The editors of LIFE combed the archives to find photos for 'A Story of America in 100 Photographs.' To view their selections—and to order a copy—check out: history archives
Shirley Temple celebrated her eighth birthday at 20th Century Fox in 1936, when, in the middle of the Great Depression, she was the biggest box office star in America.A Story of America in 100 PhotographsDmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith CorporationThe following is from the introduction to the special issue, LIFE: A Story of America in 100 Photographs,A great photograph tells not one story but many, through what it plainly reveals and what it suggests.
If a single photo—and the sentences nestled beside it—carries so many strands of meaning, then so does a collection of photos, bearing a narrative that is at once available in discreet pieces and as a whole. This collection. This narrative. The U.S. flag adds a 49th star. Moving trucks fill suburban driveways. Route 66 invites travelers west. Disneyland opens. John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline attend his inaugural ball. Marines in Vietnam carry off wounded comrades.
It has been said that you don’t take a photograph, you simply borrow it, nabbing a bit of history, adding those hints of possibility, so as to stand, looking forward or back, on the threshold.Shirley Temple celebrated her eighth birthday at 20th Century Fox in 1936, when, in the middle of the Great Depression, she was the biggest box office star in America.Tears streamed down the cheeks of accordion-playing Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson as President Franklin D.
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