Pictures of the Day

A Bear Grows in Brooklyn: Portraits of Rosie, a Furry Star of the Forties
In the 1940s, an entertainment impresario named Stanley Beebe routinely walked his star, Rosie the bear, through the streets of New York, shuttling her to gigs at recording studios and arenas.

All Hail New York Taxis: Gotham Cabs and Cabbies of the 1940s
LIFE.com recalls the big, burly taxi cabs that prowled the streets of New York City in the 1940s, and the rough-looking, distinctive characters who drove them.

Father?s Day Special: LIFE With Famous Dads and Their Daughters
In a special Father's Day gallery, LIFE.com celebrates a uniquely intense, tender, exasperating, fraught and ? through it all ? loving familial bond with a series of classic portraits of famous dads and their daughters.

Tough Enough: Rare Photos of Ben Hogan?s Return to Golf, January 1950
As the 2013 U.S. Open gets underway at Merion in Ardmore, Pa., LIFE.com pays tribute to Ben Hogan's astonishing return to the links in January 1950, less than a year after a hellish car accident almost took his life.

Negative Feedback: The Trippy Eloquence of Damaged Photos
LIFE.com takes a look at some badly damaged negatives from a legendary assignment: Margaret Bourke-White's 'Fort Peck Dam' cover story for the debut issue of LIFE in 1936.

Liz Taylor and Richard Burton on the Set of ?Cleopatra?: Rare and Classic Photos
LIFE presents a series of photographs ? most of which never ran in LIFE ? made by photographer Paul Schutzer on the set of Cleopatra, which was released 50 years ago this week.

The Road Goes Ever On: Route 66 and the American Dream
In 1947, Andreas Feininger made the single most perfect photograph of the single most famous road in America: Route 66, the "Mother Road."

LIFE at the Drive-In: Photos of a Vanishing American Pastime
On the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in theater (June 6, 1933), LIFE offers a series of photos celebrating the ingenious confluence of two of America's abiding obsessions: movies and cars.

National Running Day: Portraits of Speed, Grace and Power
On National Running Day, LIFE.com offers photos by a pioneer of stroboscopic photography, Gjon Mili, celebrating the beauty, grace and power of the sport.

Hatred on the Home Front: The Detroit Race Riots, June 1943
Seventy years after race riots tore through Detroit -- "the arsenal of democracy" -- in the midst of World War II, LIFE.com offers a series of photos from a great American city in turmoil.