Super creepy two page photo of white supremacist
women hatemongers giving the Hitler salute in Hayden
Lake, Idaho, Aryan Nations.Two page photo of an abandoned
baby in China, resulting from the one-child policy and
the preference for boys. Dramatic photo of the Australian
team fallen in the river after a bridge collapses, Maccabiah
Games in Israel. Photo of astronaut Mike Foale, getting
ready for his trip to Mir. Jack Walsh dives into a small
pole from 8 stories up. Interview with director Martin
Scorsese. Cute two page color Nissan Altima ad with
crowd of policemen at a donut shop. Larry Towell shows
the world from his front porch, photos and text. Full
page Pedigree dog food ad with Dr. Fran Smith and adorable
puppy.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine October
1997 : Cover - Toddler in prison. Babies behind
bars, photo essay of the children of women in prison
- a grim story, includes Xheronte Lynch, Randy Whiteley,
Christina Pitzer, Kumi Gray. It's not easy being JFK
Jr., the trials of a famous life, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Diana Golden of Bristol, Rhode Island, her story (disabled
skier, winner of gold in Calgary Olympics, multiple
cancer survivor). Full page MILK ad with magician David
Copperfield. A very nice editor's note about Janet Berman,
who just died in a car accident. Wild photo of a goat
fetus in an artificial womb, Koyo Yoshida. Pretty darn
weird photo of Benjamin Netanyahu and his family on
the beach surrounded by security guards. Two page photo
of Rika Matsuda who has just survived the crash of Korean
Air Flight 801. An interview with Bob Newhart. 1997
Travel directory, a big advertising section. Two page
State Farm insurance ad with Rick Hansen, wheelchair
athlete and hero. Frans Lanting goes into the wild for
amazing wildlife photos. The artistic photos of Felice
Frankel. Funny photo from an art exhibit in Helsinki,
Life imitates art.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
G - $13
Life Magazine November
1997 : Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's edition
: Diana - portrait of a lady, her favorite photographers,
her favorite photos. Final journey of Mother Teresa.
Macaque attack, monkey business on a Thai city's streets.
Women boxers, Biloxi, Mississippi, Kathy Collins, Christine
Dupree, Franki Globuschutz, Yvonne Trevino, Tracy Byrd,
Faye, Nora Daigle, Shirely Prescott, Baby Doll Riley,
and others.. Veterans of the "war to end all wars"
take a bittersweet look back across eight decades, includes
Herbert Young, Charles Town, Marie Odee Johnson, Matthew
R. Tibby, James G. Dunton, Cadet Shirer. Project Bandaloop
dancers on the face of El Capitan, rock climbing dancers,
photos by Galen Rowell. Full page color MILK ad with
a young Martha Stewart and a Holstein cow. Cute two
page color Hewlett Packard Deskjet printer ad with cat,
mouse and copy of mouse hole. Paparazzi Weegee. Animals
and people made with fruit and vegetables, Joost Elffers.
Full page Radisson Hotels ad with Concierge Addis Rezene
and a two-year-old. Amazing photos of dancers by Howard
Schatz, including Askia Swift. Humorous photo of bingo
game in Roswell, New Mexico with alien participating.
EXC - $52
Life Magazine December
1997 : Cover - Michael Jackson holding his baby
son. What is the soul? - Deepak Chopra, Shirley MacLaine,
Marianne Williamson, Rev. George Foreman and others.
Anorexia, Sarah Love, Jayme Porter and Julie Porter
- insurance companies refuse to pay for help. Three
Tibetan children leave to seek an education in a free
land, Nancy Jo Johnson, Lhasa, Lharkha, Norden and Tenzin
- a wonderful article. Full page color Christopher Radko
fine glass Christmas ornaments ad. Full page photo of
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. A very nice editor's
note about writer Brad Darrach who had just died at
76. Curious and odd ski theme General Foods International
Coffees ad for Suisse Mocha. Photo of a Kurdish victim
of land mines in Iraq. Charming photo of twins and triplets
at Big Ridge Elementary School in Tennessee. Amazing
set of photos of a man whose pants were caught on the
horn of a bull and subsequently stripped all the way
off. Photo of Matthew Eappen who died while under the
care of his au pair. Photo of women in a harem in Brunei,
story includes Shannon Marketic and Revecca Ferratti.
Two page Zocor ad featuring Mike Vaughn. An interview
with producer Debbie Allen. 6 page fold-out Olympus
camera ad that includes two page photo of baby Jake,
October 5, 1997. Full page MILK ad with Ron Howard,
second full page of same from Andy Griffith show. Landscape
photos of Stephen Johnson. Great photo of tiny kid Shinkaruk
on the ice with the Calgary Hitmen hockey team.
G - $28
Life Magazine January
1998 : Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's
Edition - The Year in Pictures, 1997. Young women
disposing of unwanted babies, Vanessa Gomez, Georgia
Bowen, Linda Chu and other cases, the following four
are trash sorters who have found dead infants - Jennifer
Edwards, Mark Mitchell, Louis White, Albert Milligan,
Debi Faris and the Garden of Angels. Photo essay - strong
women, Fiona Apple, Gabrielle Reece, Jada Pinkett, Venus
Williams, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Mary Karr. Space man
of the year, Mike Foale, space station. Full page color
MILK ad with Ron Howard. Short follow-up on Aaron Collado
and his father (see July 1997). Short follow-up on Ken
Kast and Katya Kast (see February 1994). The comet Hale-Bopp.
The Death of Princess Diana. Pathfinder mission to Mars.
Dolly, the first cloned mammal, sheep, Ian Wilmut. Au
Pair Louise Woodward and the accidental death of her
charge. Rwandan Hutu refugees. The flood in Grand Forks,
North Dakota. Deep Blue beats chess player Garry Kasparov.
Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowas have septuplets.
The death of Mother Teresa. The death of William S.
Burroughs. And other deaths of famous people such as
golfer Ben Hogan.
EXC - $45
VG - $35
Life Magazine February
1998 : Cover - Man trying to sleep, looks like
Tom Hanks but might be author Robert Sullivan. Why 70
million of us are sleepless in America - what you can
do about it. Insomnia. Two page color Marlboro ad with
usual studly cowboy in leather, red shirt, branding
irons in fire. The 1998 LIFE dream house by architect
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, a glass house. Prepping for the
winter Olympics in Nagano, article includes a cool night
photo of Donna Weinbrecht on skis on the empire state
building, twin towers in background - other olympic
athletes in sports gear in neat poses in their home
town. Master Portrait artist Chuck Close, after a paralyzing
spinal injury. Lovely full page color photo on one of
the contents page, Laura Ettlinger pregnant - other
ladies inside. Michael Carneal shoots eight schoolmates
at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky - two
page photo, some text. Adrian Targett is a decendent
of 9,000 year old skeleton discovered in Cheddar, England.
Charming photo of Gereco Buckner with firemen, Memphis.
A buddhist monastery cares for the dying, offering a
model of compassion and grace, AIDS patients, Thailand.
Photographer Jeff Rotman and fish. Charming pair of
photos of Shannon Phillips and Ann Connell. Two page
State Farm Insurance ad with Barbara Jordan. Full page
color MILK ad with Larry King.
VG - $23
F (All VG, nice, but
has a very faintly water marked corner tip) - $9
Life Magazine March
1998 : Cover - Girl holding up photo. Kids' pictures
to God - what children want God to see. Bobby Kennedy
Jr. remembers his younger brother Michael Kennedy. Grand
Forks, North Dakota rebuilds after the big flood, includes
photos of Mike Swang, GReg Stennes, Dave Homstad, Haley
Fore, Holly Hangsleben, Lynsey Mitzel, Roy Neuman, and
others. . Amateur dancer Robert Lipsyte, ballroom dance
competition, the rumba. The last of the whale hunters,
Indonesia, Lembata. Great two page photo of postman
Darrell Hafford sliding through his rounds in Auburn,
Maine after a huge ice storm. Horrible photo of a bunch
of dogs crammed in a cage on the back of a little motorbike
in South Korea, on their way to be killed and eaten.
Photo of Terry and Melba Hall as their farm was being
auctioned off in Maryland. Vik Muniz creates portraits
out of sugar. Neat two page Allegra allergy medicine
ad with windsurfer in grass field.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine Spring
1998 : Cover - The best magazine photography
of the year, the first annual Alfred Eisenstaedt awards.
Hundreds of pictures and the stories behind them. Collector's
edition, the Eisie Issue. Two page DiGiorno pizza
ad with three boy scouts (cub scouts), Woodchucks. Full
page Motrin ad with rowdy rock climbing scene, mountain
cliff. Full page Allegra allergie medicine ad with man
skiing in flowers. Full page Killogg's cereal ad with
older man carrying surfboard. And - of course - hundreds
of prize winning photos from the year. Among much more,
subjects include Kryvorivnya, Lynn Johnson (Paralympics),
Norma Claypool, shackled prisoner giving birth, Elizabeth
Taylor after brain surgery, Rahamou, land mine victims
in Kabul, photos of Larry Towell and much more.
VG - $23
Life Magazine April
1998 : Cover - Strand of DNA. Were you born that
way? - Personality, temperament, even life choices,
new studies show it's mostly in your genes (obesity,
aggression, optimism, addiction, more), Tess Jouany,
Kent Karieva, Paula Sylvester, Roy Norvell Graham, Michael
Kay-McGrail, Kid Congo Powers. Worship in the shadow
of religious persecution. Tide pools. A Miner Miracle,
Kathy Miner, An entrepreneur suits up low-income women
for the job market, Bianca Gonzalez, Teleatha Davis,
Gaynor Breedon. Moscow's top brass invade Wakefield,
Massachusetts. Legendary Blues musicians and their admirers
talk about blues. Photography Evgen Bavcar. A year in
the life of an apple orchard. Two page State Farm insurance
ad featuring Florence Denomme, poverty fighter, Angel
of the Desert, Gila River Indian Reservation. Photo
of the Tax Police Department's Physical Protection Squad
in Russia, tax collectors that look like swat team members.
Photo of storm surge in the home Marilyn Lane in Solimar
Beach, California. Wonderful four page fold-out color
composite photo of the four seasons on the Dr. Davies
Farm in Congers, New York. That gorgeous photo of Tennessee's
Mystery FAlls straight drop in a cave. Full page MILK
ad with Ron Howard.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine May 1998
: Cover - The septuplets. Exclusive, raising the septuplets
: Nathan, Brandon, Kenny, Joel, Alexis, Kelsey, and
Natalie McCaughey. Cancer vaccines : teaching the body
to cure itself. Bill Bryson spends three months hiking
along the Appalachian Trail. Saving the Orangutans in
borneo, Birute Galdikas. Kevin Uliassi, balloonist.
Artist Albert Wagner, faith in paint. Photos - New York
city then and now.
Out of Stock -
Life Magazine June
1998 : Cover - Doctor David Loxterkamp delivering
a baby in Belfast, Maine. What makes a good doctor?
Practicing medicine the old-fashioned way. Psychics.
Bob Hope at 95. Father's day photos. Honoring RFK. Polar
bears. Redefining beauty - albinos, albinism. A shipwreck
survived, 1904 sinking of General Slocum. Two page State
Farm insurance ad with Flight Director Gene Kranz, space
program. Full page color Zyrtec allergy medicine ad.
Two page photo of Akuac Malong and friend in Sudan,
caption pertains to Islamic soldiers enslaving women
and children of other faiths. Two page color photo of
two men working on the face of the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Odd two page color photo of company field trip in Korea
where workers are doing exercises on their backs in
the mud (Fun!). Full page photo of Francina Diamini
crying at a funeral in South Africa. Juan Romero thirty
years after the JFK assassination. Lovely aerial photos
of patterns caused by farming. Photos from the first
year of Ella Rosalind Baker.
EXC - $35
Life Magazine July
1998 : Cover - Thurston High school students
from Springfield, Oregon. Stopping the bullets : heroes
of a high school shooting, Jacob Ryker, Adam Walburger,
Douglas and David Ure, Joshua Ryker, Travis Weaver,
Tiffany Wright, Michael Peebles, Loni Wilson, Kelly
West, also Anna Esselstyn, Levi Johnson, Tony Case,
killer Kipland Kinkel, Mikael Nickolauson victim, Ben
Walker victim, more. TWA Flight 800 reconstructed. Disco
rediscovered. Maya Angelou's birthday. The eagle lady,
Jean Keene in Homer, Alaska. Mississippi river cleanup,
Chad Pregracke, Rodney Shaw, Jim Jaggers. Animal E.R.,
Boston's Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, Donna Snow,
Dr. Manning, more. Coney Island around the clock. Best
car ad EVER - Nissan Altima. Two page State Farm insurance
ad featuring Dr. Wiliam and Kathy Magee, Operation Smile.
Odd two page colorful Doral cigarettes ad with hot air
ballooning theme. Letter to the editor from JoAnne Smith
and Melissa Fenchel of Waterford, Michigan pertaining
to the American Basset Waddle. India and Pakistan both
set off nuclear explosions and their populations are
proud while the rest of the world is less so. Photo
of train pile-up from crash of Inter-City Express train
en route to Hamburg, Germany. Photo and caption about
brutal chaos in Sierra Leone. Odd photos of Coney Island
night and day by Georgia Kokolis.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine August
1998 : Cover - tornado and forest fire. Weather
: 16,367 dead and $45.2 billion in damage, what you
can do about it. A day in the life of John Dickson,
garbage collector in Seattle. Tragedy in Colebrook,
New Hampshire - shooting of Dennis Joos, Scott Phillips,
Lester Lord, Vickie Bunnell. Dog day care (great article)
: KETCH K-9 Educational Training Center of Hillsborough.
Cuba's great pitcher Orlando Hernandez flees to America.
The Carousel and Red Grooms. Manta Rays. Roberto Arno,
his deformity, and his incredible spirit in over-coming
the handicap. Two Page State Farm Insurance ad with
Coach Eddie Robinson. Letters to the Editor include
letters from Fred J. Frank of Las Cruces, Amy L. Watt
of New Cumberland, West Virginia, Maya Spier of Olympia,
Washington. Two page photo from Puerto Rico of Raul
Santana knocked out in a riot. Gruesome closeup of the
bumper of the truck behind which James Byrd Jr. was
dragged to death by racists Lawrence Russell Brewer,
Shawn Allen Berry and John William King. Photos of Antigona
Tishukaj, her mother Lumnie and Rexhe Caca, Albania.
Photo of twister damage in Spencer, South Dakota, home
toppled in mud slide in Laguna Niguel, California, much
more weather-related carnage.
VG - $23
G - $13
Life Magazine September
1998 : Cover - Tony Bennett, Martha Stewart,
Courteney Cox, Al Roker, the best thing I learned in
school. Others address the same question : Chris Rock,
Wally Lamb, Faith Hill, Dean Ornish, John Kerry, Harvey
Keitel, Frank McCourt, Tim Russert, Willie Nelson, Kristen
Johnston, Adam Sandler, Aretha Franklin, and Emeril
Lagasse. 10 ways you can improve American education.
Cojoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel and their eighth
summer - another wonderful article. Full page Radisson
hotels ad with bartender Amber Carson-Davis. A large
number of letters to the editor pertaining to the massacre
in Springfield, Oregon (see July 1998 LIFE magazine).
Neat photo - group weddings in Jordan save money. Photo
of the grim aftermath in Nairobi, Kenya just after the
bombing of the US embassy. A photo from the wedding
of Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel. Abraham Zapruder's
shocking home movie of the assasination of JFK. Rocket
boys, rocket builders, more, Homer Hickam, Jr., Sherman,
O'Dell, Sonny. Page and a half color photo of the Blue
Lagoon spa in Iceland, emphasizing the geothermal plant.
The simple life on Turtle Island, Eustace Conway and
back to nature lifestyle. The remains of Pat Blassie
are indentified, he was the unknown soldier for Vietnam.
New Jersey pageant for Inner Beauty, Ms. Housing Authority
Pageant, Keyonna Bellamy, Larrita Jackson, Jasmine Jeffress,
Heather Ellis, Latoya Houseman, Shaunetta Ransom, Shannon
Scott, Nevada Hall, Jaquita Evans, Crystal Hawkins,
Lakeedah Greene, Sakinah Dortch, Danielle Mickens, Shaneale
Brown. A day in the life of an airplane mechanic, Dough
Dixon, American Airlines.
VG - $23
 Life
Magazine October 1998 : Cover - John Glenn, returns
to space. The Last hero - astronaut John Glenn, story
includes other astronauts as well and Chuck Yeager.
A Louisiana Grandma fights big industry, Esmelda West
goes to Tokyo, Japan. Waiting for the Virgin Mary, the
madonna in Conyers, Georgia at Nancy Fowler farm. Wyeth's
lost masterpiece. Raising Cheetahs, David and Carol
Cawthra Hopcraft. Winners at the Iowa state fair, includes
Lillian Myers, Kelsi Baker, Leah Campbell, Gary James
Chilton and others. Mercury Seven and flying ace Chuck
Yeager. A day in the life of Laura Droge, Pony girl.
Neat two-page Timex expedition watch ad with backcountry
skiing / ski mountaineering theme. Two page State Farm
Insurance ad with Rick Hansen who traveled around the
world by wheelchair. Photos of Laura Droge with a horse
in Elmont, New York, more, pony girl. Photo of Joe Pike
doing the Mudpit bellyflop at the Redneck Games in Dublin,
Georgia. Life with Cheetah Shallah, David and Carol
Cawthra Hopcraft. The poetry section includes full page
photos of Donna Bickel, Martin B. Miller and Jaik, Steve
Conteaguero, Howard Michael Henderson, and smaller photo
of Lawrence Broch.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Back to top of this
Vintage Life magazines for
Sale page.
Life Magazine November
1998 : Cover - Christopher Reeve. Thanksgiving
: 100 best things about America now. Keiko goes home
to Iceland. Christopher Reeve counts his blessings.
Former prostitutes - quitting the streets, Agnes MercurioNichole
Sylvia-Zeno, Norma Hotaling, Autumn Burris, Betty Ricks
- good for them, they look happier now! Four adventurers
cross the Atlantic in a homemade raft, Betsy Terrell,
David Pearlman, Rodger Doncaster, Edward Garry, the
Floating Neutrinos. Backstage at the Emmys. Residents
of a fading Florida community make a stand to save it,
Stiltsville. Wonderful photo of dinosaur trackway in
Bolivia. Verna Johnston, California environmentalist.
Very attractive if austere Volkswagen beetle ad, two
page, one page color. Two page State Farm insurance
ad featuring football coach Eddie Robinson. Two page
color MasterCard ad showing lines of South Africans
waiting to vote. Gruesome photo of partly completed
graft of living hand and arm onto another patient, Clint
Hallam. Two page color aerial photo of a row of barns
in the Dominican Republic blown away by Hurrican Georges.
Photo from the Most Kissable Bald Head contest, kisser
Rhonda Taylor. A day in the life of midwife David Paad
of Arnold, Maryland. Senate candidate Fred Tuttle -
great article. Keiko the killer whale moves from Newport,
Oregon to Heimaey, Iceland, Free Willy - multiple photos
in colorful Iceland. LIFE's legendary photographers
talk : Edward Clark (segregation), Alfred Eisenstaedt
(Hitler), Carl Mydans (POW's), Peter Stackpole (Undressing),
Jack Birns (severed head, General Ting), Martha Holmes
(UnAmerican hearings), and John Dominis (Leopard). Full
page photo of Shirley Chisholm, historic African American
politician.
EXC - $35
VG - $23
Life Magazine December
1998 : Cover - Words "Frank McCourt : when
you think of God what do you see? (author of Angelas
Ashes). Around the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2. In
search of the man called Moses. U.S. prisoners are providing
wheelchairs and hope for disabled people in two dozen
countries. Gail's gift - her letters after death, Gail
Farrow, Ronald Watson. Harp music for the dying. Life
in India, true colors. A day in the life of tree farmer
Bill Dennis. Two page State Farm insurance ad with Dr.
William and kathy Magee of Operation Smile (cleft palates,
more). Photo of men looking at portraits of Sikh leaders
in the Golden temple museum in Punjab. Lovely two page
photo of Saturn. Two page photo of Whyudi working from
a jermal fishing platform in Indonesia. Creepy full
page photo of Richard Osborn of Natrona, Wyoming with
a sign in support of the murder of a gay student in
Laramie. Full page photo of Bedrie Saferi feeding her
orphaned neice in Yugoslavia. Full page American Greetings
ad includes sample card (not always present). Photo
of the Munchkins today (the actors that played in the
Wizard of Oz). The gift of life - Organ transplants,
includes Michael Scozzaro, Tommy Warren, Joyce Willig.
The story of Gail Farrow, AIDS victim. Photo essay on
frost, snow and ice.
EXC - $35
Life Magazine January
1999 : Cover - Special
Issue - 1998 The Year in Pictures, collector's
edition. Heroes of the year, including Mark McGwire
and Sammy Sosa, Katie Couric, Dennis Slamon, Louis Ignarro,
Morris Dees, Ellie Dahmer, Sang Lan, Winston Sie, Shirley
Bumgardner, Margaret Rowe, John Glenn, Keith Ursel,
Muhammad Ali. Sequels to 1998 stories, McCaughey septuplets,
Hensel twins and others. A dozen endangered plants and
animals making a comeback. Funny photo of flamingos
in the men's room during Hurricane Georges. Photo of
the rusty bumper of a truck - gruesome reminder of the
James Byrd Jr. murder story. Winners of "I want
to Meet" contest. Vikki Sloviter with Betty Tisdale.
Hope Lobkowiez with dolphins. Amanda Edmundson with
Rosie O'Donnell. A story doesn't appear in LIFE because
Chuck Hirshberg and Susan WAtts are kidnapped in Honduras
and lose the film and notes. Two page color Milk ad
with the cast from Frazier. Neat two page State Farm
Insurance ad with golfer Mildred "Babe" Didrikson
Zaharias, vintage photo. Sad two page photo of starving
children in Sudan. Wild two page photo of devastation
in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch. Yankees Chuck Knoblauch,
Joe Girardi, and Mriano Rivera celebrate a record 125
wins. Two page Chevrolet ad with hockey player Cammi
Granato. Runner Florence Griffith Joyner dies in her
sleep at age 38.
EXC - $45
G - $25
Life Magazine February
1999 : Cover - Queen Noor and King Hussein of
Jordan, including photo of them on a motorcycle. The
Science of Love : what researchers now know about how
we fall in love and why we stay in love. Sobriety High
- where troubled teens get a clean start, incluldes
Simone Simon, Samantha Seul, Barrett Benson, Seth Redmond,
Judi Hanson, Megan Carruth, Lior Sztainer, Andrew Rodriguez,
Andrew Pratt, and others. Helicopter named Bubba tops
off the West Baden Springs Hotel. Getting roses from
the grower to the lover. Blind rock climber Erik Weihenmayer.
Life in capitalist china. Sarah Knauss, at 118, is the
world's oldest living person. Small photo of Gerald
and Zita McNicholl in West Cork, Ireland, 1940. Two
page photo of Moo Dang jumping rope in Thailand, brass
neck coils, Kayan ethnic group. Very crowded photo from
Dino Beach Water Park in Shanghai, China, plus other
photos of modern life in China. A day in the life of
war reporter Christiane Amanpour. The article on love
includes Nancy & Carroll O'Connor, Mary Tyler Moore
& Robert Levine, Alan & Denise Jackson, Kirk
& Anne Douglas, Mavis & Jay Leno, George &
Barbara Bush, Darryl & Charisse Strawberry, Mary
& Mike Wallace, Al & Tipper Gore. The business
of roses. The mountain lion and cubs.
EXC - $35
G - $13 |
