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.

6 days ago · Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its June 4, 1945 issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived …

It was a bold notion to name a magazine LIFE. The word life, after all, encompasses everything. The major events that define generations, the fleeting moments that comprise the everyday, the feelings …

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 and online: …

LIFE photographs -- resembling every war-battered panorama from Verdun to Vietnam -- made in September, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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

Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.

From pets to wildlife, explore how our relationship with animals has changed - and remained the same - throughout the 20th Century.

With more than ten million original prints, negatives, slides, and transparency shots, see why LIFE's photo archive will always remain timeless.

Explore the world one picture at a time with these beautiful and inspiring pictures from across the globe - near and far, popular and unknown.