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November 29, 2008
Google Image Search Adds Photos from LIFE
On November 18, Google announced on its blog that it is adding millions of pictures to its image search. Google is digitizing the LIFE Magazine photo archive, including millions of never-before-seen pictures. The collection dates back to 1750, and at present about twenty percent is online.
LIFE estimates that ninety-seven percent of the collection has never been published or released. Over the next several months, Google and LIFE will be working together to make the whole collection available to the public--some ten million photos.
This is a tremendous boon to the open access community as well as to historical scholars. Having these photographs accessible, photos that chronicle our past, preserve our present, and point us toward our future, is truly amazing. I look forward to perusing the collection when its entirety is online.
--Amelia Evans
Posted by colldev at November 29, 2008 12:13 PM