# The Forgotten Fifties: America's Decade from Look Magazine

Author James Conaway discussed his new book, "The Forgotten Fifties: America's Decade from the Archives of Look Magazine." The more than 4 million images in the Look Magazine Photograph Collection (1937-1971) comprise the largest single collection in the holdings of the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division. The 1950s was a transformative decade that included the Red Scare of Joseph McCarthy, the Korean War, "I Love Lucy," Brown v. Board of Education, the polio vaccine and Elvis Presley. For many Americans, the pages of Look defined the 1950s.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696724/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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