Google makes Time Life photo collections available online

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Lifer
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Google has added the first part of the time life collection to the image search.
They say when finished it will be 10 million images.
Very cool stuff , as far back as 1860's
http://images.google.com/hosted/life


http://googleblog.blogspot.com...ailable-on-google.html
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search today.

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.
 

DarrelSPowers

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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Digital cameras used wierd resolutions and color settings back in the 1860's.

Using that sepia filter all the time was a pretty big fad back then...
 

toekramp

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Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Digital cameras used wierd resolutions and color settings back in the 1860's.

Using that sepia filter all the time was a pretty big fad back then...

haha :)
 

Anonemous

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Hehe I hope one day they put up the photos of my fourth grade class. We were featured on there way back...
 

eplebnista

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Some very poignant/moving pictures.
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Baked

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I didn't know they have iPhone back in the 1860's, just look at the clarity of those pictures.