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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.
The new service, available at images.google.com/hosted/life, debuted Tuesday with about 2 million photos. Eventually, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life's library so they can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection.
About 97 percent of Life's archives have not been publicly seen, according to Life.
The photos can be printed out for free as long as they aren't being used as part of an attempt to make money. Time Warner Inc., Life's parent company, hopes to make money by selling high-resolution, framed prints. The orders will be processed throughQoop.com.
Life's archives include photos from the Civil War as well as some of the most memorable moments from the 20th century, including the Zapruder film capturing John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Google has been indexing a wide variety of information that previously wasn't available online as part of its efforts to lure even more traffic to its popular search engine. For the past four years, Google has been scanning millions of books stored in dozens of libraries around the world.
The Life partnership represents Google's biggest undertaking in professional photography. Google hopes to work out similar arrangements with the owners of other large photo archives, said R.J. Pittman, a director of product management.
Oldsmobile advertisement from June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magfazine.
"Come join the Exclusive Circle! Hydra-Matic Owners"
Bostonians "at ease" shoe ad from a 1940's issue of Life Magazine.
"Fit right - Feel Right... They're Walk-Fitted"
Cartoon by Arpauy Young in Life Magazine relating to the financial world. A well dressed man is surrounded by animals such as a fox, shark and wolf dressed in suits. The caption reads “The Animals He Meets When He Has Money to Invest.”
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Original caption: At 5:30 A.M. a few seconds after the delivery, Maude Callen held the healthy child as he filled his lungs and began to cry.
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W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
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Chrysler automobile advertisement from June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magazine.
"Handsome is... the way You want it!"
"Tailored to Your Taste!"
"You never saw so many gorgeous plastics..."
Black and white advertisement for the convertible Mercury 8 from a 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Our Derby Day favorite was the Mercury 8"
I'm pretty sure the joke Ed just told didn't start out with "So three white guys walk into a bar..."
Southern Pacific Railroad offices in San Francisco. The Life Magazine on the desk in the foreground is the October 9, 1944 issue. The headline on the newspaper ("YANKS BATTLE OF AACHEN") also places this in October 1944. My mother worked for Southern Pacific from 1942 to 1949, and is 5th from the left in this photo.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
One of the first published depictions of cyborgs:
“On the moon cyborgs unreel a cable to explosives for a seismic blast. On the front cyborg’s belt, tubes pump chemicals to his blood to control his blood pressure, pulse, energy, tranquility, blood sugar, body temperature, radiation tolerance. Pumps obey sensors like the radiation counter in his left thigh or blood-pressure gauge in his right thigh. His heart, in the X-ray view, sends blood to the implanted converter which remakes oxygen and carbon from carbon dioxide, taking the place of lungs. On the back of the other cyborg are a food supply, master fuel cell, food processor and wastes canister.” [Image description]
“Striding buoyantly across the low-gravity surface of the moon, there may someday be strange new men – part human, part machine – like the ones above. They will have a strange name: CYBORGS (for CYBernetic ORGanisms). Cyborgs, according to a daring new idea, will be men whose body organs and systems are automatically adjusted for life in unearthly environments by artificial organs and senses. Some of these devices will be attached, others implanted by surgery. With their aid cyborgs can dispense with clumsy, easy-to-puncture space suits in which earth conditions are re-created. Instead, they can move about safely wearing not much more than they would at home . . .” [Opening paragraph]
Fred Freeman (1907-1988) was a graphic artist who designed and illustrated books on naval history, space exploration and other subjects. He was a successful commercial artist in New York City from the late 1920's through the 30's, doing many illustrations and magazine covers for publications including The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.
After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he turned mainly to book design and illustration. He illustrated books on submarines and destroyers from World War II, for the United States Naval Institute. In 1956, with Theodore Roscoe, he designed the ''Picture History of the U.S. Navy,'' published by Charles Scribner's Sons. In 1960, he illustrated a children's book, ''First Men to the Moon,'' written by the scientist, Werner von Braun.
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt: This is copyright Alfred Eisenstadt and should not be used by anyone. This means you!! I thought it was in the public domain. Now i think not. I may have to remove it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-J_day_in_Times_Square
This picture is iconic for those of us who still remember the day.
My life certainly changed dramatically!!!!
I was actually in Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on that day.
After the war, I worked part time in a tavern on 40th Street at Seventh Avenue, not far from this spot.
I am posting this photo to show the original image that formed the basis for other works of art that used this as a model...
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays an American sailor kissing a young nurse in a white dress on V-J Day in Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the country that were presented in a twelve-page section called Victory. A two-page spread faces three other kissing poses among celebrators in Washington, D.C., Kansas City, and Miami opposite Eisenstaedt's, which was given a full-page display. Kissing was a favorite pose encouraged by media photographers of service personnel during the war, but Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by President Truman at seven o'clock. Similar jubilation spread quickly with the news.
The photograph is known under various titles, such as V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, and The Kiss.[1][2]
The official United States celebration is not on this date, however. V-J Day is instead celebrated on September 2 , the date of the formal signing of the surrender.[3] A special day of remembrance is marked in Japan and other countries on September 2.
Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon afterward, throngs of people crowded into the square and it became a sea of people.
Pepsodent toothpaste advertisement from the September 16, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Promise You'll Always Keep That Beautiful Smile"
"Safe. Effective. Truthfully Advertised."
It appears to me, that the young lady is displaying an uneasy grimace, and not a true smile in the traditional sense. But that could be just me.
Advertisement for Dr. West's VRAY - The Modern Dental Creme lifted from a 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
"Smile with new dazzling brilliance!"
"Saves You Money"
Hell, how could you go wrong for only 39 cents?
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Very cool cartooning artwork on this ad for Parker Quink, from the March 4, 1940 issue of Life Magazine - complete with Believe It or Not! branding.
"Here's an ink that CLEANSES YOUR PEN AS IT WRITES... does what no other ink can do!"
One of the most famous photographs ever published by Life Magazine, “V"J day in Times Square” was shot in Times Square on August 14, 1945 by Alfred Eisenstaedt who was in the square taking candid’s when he spotted a sailor "running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. Then suddenly he saw something white being grabbed. Eisenstaedt turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse.
The 26' tall statue is in Sarasota, Florida.
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I heard he later admitted the photo was staged?
I've heard no mention on television of today's anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy twenty-nine years ago, but I spent the better part of today trying to dig up my 1988 commemorative issue of LIFE in order to photograph it and put down a few thoughts.
I was a little less than two weeks from turning eight years old when his murder occurred. I was in Sister Mary Pancratia's third-grade class when the announcement came over the intercom. I recall telling someone at the time that I was going to go home and cry my eyes out.
I didn't.
I did, of course, remain glued to the television for the next three days and while I surely had no real awareness of world events at the time, I absorbed a great deal that weekend. And I believe strongly that it was a major contributor to the person I've since become.
I've read and watched a great deal about Kennedy in my lifetime. I'm by no means a scholar with regard to his personal or political lives, but I think I've learned enough about him to be able to have established an opinion of him as a leader.
Unlike the current president, I believe he acted in the best interest of the country and in the best interest of the world. Unlike the current president, he took the concept of public service seriously.
And while so many of his critics like to point to his philandering as a matter of bringing him down in stature, his actions in the Oval Office gained him a stature in the world's opinion that I think no other U.S. president has seen since. And all the while, he was a walking disaster of a specimen, requiring what was probably constant medication (from Taylor Marsh):
• Anesthetic procaine, for his Addison’s disease
• Cytomel, for thyroid deficiency
• Lomitil
• Metamucil, now there’s a commercial for you
• Paregoric
• Phenobarbitol
• Trasentine, to control his colitic diarrhea
• Testosterone, to increase his energy and boost his weight after bouts of colitis
• Penicillin, for urinary tract flare ups
• Fluorinef, to increase his salt absorption due to Addison’s
• Cortisone
• Tuinal, for insomnia – a side effect of the cortisone
• Antihistamines, for an array of allergies
• Codeine
• Steroids… Oh, and Vitamin C and calcium
In less than five years, Martin Luther King, Jr. would be murdered, as would Kennedy's brother Bobby. My mother told me one time that she thought Bobby would have been a better president than John. I'd never thought my mother was all that politically aware at the time she said that (or since), but I believe she was right.
I believe, too, that the Democratic party began taking a serious dive south after 1968, as did the politics of this country. While I'd be hesitant to call JFK the best president we've ever had (although Mr. Rectenwald, my sophomore history teacher thought he was), it simply boggles the mind that our country has sunk to the depths that it has in the last twenty-something years with regard to the leaders we have chosen.
I seriously can't think of one thing that the current president has done for the betterment of this country or its people. Not one.
And so, it is more than nostalgia that drove me to shoot and post this. It's the mourning of ideals that we decided to chuck as a nation since 1968; it's the belief that we'd be a much different — and better — nation had Lee Harvey Oswald not become part of our historical narrative.
From the speech he was en route to deliver on 22 November 1963:
It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.
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But now we have the military, the scientific, and the economic strength to do whatever must be done for the preservation and promotion of freedom.
That strength will never be used in pursuit of aggressive ambitions—it will always be used in pursuit of peace. It will never be used to promote provocations—it will always be used to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes.
We in this country, in this generation, are—by destiny rather than choice—the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of "peace on earth, good will toward men." That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength.
This is a really interesting vehicle. In 1946 Ford sent six truck chassis to Marmon-Herrington for conversion to four-wheel drive. Five were built as Ford pickup trucks and sold in 1946. The last was built as a Mercury with a woody body. This vehicle was titled as a 1947 model and sold to Don Bleitz, the nature photographer for Life magazine.
Bleitz and his wife, actress Joyce Mackenzie, flew to Indianapolis to pick up this wagon from Ford and drove it back to Los Angeles. Once home, Bleitz had Coachcraft, Ltd. of Hollywood add a stainless steel icebox and a water tank in the rear floor, an electric pump to bring water to a valve on the dash, replace the canvas top with a wood deck, and install chrome steps up the back to access that deck. He spent a lot of time off-road and set up his cameras on the top deck. This is probably the first real SUV.
George Barris’ "Cruisin' Back to the 50s" Culver City Car Show, Culver City, California
Includes a promo for her new movie, “Niagara” (20th Century-Fox, 1953).
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvGdBoFzjAo
Ads scanned (Cropped from previous ad) from an old LIFE Magazine - November 27, 1950 edition.
The pages were very brittle and dry and were crumbling during handling.
Studebaker automobile advertisement from a 1940 issue of Life Magazine, showing some of their elderly craftspeople at work, and employing an age-old advertising trick of putting a dog in the ad.
"They build your Studebaker to cost you less per mile."
Attempt by General Foods to educate the reader in this colorful advertisement for Post Toasties Corn Flakes from the July 29, 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"You Need Vitamin B1 Daily"
"Value Added To Value"