Google putting LIFE Magazine photo archives online

[Cousin Hepcat]

Incase you guys haven't seen this, thought you might be interested -

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.

The new service, available at http://images.google.com/hosted/life, debuted Tuesday with about 2 million photos. Eventually, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library so they can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection.

About 97 percent of Life's archives have not been publicly seen, according to Life.

The photos can be printed out for free as long as they aren't being used as part of an attempt to make money. Time Warner Inc., Life's parent company, hopes to make money by selling high-resolution, framed prints. The orders will be processed through Qoop.com.

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Did a search on "1938 fashions source:life", thought that might interest folks here for starters, here's the link - just put whatever you want into google search bar followed by "source:life"

http://images.google.com/images?&hl=en&q=1938+fashions+source:life&&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18

- CH

 

[Story]

Pretty neat site!

 

[Flivver]

What a great website!

I'll spend hours looking at it.

 

[Plus-Four]

photo's

I love it.

see this 1921-photo: http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=785548013cabba0d_landing

All that people at the waterside...............



Regards,

Plus-Four.

 

[Inky]

I have spent so much time looking at the images that I told my husband if I was still looking when he gets home from work to stage an intervention. I loved LIFE magazine so much as a kid and spent one summer in 1972 (at age 12) inside the Millersville State College Library just looking at all the back issues of LIFE.

What a treasure!

 

[Story]

Anyone read Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE?
Sobering.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=national+guard+source:life&imgurl=ade12e79a9538868

National Guard during the time of Republic Steel strike.
Location: Youngstown, OH, US
Date taken: 1937
Photographer: William Vandivert

 

[Story]

Intense photos -

American soldier rescuing wounded Japanese child, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 1944
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=ww2+aeroplane+source:life&imgurl=454bd8534411f8e4

American soldier, New Guinea - could well be a bust of a classic Greco-Roman warrior
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=new+guinea+source:life&imgurl=bc1684d94e20dd8f

and then there's Glendale CA's airfield, 1940
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=flying+boat+source:life&imgurl=8e66a6214590281a

 

[Jedburgh OSS]

This is more than anyone could wish for

And if anyone wants hardcopies of Life, last June at the WWII Weekend in Reading, PA one of the vendors had hundreds and hundreds of originals for $5 each regardless of the issue, including many from 1937-40. I anticipate that vendor returning next year. I found the first and third issues a few years ago at an indoor flea market for $3 each and also have the first issue in a pony edition, although I believe it's a reprint.