Life magazine images digitized
November 29, 2008 by Shane Hartman
Filed under photography
Google has just added all photographs published in Life magazine as a searchable index. Just do an image search and append the string ‘source:life’. You can take a visual tour of recent american history from before the great depression to the end of the cold war. Here are some photographs I found:
Atomic Testing
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Marylin Monroe
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Ku Klux Klan
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Viet Nam
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Random
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Google Images source:life is well worth browsing for a few minutes or a few hours if you have the time. Here are some searches I particularly liked: Big Bend National Park, New York World’s Fair, Time Covers from the 60s, Time Covers from the 50s.





















