Elvis Presley archival photos: See rock ’n’ roll legend’s life at Graceland and beyond

Undat­ed pic­ture of Elvis Pres­ley, born in Tupe­lo, Miss., on Jan. 8,1935. Pres­ley died on Aug. 16, 1977, in Mem­phis, Tenn.

Elvis Pres­ley with Debra Paget on the set of ‘Love Me Ten­der’ in August 1956.

Elvis Pres­ley tries on clothes in Decem­ber 1962 at Lan­sky’s Men’s Store in Mem­phis, Tenn. Bernard Lan­sky, whose fam­i­ly oper­at­ed the shop on Beale Street, helps him. Pres­ley pur­chased clothes at Lan­sky’s through­out his career

Elvis Pres­ley dances with 12-year-old Bren­da Lee back­stage at the Ryman Audi­to­ri­um in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1957.

Elvis fid­dles with an elec­tric bass inside Grace­land in this pho­to­graph pub­lished March 7, 1965 in the first issue of Mid-South, the now-defunct Sun­day mag­a­zine of The Com­mer­cial Appeal. Elvis had mis­giv­ings about allow­ing pic­tures to be made inside his home. “It’s not that I don’t want pic­tures,” he said. “You know what I mean. Some peo­ple might think I am look­ing for pub­lic­i­ty or try­ing to exploit my home. I cer­tain­ly don’t want any­one to think that.”

Elvis Pres­ley pos­es with one of his cars out­side Grace­land in this pho­to­graph pub­lished March 7, 1965 in the first issue of Mid-South, the now-defunct Sun­day mag­a­zine of The Com­mer­cial Appeal. Elvis com­plained of the long ses­sions with pho­tog­ra­phers mak­ing movie pub­lic­i­ty stills: “I try to cut the time down to three or four hours, but some­times you have to pose for six or eight. A man only has so many dif­fer­ent smiles, and I don’t have many.”

Elvis Pres­ley holds his “Elvis Gold­en Records” vinyl after his mil­i­tary phys­i­cal in Mem­phis, Tenn., in Jan­u­ary 1957.

Elvis Pres­ley fills out paper­work dur­ing the pre-intro­duc­tion to the U.S. Army in Mem­phis, Tenn., cir­ca 1957

Ann Mar­gret and Elvis Pres­ley pose in 1964 for a pub­lic­i­ty pho­to for their film “Viva Las Vegas”.

Elvis Pres­ley being fed a mouth­ful of wed­ding cake by his bride Priscil­la at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas

Elvis Pres­ley, 33, and his wife Priscil­la, 22, leave Bap­tist Hos­pi­tal with their new baby daugh­ter Lisa-Marie in Mem­phis, Tenn., Feb. 2, 1968.

Elvis Pres­ley points to Welsh enter­tain­er Tom Jones’ wrist as his wife Priscil­la Pres­ley looks on in Las Vegas, Nev., July 1, 1971

Elvis Pres­ley, pos­es with his house guests, Kathy Gabriel, 19, left, and Han­neri Melch­er, 20, in Mem­phis, Tenn., Dec. 27, 1957. Melch­er, Miss Aus­tria 1957, met Elvis in Las Vegas in Novem­ber 1957, and vis­it­ed Grace­land at Christ­mas time with her room­mate, 1957’s Miss Ohio, Kathy Gabriel as they were on their way to New York. Elvis had just received news of a 60-day draft exten­sion to March 20.

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Maid of Cot­ton Patri­cia Cow­den (left) and Mem­phis Cot­ton Car­ni­val Queen Clare Mal­lo­ry give Elvis Pres­ley roy­al kiss­es before the singer walks on stage before a packed Ellis Audi­to­ri­um audi­ence in Mem­phis, Tenn., May 15, 1956

Elvis Pres­ley and wife, Priscil­la, stand as he is intro­duced at a lun­cheon at the Hol­i­day Inn River­mont in Mem­phis, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1971. Pres­ley was being hon­ored by the Jaycees of Amer­i­ca as one of the Out­stand­ing Young Men In Amer­i­ca. Seat­ed at left fore and applaud­ing is William N. Mor­ris, for­mer sher­iff of Shel­by Coun­ty. Seat­ed and applaud­ing to right of Priscil­la (and star­ing at cam­era) is Red West. Char­lie Hodge is clap­ping at left next to Mor­ris. Ver­non Pres­ley is at low­er right cor­ner.

Gen­eroso Pope looks at a copy of the Nation­al Enquir­er’s leg­endary front page pho­to of Elvis Pres­ley in his cof­fin. A team of 25 edi­tors and reporters fanned out in August 1977 in Mem­phis to secure the prize. They final­ly found a young cousin of Elvis’ who agreed to take the snap with a spe­cial cam­era. He and an uncle flew into the Lan­tana air­port on a pri­vate jet to deliv­er it to the Enquir­er.