Cats Blackie & Brownie catching squirts of milk during milking at Arch Badertscher’s dairy farm in Fresno, California, 1954. (Nat Farbman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #cats #catsofinstagram
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LIFE legend Betty Grable was born 102 years ago today on December 18, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was an actress, dancer, singer and pin-up girl and at one point the highest paid woman in the mid 1940s. This image is an outtake from the June 7, 1943 feature: “BETTY GRABLE’S LEGS: They have now achieved stature of a major Hollywood landmark.” According to LIFE, “Other actresses with handsome legs have also gone far, but Betty has made the leg her private trademark.” An impression in concrete can be found at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. (Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #BettyGrable
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An outtake from the January 28, 1957 feature: “THE MANY USES OF WINTER: People all over find odd employment for an icy nuisance.” Pictured here is New Hampshire farmer Carl Fogg who is in the business of maple syrup. (Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #NewHampshire #Winter #TBT
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70 years ago this week, from the December 13, 1948 feature story in LIFE - CHRISTMAS AT MACY'S—"As becomes the world’s largest store, it is prodigious, furious and for cash only.“ This image ran in the story with the following caption: "Long slide from the 19th floor to the ground floor through Macy’s package chutes has been taken every working day for 26 years by Mike Reynolds, 53, whose job is to make sure that no bundles are sticking in chutes. Mike wears out a suit of coveralls every six weeks and slides about two miles every week in line of duty.” (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #Macys #NinaLeen
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From the August 8, 1949 fashion feature: “DIME-STORE FASHIONS—Five-and-ten jewelry and clothes are not only cheap but up-to-date.” According to LIFE, “To visitors from abroad one of the perennial marvels of America is the five-and-ten crammed with household articles. In recent years the dime stores have added to their accomplishments. They have proved as fast—and three to four times as cheap—as many a department store at copying simple fashions.” This photo opened the feature and includes an all-dime store outfit with a total cost of $4.17. (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #fashionfriday #vintagefashion #NinaLeen
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LIFE remembers the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush with an outtake from the November 5, 1971 feature story: “GEORGE BUSH RAN ALL THE WAY.” According to LIFE, as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, he set a “frenetic pace that some of his staff find hard to match” (Leonard McCombe—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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Bighorn Sheep in Yellowstone National Park, circa 1961 (George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #Yellowstone #sheepofinstagram
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LIFE legend Rita Moreno in an outtake from the March 1, 1954 LIFE cover story. In 1961 she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in West Side Story. She recently announced that she has signed on to be in the remake of the film directed by Steven Spielberg. (Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #WestSideStory #RitaMoreno
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” by LIFE legend Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway 71 years ago today on December 3, 1947. Starring Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter (pictured here in a scene performed in 1947) along with Jessica Tandy and Karl Malden. (Eliot Elisofon—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #LIFElegends MarlonBrando
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(L-R) Egyptian Princess Nasli Shah, Princess Sixte de Bourbon-Parme and Peter Zervudachi taking a walk in their fashionable best at a resort in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1947. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #fashionfriday #StMoritz
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Hark (left) and Ollie Hatfield, and their son, sitting on a porch in West Virginia, 1944. From the Tug Fork area, they are descendants from one of the families involved in the long-running (but long finished) Hatfield-McCoy feud. (Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #TBT
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Christina Goldsmith, daughter of top Weimaraner breeder, Mrs. Harold Goldsmith of Ridgefield, Connecticut, and her Weimaraner puppies in Ridgefield, CT, 1950. (Bernard Hoffman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #weimaraner #dogsofinstagram
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LIFE legends Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin sharing a laugh in a Los Angeles, CA recording studio in 1958. (Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #ratpack #1950s
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70 years ago this week, this image by the great Nina Leen appeared on the cover of the November 29, 1948 issue of LIFE magazine. According to LIFE, “The girl appearing on the cover of LIFE this week is named Georgia Hamilton. The dress in which she appears was named and designed by Christian Dior. It is called Abandon, a particularly appropriate title considering the shoulder treatment. The dress and also the hat (Carnegie) worn by Miss Hamilton comprise one of the new restaurant fashions, a fuller report on which appears on page 82. A fuller report on Miss. Hamilton would include facts that she is 23, married, a professional model, mother of a year-old-son, an ardent golfer and would-be actress.” (Nina Leen—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE #LIFEmagazine #NinaLeen
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Ragtime and jazz pianist Wally Rose (1913 - 1997) and his band perform at the Tin Angel, San Francisco, California, in October 1955. (Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #Jazz #SanFrancisco #LIFElegends
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