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Margaret Bourke-White's struggle with Parkinson's disease. lifestyle

The Fight: A Legendary LIFE Photographer Battles Parkinson’s, 1959

Scene inside a New York City speakeasy during Prohibition, 1933. destinations

Prohibition’s Last Call: Inside the Speakeasies of New York in 1933

Craftsmen work on a huge diorama prior to the opening of the 1939 Worlds Fair. history

‘The World of Tomorrow’: Scenes From the 1939 New York World’s Fair

The threatening storm rises above a farm near Hartman, Colo. Once range land, it lies almost ruined by wheat. Dust-choked corral and pump are land's tombstones. history

‘Plague Upon the Land’: Scenes From an American Dust Bowl, 1954

One-fourth of the Missouri River will run through this steel 'liner.' history

LIFE’s First Cover Story: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936

Margaret Bourke-White, 27, stands on the scaffolding enclosing the under-construction Chrysler Building in New York, 1931. history

“Great Lady With a Camera”: Margaret Bourke-White, American Original

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