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LIFE Magazine Collection, selections

In 2005 International Center of Photography (ICP) received a donation of over 1,000 prints from the The Time Picture Collection, Inc. This body of work has greatly augmented the collection's holdings of diverse photojournalism. This selection represents a small sample of this major collection.


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103 Items
  • [Maude giving shot to young girl with hand over face, others waiting]
  • [Maude gesturing, husband holding blue print, clinic under construction]
  • [Maude wiping head of young boy with distended belly, older boy watching]
  • [man seated on bed, Maude talking to woman through window]
  • [Nurse-midwife Maude Callen with finger on bandage of newborn's navel having cut umbilical cord.]
  • [Maude Callen in her health clinic under construction]
  • [Maude and doctor examining emaciated woman-side view]
  • [Maude at table with lamp, wearing rubber gloves]
  • [Maude examining pregnant woman in screened area in church, others waiting-overview]
  • Critically ill child about to receive blood transfusion from photographer Smith. The child later died
  • [Maude followed by a woman, hiking through forest]
  • [Maude carrying crying baby up brick steps]
  • [Close-up of newborn, midwife's hands and scissors cutting umbilical cord]
  • Newborn Baby in Makeshift Crib near Cold Stove
  • Nurse Midwife -- Store-bought food donated by Maude fascinated youngsters outside log cabin. She frequently finds families with only two or three items on their diet, recently found this one living entirely on corn.
  • [Nurse-midwife Maude Callen, outside, giving inoculation to little boy.]
  • [Nurse midwife Maude Callen, outside, inoculating wailing boy.]
  • [crippled girl crossing yard to meet Maude by her car]
  • [baby lying on scale]
  • [Nurse Midwife -- 4 a.m. as hard labor begins, the face of Alice Cooper seems to sum up all the suffering of every woman who has ever borne a child.]
  • [newborn infant being presented to Alice Cooper]
  • Nurse Midwife -- Extra duty assumed by Maude includes cashing of relief checks and dealing with store-keepers for several people who are mentally incompetent or, like this man, blind.
  • [Nurse-midwife Maude Callen helping a man into wheelchair.]
  • [Segregated entrances at Berkeley County Health Center, where Nurse midwife Maude Callen brings her patients.]
  • [Alice Cooper standing unhappily at window, midwife comforting her]
  • [Nurse-midwife Maude Callen examining throat glands of young boy]
  • [Nurse-midwife Maude Callen holding arm of toddler while inoculating her.]
  • [midwife helping Alice Cooper onto bed, plate on bed]
  • [Alice Cooper with arm flung out, midwife holding her hand]
  • [Peasants listen to land distribution speech, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Carlos Manuel Pellecer, union organizer, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Portrait of Eva Perón being hoisted before rally at which Juan Perón announced and withdrew his resignation, Buenos Aires]
  • [Minor C.G.T. union officials march toward Plaza de Maya in support of Juan Perón, Buenos Aires]
  • [Scorched male mannequin clad in dark business suit standing in desert 7,000 ft. from the 44th nuclear test explosion, a day after the blast, indicating that humans could be burnt but still alive, Yucca Flat, Nevada]
  • [Firefighters aiming high-pressure water hoses at civil rights demonstrator, Birmingham, Alabama]
  • Group of prisoners of all nations. On this side of barbed wire is one of sick prisoners. They were forced to wear a triangle of red on their left side with a letter forth nationality. I for Italian, T. for Tczechoslovakia etc.
  • Victim of Malnutrition at Buchenwald
  • [Karen, a heroin addict and prostitute, peddling drugs at lamppost on Broadway and West 71st Street, New York]
  • [Dam workers with family members including blond child making face, enjoying beer at local bar]
  • Fort Peck
  • 42nd Street as viewed from Weehawken
  • [Model Cloris Leachman (R) wearing "radio ear", a pocket-sized receiving set concealed under her dress that connects to an earplug which permits her to listen to directions from the NBC control booth while performing in front of a camera.]
  • [Woman checking eyelid in trick mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theater, Times Square, New York]
  • [Mary Ann Vecchio grieving over body of college student Jeffrey Glenn Miller shot by National Guardsman during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University, Ohio]
  • [Candidate for Congress, John Kennedy, 29 sitting under campaign poster, next to photos of his parents a room at the Bellevue Hotel during his campaign for MA-Rep for the 11th district]
  • Gandhi Colony, Twilight prayer meeting
  • Gold miners, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • [80-year old Annie Mahaffey, who lives with her son George and his family, sitting in chair listening to daughter-in-law on telephone to her mother who lives alone]
  • [Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper hunting, Sun Valley, Idaho]
  • [Minnijean Brown, 15, and eight others of the "Little Rock Nine" with members of the 101st Division, Airborne Command, ready to protect them as they desegregate Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas]
  • [Soldier embracing his girlfriend while saying goodbye in Pennsylvania station before returning to duty after a brief furlough]
  • [Soldier consoling his weeping girlfriend while saying goodbye in Pennsylvania Station before returning to duty after a brief furlough]
  • [Soldier tenderly embracing his girlfriend while saying goodbye in Pennsylvania Station before retuning to duty after a brief furlough]
  • Megalopolis
  • Coming out of the Powderly mine near Carbondale, Pa.
  • Elam Grain Co. Grain elevator
  • [Man standing next to statue with chalked protest message outside city hall, Johannesburg]
  • [Carpenter Phillip Mbhele wearing "We don't want passes" tag speaking against the Afrikaner's pass system that requires all native South Africans to carry one or more passes, Johannesburg]
  • [Protestors carrying "Stop Police Terror" banner and listening to speaker during a communist meeting, Johannesburg]
  • Fashion Controversy - full sleeved suit: The big sleeve came in for emphasis and even for exaggeration in Paris.
  • [Woman next to meat store in Harlem]
  • Orson Welles
  • Typical national guardsman
  • 37 mm gun obsolete to be replaced by larger auto tank guns.
  • Three generations of Welsh miners
  • [girl and man in audience on wooden benches]
  • Guardia Civil, Spain
  • The Spinner
  • [German Army parading through the streets of Prague after invading the country]
  • Sailor kissing his girlfriend goodbye in Pennsylvania Station before returning to duty after a brief furlough.
  • Soldier tenderly kissing his girlfriend while saying goodbye in Pennsylvania Station before returning to duty after a brief furlough.
  • Sailor Fred McDow passionately kissing his girlfriend Ethel Huseland goodbye, as a friend stands by watching uncomfortably, in Pennsylvania Station before returning to duty after a 66-hr. leave.
  • [Amelia Earhart]
  • [Eugene Vidal and Amelia Earhart, Los Angeles]
  • [Amelia Earhart with camera]
  • [Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, Natal, Brazil]
  • [Amelia Earhart at the controls of her Lockheed Electra, Oakland, California]
  • [Amelia Earhart]
  • [Amelia Earhart]
  • Migratory field worker's home on the edge of a pea field. The family lived here through the winter. Imperial Valley, California. March 1937.
  • Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Southern California.
  • Shaving on the Road, California
  • [Union steward John Lombardo (L) going over production data with Edward O. Kolbert (R) and unidentified man at American Lead Pencil Company]
  • [Union steward John Lombardo (L) speaking with union president Irving Zerehner at American Lead Pencil Company]
  • Basic White Dress
  • [Katharine Hepburn]
  • [Twenty-two students cramming into a telephone booth to try and establish a stacking record, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California]
  • [Businessman smoking pipe as others read aboard the Pennsylvania's Afternoon Congressional (formerly known as Congressional Limited) commuter train]
  • The Lone Ranger, played by Actor Earl Grasser is WXYZ's most popular character. The enthusiastic idolatry of Detroit children forces him to wear a black mask to work
  • Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, New York Socialite
  • Rapport
  • Eisenhower on back of train during '52 whistle stop tour campaign, in either Illinois or Michigan, in early October
  • "Once more, the head of the nation is working with all his might and main to restore and to uphold the morals of democracy."
  • Esoteric, New Orleans Born Truman Capote, 22, writes haunting short stories. His novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," will be out this fall
  • [Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, discussing theory of matter in terms of space with Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey]
  • Close-up of Howard Hughes as he sat at the pilot's controls of his 200-ton flying boat in L.A. Harbor. Cockpit and controls don't show in picture
  • Alberto Giacometti is framed by the reaching hand of one of his elogated sculptures
  • [Model showing off slacks while reading a book as shoeshine polishes her new loafer shoes in Washington Square Park, New York]
  • Pollock Drools Enamel Paint on Canvas
  • [Portrait of English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson]
  • [Woman wearing Dior suit]
  • [Marian Anderson and her mother on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after her Easter concert, Washington, DC]
  • [Crowd at Marian Anderson's Easter concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC]