Time.com Photo Essays
LIFE at West Point, 1936
The first issue of a magazine — especially a magazine that hopes to help define the era in which it lives — the first issue is always a big deal. It sets the...
Hard Days, Wild Nights: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936
“If any Charter Subscriber is surprised by what turned out to be the first story in this first issue of LIFE,” the magazine’s editors wrote in the Nov. 23, 1936,...
