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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
 

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Contents

Los Angeles button club holds its annual show
14
LOS ANGELES button club
Lady constable
19
Addie Louise DICKERSON, Policewomen, Gregg County (Tex.)
Japan signs the surrender
27
World War, 1939-1945 (Peace, Japan)
U.S. occupies Japan
29
Douglas MacArthur; 1880-1964
What ended the war
36
Atomic bombs
State fair
79
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Future Toledo
87
Toledo (Ohio) (City planning)
Coronagraph
97
Coronagraph, Sun (Corona)
Detect and collect
103
Radio broadcasting
Japanese nation
109
Japan (Civilization)

National security
40
United States (Defenses)
Clans gather
43
the Young Pretender CHARLES Edward, Costume (Scotland), Scotland (History)
Young tennis stars
49
Tennis
Mission to Japan
55
Matthew Calbraith Perry; 1794-1858, United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854), Japan (Description and travel)
Italy: war and its wreckage
69
Edward Laning; 1906-., Thomas CRAIG, World War, 1939-1945 (Art, Italy)
Lord Keynes
118
John Maynard Keynes; 1883-1946
Life visits New Harmony
133
Robert Dale Owen; 1801-1877, George Rapp; 1757-1847, New Harmony (Ind.)
Success story
140
Nancy Anne GUILD
Underwater battle
146
Crayfish, Turtles

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