After looking up some research on Life Magazine I found out that it was published for 53 years as a light-entertainment magazine, with jokes, social commentary and heavy illustrations. Being born on January 4th, 1883 in a New York City artists studio. Two men started this as a partnership. John Mitchel and Andrew Miller, Mitchell was a 37 year old illustrator who used a $10,000 inheritance to invest in the magazine serving as it's publisher
It featured some of the greatest cartoonists and writers of its era, which included Norman Rockwell, Harry Oliver, and Charles Dana.
The "Lucy" Life was the first all-photographic American news magazine. It sold more then 13.5 million copies a week at one point and was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages.
One of the best-know pictures printed in this magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedts photograph of a nurse in a sailor's arms. This picture was taken August 27th, 1945.
Life was a very highly rated and successful magazine for two generations before economics and changing tastes relinquished it to amount to not much. But the magazine has been reinstated as of 2007.
**Pictures were Life's most compelling feature!
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