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November 29, 2008 by Shane Hartman  
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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

April 1954: Mushroom cloud rising white, blotting horizon, in OP Ivy, Mike shot atomic bomb test blast. April 1954: Mushroom cloud rising white, blotting horizon, in OP Ivy, Mike shot atomic bomb test blast. June 1957: Priscilla 37-kiloton balloon shot test firing in fiery mushroom cloud rising above desert landscape at NV atomic bomb Test Site.

 
Marylin Monroe

1995: Mockup of stamp honoring the actress. April 1950: Actress Marilyn Monroe wearing dangling rhinestone earrings, with her hair up. June 1953: Actresses Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell wearing gowns designed by Travilla pose for a publicity still during the time they made the motion picture Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. June 1953: Marylin Monroe on patio outside her home.

 
Ku Klux Klan

1923: Members of the Ku Klux Klan taking the oath at an initiation. 1946: The Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Samuel Green, with other Klansmen in hoods. 1946: Cross burning at nighttime Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally.

 

Viet Nam

1965: Vietcong prisoner captured during Cape Batangan battle, under guard, w. eyes & mouth taped shut, awaiting transfer to US POW compound. 1966: Young American lieutenant, his leg burned by exploding Viet Cong white phosphorus booby trap, lying on ground while being treated by medic, during Vietnam War. 1962: Bayonet wielding South Vietnamese soldier menacing captured Vietcong suspect during interrogation.

 
Random

1939: Bobsled ride at New York World's Fair. 1967: Jane Fonda in promo shot for Barbarella. 1942: African American cleaning woman Ella Watson standing w. broom & mop in front of American flag, reinterpretation of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting by photographer Gordon Parks as part of Depression era survey for Farm Security Administration.
1936: Father & sons walking towards shack, pace slowed by dust storm, in WPA Resettlement Admin. pic of Great Depression era life in Great Plains Dust Bowl region. 1942: Portrait of Dust Bowl farmer John Barnett and his family. 1954: Hurricane appearing on radar scope during Navy reconnaissance flight over neighboring tropical waters.

 
 
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.

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