Research Catalog

Title

Life.

Publication

[Chicago, Ill.] : [Time Inc.], [1936-]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Location

• Offsite

Format

• BINDERY COPY + BOUND VOLUME HOLDINGS

Call Number

• *DA+

Library Has

• [*DA+ (Life)] 1(1936)-73(1972); new ser., 1(1978)-23:6(2000) Incomplete.
• Lacking: v. 24, Feb. 1948; v. 28, May 1950; v. 33, Sept. 1952.

Notes

• Ceased with vol. 23, no. 6 (May 2000).

Details

Additional Authors

Luce, Henry R., 1898-1967.

Publication Date

[Vol. 1, no. 1] (Nov. 23, 1936)-[v. 73, no. 25] (Dec. 29, 1972); v. 1 (Oct. 1978)-

Description

volumes : illustrations

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund, named in honor of the founder of Reader's Digest

Alternative Title

• Life (Chicago)
• Life magazine

Subjects

• History
• History > Periodicals
• Periodicals
• Current events > Periodicals

Genre/Form

Periodicals.

Note

• Editors: 1936-Sept. 1961, H.R. Luce and others.
• Title from cover.
• Published: New York, NY : Time Inc., <Mar. 1992->; Life Inc., Oct. 2004-

Numbering (note)

• Some errors in numbering.
• Suspended with May 2000; resumed publication in Oct. 2004 as a supplement to U.S. newspapers.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Vols. 7 (July 1939)-32 (June 1952). 1 v.

Linking Entry (note)

• Augmented during the Persian Gulf War, 1991 by: Life in time of war.

Source of Description (note)

• Latest issue consulted

Call Number

*DA+ (Life)

ISSN

0024-3019

LCCN

37008367

OCLC

1643958

Title

Life.

Imprint

[Chicago, Ill.] : [Time Inc.], [1936-]

Current Frequency

Weekly, Oct. 2004-

Former Frequency

Weekly, 1936-1978?

Monthly, 1978-1992?

Monthly except semimonthly in Mar., <Mar. 1992-2004>

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Numbering

Some errors in numbering.

Suspended with May 2000; resumed publication in Oct. 2004 as a supplement to U.S. newspapers.

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Indexes

Vols. 7 (July 1939)-32 (June 1952). 1 v.

Linking Entry

Augmented during the Persian Gulf War, 1991 by: Life in time of war.

Local Note

Part of Beat collection of books, magazines, broadsides, photographs, ephemera, and manuscripts purchased from the Beat scholar Ann Charters in 1994.

The 6 issues of Life collected by Ann Charters feature the following stories: Big Day for Bards at Bay (on the trial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti for the sale of obscene literature, chiefly Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl and Other Poems"), with photos of Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, William Everson, Michael McClure, and Kenneth Rexroth, vol. 43, no. 11 (Sept. 9, 1957) -- Barry Farrell, The Guru Comes to Kansas (on Allen Ginsberg), vol. 60, no. 21 (May 27, 1966) -- [Photomontage of photographs of Harvard student protests, taken by students, and of traditional Harvard scenes, by Life photographer John Loengard; table of contents title: Rampage at Fair Harvard], vol. 66, no. 16 (April 25, 1969) -- William Barry Furlong, The Straights vs. the Chicago 8, vol. 67, no. 15 (Oct. 10, 1969) -- Ken Kesey, Alaska, the Point of It, [n.s.] vol. 5, no. 11 (Nov. 1982) -- Life’s 100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century, in which Jack Kerouac is the only Beat listed, with photo of Kerouac, vol. 13, no. 12 (Fall 1990).

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Added Author

Luce, Henry R., 1898-1967.

Charters, Ann Former owner

Abbreviated Title

Life (Chicago)

Continues

Life (New York, N.Y.)

Other Form:

Online version: Life (Chicago, Ill. : Online) 2169-1576 (DLC) 2012203390 (OCoLC)51973582

Microfilm version: Life 0024-3019 (DLC)sn 86015487 (OCoLC)7062907

Related To

Life in time of war 1065-0822 (DLC) 92657289 (OCoLC)23166809

Research Call Number

*DA+ (Life) Library has: v. 1-73, Nov. 23, 1936-Dec. 1972; [new ser.], v. 1-23, no. 6; Oct. 1978-May 2000. This copy available for library photographic reproduction only. Also available on microfilm.

9-*DA+ (Life)

Berg Coll+ Beats Life 1957