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The History of Prehistory in Life

added on 19 Nov 2008

LIFE magazine and Google have begun making millions of images from the LIFE photo archive available online. Some quick searches have already brought these interesting items to my attention: “Cave Man of Early Britain”, shown above, who seems quite a bit rougher around the edges than his rarifie...
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The History of Prehistory in Life

posted to Hairy Museum of Natural History on 22 Sep 2009

LIFE magazine and Google have begun making millions of images from the LIFE photo archive available online. Some quick searches have already brought these interesting items to my attention: “Cave Man of Early Britain”, shown above, who seems quite a bit rougher around the edges than his rarifie...
Kicking it Old School

posted to Cosmic Variance on 22 Sep 2009

Google is now serving up more than a hundred years of photographs from Life Magazine. The pictures of the early days of astronomy are just spectacular. The archives contain images of many astronomers who were critical figures in the development of the field, but who have yet to have telescopes ...
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google includes millions of images, many historical medical photographs

posted to Clinical Cases and Images - Blog on 22 Sep 2009

The LIFE photo archive is hosted by Google which allows you to search millions of photographs stretching from the 1750s to today.According to Google, "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, slid...
LIFE, with reptiles

posted to microecos on 22 Sep 2009

Photo Tony Linck, 1948 Matt from HMNH recently posted some gems from the amazing LIFE photo collection that is going up on Google. Here are some amazing images filed under “Reptiles.” Each, warrants pages of minor musings, but of course each is worth volumes alone so I’ll sp...