Google to host 10 million images from LIFE Magazine photo library
Posted by Jacque on November 20th, 2008
Google launched two million photos from the 1750s to today as a start on a huge, 10 million item archive of newly digitized images from LIFE Magazine. LIFE has said that more than 95 percent of its photo archive has never been publicly viewed or published in the magazine.
“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,” Google software engineer Paco Galanes wrote on the Official Google Blog. LIFE was established as a magazine in 1883 and eventually ceased publication in 2006.
Along with displaying the images online, Google said they can be printed for free as long as they are not being used to make money. Framed high resolution prints in various sizes are for sale online at the click of a button after you select the image you want.
Google offers this search tip: add “source:life” to any Google image search to search only the LIFE photo archive. View the LIFE gallery.
