The later covers of LIFE resemble nothing so much as the first covers of THE NEW YORKER. The magazines even overlapped in time, publishing many of the same artists months apart. Yet many LIFE covers looked totally unlike the cover of the preceding issue, or the next one; and sometimes not like anything ever published on any other magazine. It must have been a challenge to find it on the newsstand.
For a fuller discussion of LIFE, read the profile page. The first 80 volumes of the magazine are online at Hathi Trust.
In the period 1895-1920 a number of hardcover collections of material from the magazine were published, and sometimes turn up. In a couple of cases there were also regular magazine-like instalments of favorite images etc., and we try to include those as periodicals here. Here are some examples of the book versions, from Warren Bernard's collection as posted online by Christopher Wheeler.
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Life 1883 First Half Title Page
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Life 1883-01-04 001
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Life 1883-01-04a
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Life 1883-02-15
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Life 1883-07-05
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Life 1883-07-26
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Life 1883-08-16
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Life 1883-08-30
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Life 1883-09-06
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Life 1883-09-13
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Life 1883-09-20
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Life 1883-10-11
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Life 1883-10-18
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Life 1883-11-22
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Life 1883-11-29
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Life 1883-12-20
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Life 1883-12-27
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Life 1884-01-10
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Life 1884-01-17
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Life 1884-01-24
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Life 1884-02-07
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Life 1884-02-14
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Life 1884-02-21
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Life 1884-02-28
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Life 1884-03-13
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Life 1884-03-20
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Life 1884-04-03
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Life 1884-04-10
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Life 1884-05-01
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Life 1884-05-22
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Life 1884-06-19
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Life 1884-07-17
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Life 1885 First Half Title Page
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Life 1885-01-01
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Life 1885-01-15
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Life 1885-01-22
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Life 1885-04-09
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Life 1887-01-06
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Life 1887-01-13
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Life 1887-01-20
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Life 1887-01-27
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Life 1887-02-10
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Life 1887-02-17
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Life 1887-02-24
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Life 1887-03-03
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Life 1887-03-10
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Life 1887-03-17
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Life 1887-03-24
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Life 1887-04-07
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Life 1887-04-14
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Life 1887-04-21
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Life 1887-04-28
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Life 1887-05-05
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Life 1887-05-12
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Life 1887-05-19
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Life 1887-05-26
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Life 1887-06-02
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Life 1887-06-09
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Life 1887-06-16
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Life 1887-06-23
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Life 1887-06-30
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Life 1887-07-07
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Life 1887-07-14
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Life 1887-07-21
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Life 1887-07-28
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Life 1887-08-04
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Life 1887-08-11
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Life 1887-08-18
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Life 1887-08-25
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Life 1887-09-01
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Life 1887-09-08
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