Google publishes LIFE photo archive. Really cool...

[cobalt1999]

Folks, you'll want to bookmark this...

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We're digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos

[nini]

1. SWEET!!

thanks for posting.

[Bozita]

2. Great find!

Thanks.

[cobalt1999]

3. Some examples while I browse....

The Clintons:
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=9d9f7993b7e61fb1_large

Jimmy Carter:
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=c960b13075f57ba0_large

Gerald Ford and Bob Hope in some of the ugliest pants (even for the 70's)
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=61238c0e1fd6da3a_large

Scary picture of Nixon
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=6139bab353652f1b_large

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. CAN'T SLEEP NIXON WILL EAT ME

:scared:

[mcg]

17. im sleepin in ur bed

reedin yer stoopid book

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=ea37472d3737573d&q=kampf+source:life&usg=__QTD1jbqRUc_7judG2dn1S55XYng=&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkampf%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX

[Lochloosa]

5. Nice. Thanks

[RobertSeattle]

6. My family was part of a Life photo shoot in 1958 (before I was born)

It was to be a piece on "Life at Fort Riley, Kansas" circa 1958. (Article never got published - some other pressing news happened at it never made print)
http://images.google.com/images?&hl=en&q=Ft.+Riley+source:life&&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=21

Made my day yesterday when I found those old pictures online. (We got courtesy hard copies from the photographer)

[cobalt1999]

8. That is so cool.

Which ones where your family.

[RobertSeattle]

10. Most of them -- who whole piece was about life of an Army family

The most photographed Army (Captain) officer is my now 82 year Dad. The family is my mother, and older brother and sister.

[cobalt1999]

11. It must be something to have the family as part of this.

Hopefully they are enjoying it.

[mcg]

16. self delete

[MadrasT]

7. That is really, really sweet.

Thanks! :hi:

:kick:

[SpiralHawk]

9. baseball - cool

eom

[nc4bo]

12. Wow......

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=becaecff8e7e667b&q=1860s+US+Civil+War+source:life&usg=__imvZy4UZXGhc4N0C9p1lTiq9PwA=&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1860s%2BUS%2BCivil%2BWar%2Bsource:life%26start%3D126%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

There's no doubt that we have come a long, long way.



Thanks for the link OP!

[crispini]

20. Indeed

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=353204a48483261e&q=klan+source:life&usg=__XhEJku_faIjGhHSmhpl4xXLgebw=&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dklan%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den

[nc4bo]

21. ...and still have a long, long way to go but...............

The election of an African American President is more than any slave would ever have imagined. The majority of Americans, in no uncertain terms, told these freakshow, sheet wearing asshats to go "F" themselves.

The majority of Americans overlooked the color of the man's skin.

This is why I said we have come a long way.

[gatorboy]

13. Great Find!

[cobalt1999]

14. What's a Gator doing in Arkansas? n/t

[gatorboy]

19. We enjoy the BBQ.

[mcg]

15. Note the " source:life" at the end of the generated searches. nt

[4_TN_TITANS]

18. Like a kilogram of crack

for us history buffs!

Thanks! :hi: