Google has acquired the whole Life Magazine photo archive, and they are putting it up online for all of us to see. The entire archive should be available by early next year.
To check out the images ranging from 1750's on, click here
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Life Magazine photo archive
Oh, I spent many many happy afternoons in our hall closet as a kid, rereading back issues of Life. I learned about our recent history via photos long before I knew it in print. Images of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war stayed with me for years, and helped me get an understanding of the time, as I was really too young to really get the issues of the 60s. I still love reading their end of the year issues.
That website is going to be a total time suck for me, but one I look forward to!
Edit: ok whats up with this? the only photos from the 20s is of Charles Lindbergh? And the only photos from the 60s is of Apollo space program? Theres got to be a way of accessing more of these - anyone have an idea?
That website is going to be a total time suck for me, but one I look forward to!
Edit: ok whats up with this? the only photos from the 20s is of Charles Lindbergh? And the only photos from the 60s is of Apollo space program? Theres got to be a way of accessing more of these - anyone have an idea?
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[quote=""Ash""]Edit: ok whats up with this? the only photos from the 20s is of Charles Lindbergh? And the only photos from the 60s is of Apollo space program? Theres got to be a way of accessing more of these - anyone have an idea?[/quote]
lil said that it's not a complete archive and that it should be complete by early next year....
lil said that it's not a complete archive and that it should be complete by early next year....
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I discovered this while looking for Lady Jane images and they had a larger one of one I already had, so I was a happy camper. Wish they had more though.
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