life:

May 20, 1908: Jimmy Stewart is born.
For its September 24, 1945, cover story, LIFE Magazine’s Peter Stackpole followed Stewart around his Pennsylvania hometown, chronicling what it looked like when the Hollywood star returned home a war hero. (Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Read more about the story, and see the photos here.
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mar-i-a:

Teens selecting music on a jukebox (1950s)
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collective-history:

A Young Woman Jumps Over a Puddle (1930)
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life:

Not published in LIFE. Gay rights event, 1971.
In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.
Read more here.
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life:

The regal Ella Fitzgerald, backstage before singing at a “Birthday Salute” in honor of JFK at Madison Square Garden, New York, May 19, 1962.
See more photos here.
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