The archive of LIFE magazine from ‘36 to ‘72 is now readable in its entirety on Google Books.
What an amazing catalog of American culture and history, in it’s full context with the original advertisements and all.
Samples I found browsing:
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this site is staging a “re-enactment” (or what to call it) of the events in real time (seemingly), only 40 years later and utilizing 2009 web technology. Both Houston Control and Apollo 11 have their own Twitters (!), for example. Not a whole lot going on at the moment, but it’s still T-minus 63 hours until “launch”.
This is either really cool or really cheesy (probably both), but I’ll certainly be watching. I’ll give them a standing ovation of they have the balls to do this in real time too, what with this 15 millisecond attention-span world we now inhabit.
New York, June 6, 1944. “D-Day. Crowd watching the news line on the Times building at Times Square.” Large format nitrate negative by Howard Hollem or Edward Meyer for the Office of War Information.
