1950s

The final curtain has fallen on the legendary 'A Great Day in Harlem' photograph. Sonny Rollins, the last surviving jazz...

Harry Powers was a convicted serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia, in 1932. He lured his victims through...

Lanie Lane’s Toon Shop Nina Leen, 1953 Nina Leen, 1944 Will McBride, Listening to records in a record...

Jean Cocteau, Les enfants terribles (The Holy Terrors), 1929 “At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be...

Jazz journal, Sidney Bechet, September 1956 Louis...

. . . . In December 1958, right around Christmastime, LIFE magazine published a 200-page special issue on the glories and absurdities...

Caspar David Friedrich, Mondaufgang am Meer, 1822 “Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish...

Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records, covers by Alex Steinweiss, 1957 Alex Steinweiss was a graphic design artist known for inventing...

. "I was 25 and they were about 16. I could easily have been taken for one of them." "In...

"Listening to that?" said the woman, pointing with a smile to the radiogram. "That", said...