Photo Essays
LIFE With the Boy Scouts: Photos From a Time of Change, 1971
The Boy Scouts of America is one of those enduring institutions woven so deeply into the fabric of so many lives that it sometimes feels like it’s been around as...
Photographer Spotlight: Martha Holmes
Martha Holmes (b. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7, 1923) was on the staff of LIFE for five years in the 1940s and worked for three decades as a freelancer for the...
In Praise of … Wait for It … the Postal Service
The words have been referenced, mangled, misremembered, celebrated and (of course) parodied for decades, and while few people remember the full, accurate quote,...
