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Belmont Park is one of America’s grandest race tracks, and its 1.5-mile oval is also the largest in North America. In September 2026

In its Jan. 1,1951 issue LIFE ran a story entitled “Apprentice Goddesses” about a dozen young actresses that Hollywood was hopin...

Looking back across the decades, the story on Merry Mites clothing that appeared in the March 15, 1948 issue of LIFE is chiefy notable for the adorable photos produced when LIFE staff photogtapher Nina Leen aimed her lens at an unusually young group of models. Leen had done ...

If you want to know why the environmental movement became a powerful force in the second half of the 20th century, look no further than then the tragedy that took place in the mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948. Twenty people died, the kind of total you might associate with a major industrial explosion. But the killer here was quieter—a

In its December 2, 1940 issue, LIFE ran a long photo essay celebrating small-town Saturday nights. The town the magazine visited was Franklin, Indiana, which back then had a population of a little more than 6,000 people.

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