How much have women changed in 80 years? A lot. And in some ways not much at all. The recent discovery in a Chicago theater of a 1930s clutch purse is a time-capsule glimpse into a night out for a ...

Caption from LIFE. This is ideal figure that modern women want. Caption from LIFE. This is ideal figure that modern women want. Detail of model June Cox's hair. Twenty years before Monroe stood over a ...

“A fortnight ago in Los Angeles, those romantics who still believe in nursery rhymes and the dignity of womanhood got a rude shock,” LIFE Magazine brayed in a November 1939 issue. The shock in ...

When Puerto Rico became a colony of the US in 1898, much of its population was living in poverty. The US government and Puerto Rico's appointed government instituted an economic development strategy ...

In the late 1930s, when she was photographing her monumental ”Changing New York” series, Berenice Abbott told a senior official from the Federal Art Project that she had taken some photographs in the ...

Mrs. George T. Lancaster of East Belleair Boulevard noticed several of her Rhode Island broilers have gone missing during the past week and decided to keep an eye on the remainder of the flock to put ...

This Mother's Day I'm reminded of my own mom, Nancy Hill, and the incredible generation of women of which she is a part. They lived through the Great Depression, witnessing their families' struggles ...

Snow White was a reflection of American women during the 1930s. Premieres Sep. 14 & 15. "Snow White is the perfect embodiment of 1930s culture," says art historian Carmenita Higginbotham. In this ...