LIFE Magazine photos available online

November 21, 2008 by markhopper

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An online photo gallery has been opened by Google Inc. that will feature millions of images from Life magazine’s archives that have never been seen by the public before.

The new service offers about 2 million photos and will scan 10 million from Life’s library in the near future.

About 97 percent of Life’s photo archives have never been publicly seen.

Some of the images are famous and iconic pictures — Martin Luther King Jr. waving to a huge crowd during his “I have a dream” speech, two wounded Marines on Hill 484 in Vietnam in 1966, an American sailor and nurse kissing at the end of World War II, and Dorothea Lange’s haunting photo of a migrant mother in 1936 — but others have never been seen until now.

“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,” wrote Paco Galanes on Google’s blog.

According to the website from Life Magazine. “Whatever you want to look at, whether it happened an hour ago, a century ago, or any time in between, you’ll be able to find it here quickly, easily, and for free.”

The collection will be located at www.life.com, with search results from google displayed via the Google Image Search service.