Welk’s manner was as easygoing as his music. The photos by LIFE’s Allan Grant capture Welk in all his geniality, whether he is handing out cookies to the band, making his signature cork …

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

Sometimes LIFE’s photographers took its readers to a places they would never have thought to go—for example, a nightclub in Brussels during the waning days of World War II, and months …

The breadth of the GE operations underlines the great variety of activity that legendary LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt documented when he gained access to the General Electric …

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

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

Explore 1969 within the LIFE photography vault, one of the most prestigious & privately held archives from the US & around the World.

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 …

When LIFE magazine visited Big Sur in 1959, the Esalen Institute was three years from opening, but the coastal community had long been attracting free-thinking types.

Learn about Anthony Linck, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.