Here, LIFE.com offers powerful pictures of the construction and earliest days of the Wall—photos that offer a glimpse into an era that today feels at once profoundly alien, and disturbingly ...

Each week we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "walls" and we begin with this taken by Ellie Watson near the Olympic Park in Stratford ahead of the London ...

It was probably used for kitchen scenes — in case the camera drifted too far to the ... On that wall, you’ll see a vintage Porsche ad, a baseball poster, a photo of an old horse and carriage ...