This photo gallery includes Elisofon’s historic shot as well as several of Duchamp’s more conventional appearances before the cameras of LIFE photographers.

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With all those young ones on the way, the LIFE story about this plan sounded a hopeful note: “Maine hopes its herd will be multiplied come spring.” The process took some effort.

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The following is adapted from the introduction to LIFE’s newcspecial issue 100 Photographs: The Most Important Pictures of All Time and the Stories Behind Them, available at newsstands and online:

Explore inauguration within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

In its Nov. 21, 1949 issue LIFE gave big play to a story centered around a Manhattan nightspot called the Latin Quarter, and breathlessly announced a trend in nightclub entertainment of “pretty girls who …

At its height, LIFE magazine’s incomparable images and essays reached 1 of 3 American readers. The original prints, negatives, and associated manuscripts remain in Dotdash Meredith’s LIFE Picture …

LIFE devoted nine pages to the ceremony, and four more to a story on the ruin left by the atomic bombs, headlined “What Ended the War.” The ceremony took 23 minutes and was broadcast on television.

Here’s how LIFE described the painting’s journey from Paris to Washington in December 1962. Surrounded by grandeur that would have done credit to Charles de Gaulle, she had travelled on the …