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Seated close to the evening fire, Gray Mountain, 91, tells his grandchildren legends about the early days of the Navajo people. history

‘A Country Within a Country’: Inside the Navajo Nation, 1948

Macy's caters to customers during the biggest holiday shopping season, 1948. lifestyle

How Black Friday Looked Before It Was Called Black Friday

82 year old tightrope walker Ivy Baldwin at Boulder Dam, Colorado, 1948. people

Old Man and the Wire: When an 82-Year-Old Walked The Tightrope

Jackson Hole 1948 destinations

Jackson Hole in its Dude Ranch Days

arts & entertainment

LIFE With Dizzy Gillespie: Rare and Classic Portraits of a Playful Genius

Keedoozle, a fully automated grocery store, Memphis, Tenn., 1948. people

Keedoozle, We Hardly Knew Ye: Remembering America’s First Automated Grocery

A man flies off a trampoline, Santa Monica, 1948. lifestyle

The Magic of the Off-Screen Trampoline: A Young Man Soars Above The Beach

Route 30 Nebraska, USA, 1948. destinations

Road Trip! U.S. Route 30 in 1948

Eiffel Tower, winter 1948 destinations

The Eiffel Tower: A Paris Landmark Captured in a Classic Photo

President Harry Truman jubilantly holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In fact, Truman handily beat New York governor Thomas Dewey in the tight 1948 presidential election. history

Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’

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Sour Power: Here’s to a Little Boy Who Loved to Eat Lemons

Number 161 Norman Teleford streamlines himself during a motorcycle race at Daytona Beach, March 1948. arts & entertainment

LIFE at Daytona: Motorcycle Madness on the Florida Sands

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