Life Year 1940 Magazine Back Issues
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- Queen Elizabeth
- January 1, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Great Britain's Queen
- Bowdoin House Party
- January 8, 1940
- 10 Cents
- USC's Ralph Vaughn
- January 15, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Best Basketball
- Dutch East Indies
- January 22, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Starlet Lana Turner
- January 29, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Swedish Army Pilots
- February 5, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Floral Valentine Hat
- February 12, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Romanian Royalty
- February 19, 1940
- 10 Cents
- King Of Romania & Heir
- Houston Drive-In
- February 26, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Roadside Service
- Sailor Hats
- March 4, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Spring Sailor
- French Sentry
- March 11, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Chorus Girl
- March 18, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Sir Neville Henderson
- March 25, 1940
- War's First Memoirs
- By Sir Nevile Henderson, Last British Ambassador To Berlin
- N.Y. Giant Rookie Rucker
- April 1, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Spring Training: Rookie Rucker
- Anna Neagle
- April 8, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Training Youth
- April 15, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Fancy Ranch Duds
- April 22, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Cude Outfit
- Winston Churchill
- April 29, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Britain's Warlord
- Royal Air Force -Gunner
- May 6, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Silk Shawls In Fashion
- May 13, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Shawls Again
- Weygand: Commander In Chief Of The Theater Of Operations
- The Eastern Mediterranean
- May 20, 1940
- 10 Cents
- German Invader
- May 27, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Statue Of Liberty
- June 3, 1940
- 10 Cents
- America And The World
- Emperor Hirohito
- June 10, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Emperor Of Japan
- GM's Knudsen
- June 17, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Industrial Commander Knudsen
- Italy's Amry Chief
- June 24, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Red Cross Meeting
- July 1, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Red Cross Girl
- Admiral Stark
- July 8, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Chief Of Naval Operations
- Rita Hayworth
- July 15, 1940
- Picnic Time
- U.S. Tank Commander
- July 22, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Girl Lifeguard
- July 29, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Woman On Sailboat
- August 5, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Vice-President Nominee McNary
- August 12, 1940
- 10 Cents
- U.S. Trains Parachutists
- August 19, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Jasper National Park
- August 26, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Boy And Girl In Rockies
- Dionne's Communion
- September 2, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Quins First Communion
- Summer Success : Carol Bruce
- September 9, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Flight Across America
- September 16, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Child In Hospital
- September 23, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Air-Raid Victim
- Wendell Wilkie
- September 30, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Willkie On Campaign
- Gary Cooper
- October 7, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Jinx Falkenburg
- October 14, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Football Flowers
- Sweater Season
- October 21, 1940
- 10 Cents
- U.S. Navy
- October 28, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Voters Rally
- November 4, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Democracy : 50,000,000 Voters
- Michigan's Great Harmon
- November 11, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Roosevelt Wins Third Term
- November 18, 1940
- 10 Cents
- The Winner
- Fur Coat
- November 25, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Free Balloonist
- December 2, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Ginger Rogers
- December 9, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Greek Soldier
- December 16, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Party Season
- December 23, 1940
- Party Time
- 10 Cents
- British In Egypt
- December 30, 1940
- 10 Cents
- Britain's Desert Fighters
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Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the most popular magazines in the nation, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population.
