Photo Essays

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: LIFE With Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, 1956
Before William and Kate, before Charles and Di, before Liz and Dick (I and II), before any of the “storybook” weddings of the past several decades, there was the...

Marian Anderson and the Concert That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
“A voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years.” — Arturo Toscanini to the American contralto Marian Anderson Born in Philadelphia in 1897, Marian...

LIFE With Ali and Frazier: A Photographer Recalls the ‘Fight of the Century’
After refusing to register for the draft in 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight championship title and endured a forced layoff from the ring for...

The Murals of Philadelphia
A public art project which encourages local artists to create works utilizing the city's architecture has beautified the City of Brotherly Love and created an...

"Republican Convention, Philadelphia 1948"
A look back at the Republican convention from 1948

Finale in Philadelphia
a TIME.com Campain 2000 Photo Essay

Being Benjamin Franklin
See pictures of the Founding Father from Philadelphia

Cancer Survivors' Inspirational Stories
Participants at a Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG Challenge in Philadelphia reflect on ways their battle with the disease has changed their lives. Photographs...

Cezanne and Beyond
A new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how the French painter's influence endured for more than a century, making him "the Master of us all,"...

Behind the Scenes on Obama's Train
TIME photographer Callie Shell travels with the President-elect on a symbolic train ride from Philadelphia to Washington

LIFE’s Best Convention Photos: The Democrats
[NOTE: With a few small but critical differences, this introduction resembles that written for another, very similar gallery on LIFE.com — namely, "LIFE's Best...

The (Darth) Vader Project: Revenge of the Artists
Painted and adorned in all sorts of ways, 100 helmets shaped like the Star Wars villain's costume are being auctioned in Philadelphia


