This grew out of my Down Da Road I Go Blog which now has become primarily what I'm doing and music. I was getting so much history in it, I spun this one off and now have World War II and War of 1812 blogs which came off this one. The Blog List below right has all the way too many blogs that I write.
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Showing posts with label photographs. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Ebony, Jet Photo Archive Fetches $30 Million at Auction
From the July 26, 2019, Chicago Sun-Times by Sam Charles and Mitchell Armentrout.
The iconic photo archive of Ebony and Jet magazines, which chronicled 70 years' worth of black history and culture, has a new owner.
A consortium of philanthropic groups announced its $30 million acquisition at auction, Thursday from Johnson Publishing, Ebony's parent company and promised to donate the treasure trove of history to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Getty Institution and other leading cultural institutions.
The collection has more than 4 million prints and negatives including photographs of Martin Luther King Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Nat "King" Cole, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, Prince and Stevie Wonder and many others.
There are also photos of everyday life for black Americans from church to food to fashion.
As a history person, I am so glad these people bought the photos and are donating them to organizations who will take care of them as well as make them available to the public.
Thanks. --Cooter
Monday, June 24, 2019
Ebony Photos On Auction Block
From the June 6, 2019, Chicago Tribune "On the auction block" by Robert Channick.
"The Ebony photo archives, a unique and expansive window into the African American experience, are set to go on the auction block in July, pending approval from a Chicago federal bankruptcy court."
Opening bids are expected to be about $13 million with the proceeds going to pay off the secured creditors of the Johnson Publishing Company, who are George Lucas (of movie fame) and Mellody Hobson.
Johnson Publishing was formed in 1942 and published Ebony magazine in 1945.
These photos span more than 70 years of black history with photos of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Sammy Davis Jr.. There are over 4 million photos.Including ones of Hank Aaron, Muhammed Ali, Malcom X, Nelson Mandela, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles.
Here's hoping some institution gets them who will not only keep the photos together but also make them available to the public.
--Cooter
Monday, August 7, 2017
World War I Australian "Diggers" Get Photographed in Front of the Great Pyramidin Front of the Great Pyramid
From the July 25, 2014 Yahoo! 7: The West Australian "The story of the Cheops pyramid picture" by Malcolm Quekett.
Just weeks before many of them died at Gallipoli, Diggers (what Australian soldiers in WWI were often called) of the 11th Battalion, 703 Australians, camped out in Egypt and receiving final training were ordered to a nearby landmark for a group picture. It was likely the last picture ever taken of some of them as many died at Gallipoli.
The 11th Battalion was raised primarily in the state of West Australia, Australia.
Captain Charles Barnes wrote: "After Church this morning, the whole Battalion was marched up to the Pyramid (Old Cheops) and we had a photo took or at least several of them."
The officers were in the front and the men on the steps of the pyramid.
Legend has it that one of the men in the photo was actually a dead body, dressed in uniform and propped up.
So far, 154 in the photo have been identified. They want Australian families to help with identification.
At Gallipoli, on the first day, April 25, 1915, the 11th Battalion was among the first Australian units to land and they lost 57 men of the 620 Australians killed that day.
A very interesting picture. Look it up.
--Cooter
Just weeks before many of them died at Gallipoli, Diggers (what Australian soldiers in WWI were often called) of the 11th Battalion, 703 Australians, camped out in Egypt and receiving final training were ordered to a nearby landmark for a group picture. It was likely the last picture ever taken of some of them as many died at Gallipoli.
The 11th Battalion was raised primarily in the state of West Australia, Australia.
Captain Charles Barnes wrote: "After Church this morning, the whole Battalion was marched up to the Pyramid (Old Cheops) and we had a photo took or at least several of them."
The officers were in the front and the men on the steps of the pyramid.
Legend has it that one of the men in the photo was actually a dead body, dressed in uniform and propped up.
So far, 154 in the photo have been identified. They want Australian families to help with identification.
At Gallipoli, on the first day, April 25, 1915, the 11th Battalion was among the first Australian units to land and they lost 57 men of the 620 Australians killed that day.
A very interesting picture. Look it up.
--Cooter
Labels:
Australia,
Battle of Gallipoli,
Diggers,
Egypt,
photographs,
pyramids,
World War I
Friday, May 19, 2017
About Those Model Battleships
From the April 25, 2017, Shorpy Photo site "Fireside Cats: 1955."
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955. A boy and girl are posing in front of the home's fireplace. She is holding a car, but the boy is proudly holding a battleship model.
I couldn't tell what model battleship it was, but a comment said it was definitely an Iowa-class battleship and that these were very popular with American boys at the time. He described these warships as the "last and best true battleships built by the U.S. Navy. Everything about them is superlative."
I always remember seeing a picture of the hull of the Oklahoma after it was uprighted. It was tied up next to the new USS Iowa, which dwarfed the older battleship.
As proud as the boy was, he had not done a perfect job putting it together.
I was just four at the time so would have been unable to build a battleship model, but model ships were my favorite things to build by far. Other friends of mine liked to build model planes or cars, but my forte was ships.
I built models of the Arizona, North Carolina and several of the Missouri, including a huge one.
Give Me a Battleship Model Anytime. --Cooter
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955. A boy and girl are posing in front of the home's fireplace. She is holding a car, but the boy is proudly holding a battleship model.
I couldn't tell what model battleship it was, but a comment said it was definitely an Iowa-class battleship and that these were very popular with American boys at the time. He described these warships as the "last and best true battleships built by the U.S. Navy. Everything about them is superlative."
I always remember seeing a picture of the hull of the Oklahoma after it was uprighted. It was tied up next to the new USS Iowa, which dwarfed the older battleship.
As proud as the boy was, he had not done a perfect job putting it together.
I was just four at the time so would have been unable to build a battleship model, but model ships were my favorite things to build by far. Other friends of mine liked to build model planes or cars, but my forte was ships.
I built models of the Arizona, North Carolina and several of the Missouri, including a huge one.
Give Me a Battleship Model Anytime. --Cooter
Monday, May 15, 2017
Album With Rare Harriet Tubman Photograph Goes for $161,000
From the March 31, 2017, Chicago Tribune.
An album containing a rare photograph of 19th-century abolitionist and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman was sold March 30 in New York City at an auction for $161,000-- far exceeding presale estimates.
The Tubman photograph was taken in Auburn, New York, in 1868 or 1869. She was in her late 40s at the time. Most existing photos of her were taken much later in life. She looks very young here.
The winning bid was made by Lion Heart Autographs, a Manhattan-based dealer.
The Maryland-born Tubman, an escaped slave, helped scores of other slaves escape the South by guiding them to the North. She served as a spy during the Civil War. Afterwards, she settled in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
I wonder who else was in the photo album?
If they have to put her on the twenty dollar bill, I nominate this picture.
Harriet Tubman Like You've Never Seen her Before. --Cooter
An album containing a rare photograph of 19th-century abolitionist and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman was sold March 30 in New York City at an auction for $161,000-- far exceeding presale estimates.
The Tubman photograph was taken in Auburn, New York, in 1868 or 1869. She was in her late 40s at the time. Most existing photos of her were taken much later in life. She looks very young here.
The winning bid was made by Lion Heart Autographs, a Manhattan-based dealer.
The Maryland-born Tubman, an escaped slave, helped scores of other slaves escape the South by guiding them to the North. She served as a spy during the Civil War. Afterwards, she settled in Auburn, in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
I wonder who else was in the photo album?
If they have to put her on the twenty dollar bill, I nominate this picture.
Harriet Tubman Like You've Never Seen her Before. --Cooter
Labels:
Auction,
Harriet Tubman,
photographs,
slavery,
Underground Railroad
Friday, December 23, 2016
Shorpy Photos: Talking Machines: 1914
From the March 3, 2016, Shorpy site.
Richmond, California, 1914. "Victor Talking Machine display, Hawley Piano Company, Macdonald Avenue." With Nipper heading the list of the latest platters.
Early, early stereos. There is an ad poster for Harry Lauder "Lauder Laughs and when you hear his Four New Victor records you will laugh with him. 12 in Purple Label. Price $1.25. Come in and laugh with Harry Lauder."
Another poster: "New Victor Records "The Spring Maid. Daydreams: Two Little Love Bees. Sung by Christie Macdonald. The Rabbit Story ? by Tom McNaugh ?.
Comment: One of Lauder's biggest hits was in 1911 "Roamin' in the Gloamin." Price of records appears to be 75 cents to $1.25, which was a whole lot of money back then.
RCA did not come into existence until 1919 and bought Victor Talking Machines.
--Cooter
Richmond, California, 1914. "Victor Talking Machine display, Hawley Piano Company, Macdonald Avenue." With Nipper heading the list of the latest platters.
Early, early stereos. There is an ad poster for Harry Lauder "Lauder Laughs and when you hear his Four New Victor records you will laugh with him. 12 in Purple Label. Price $1.25. Come in and laugh with Harry Lauder."
Another poster: "New Victor Records "The Spring Maid. Daydreams: Two Little Love Bees. Sung by Christie Macdonald. The Rabbit Story ? by Tom McNaugh ?.
Comment: One of Lauder's biggest hits was in 1911 "Roamin' in the Gloamin." Price of records appears to be 75 cents to $1.25, which was a whole lot of money back then.
RCA did not come into existence until 1919 and bought Victor Talking Machines.
--Cooter
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Bathing Is Compulsory-- Part 3: Separate Baths for Colored and White Persons
More pictures and quotes from the bulletin boards.
"Good preventative work during detention." Photos including inmates in Occupation, Education, Recreation, Playground and Schoolroom.
Telephone calls provided. Records.
Clients are interviewed to throw light on personal and community problems.
There are eight Bathrooms. Photos of Boys Bath and Girls Bath.
Also, there are separate baths for colored and white persons. A towel, wash cloth and toothbrush provided for each inmate.
BATHING IS COMPULSORY!
An Interesting Look at Jail in 1922. --Cooter
"Good preventative work during detention." Photos including inmates in Occupation, Education, Recreation, Playground and Schoolroom.
Telephone calls provided. Records.
Clients are interviewed to throw light on personal and community problems.
There are eight Bathrooms. Photos of Boys Bath and Girls Bath.
Also, there are separate baths for colored and white persons. A towel, wash cloth and toothbrush provided for each inmate.
BATHING IS COMPULSORY!
An Interesting Look at Jail in 1922. --Cooter
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Bathing Is Compulsory-- Part 2: Cleanliness, Sunlight and Fresh Air for All
There are signs set up on movable bulletin boards. They have pictures and captions. Some of the others:
HOUSE OF DETENTION MENTAL AND MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS: Are essential in order to make intelligent disposition of cases.
There's a bed for every inmate: Then there are pictures of a white girls bedroom, colored girls dormitory and dining room. (Apparently there is segregation in D.C. back in 1922.)
Then a bulletin board showing pictures of the employee dining room, shelter for stranded girls. "There is Cleanliness, Sunlight and Fresh Air for all."
Still More on Those Boards. --FreshAirCooter
HOUSE OF DETENTION MENTAL AND MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS: Are essential in order to make intelligent disposition of cases.
There's a bed for every inmate: Then there are pictures of a white girls bedroom, colored girls dormitory and dining room. (Apparently there is segregation in D.C. back in 1922.)
Then a bulletin board showing pictures of the employee dining room, shelter for stranded girls. "There is Cleanliness, Sunlight and Fresh Air for all."
Still More on Those Boards. --FreshAirCooter
Labels:
jails,
photographs,
segregation,
Shorpy Photos,
Washington DC
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Bathing is Compulsory in 1922-- Part 1: In the Jailhouse Now
From the Nov. 2, 2012, Shorpy "Bathing is Compulsory 1922."
1922. Washington, D.C. "Women's Bureau The House of detention display at the Social Hygiene exhibit.
The photo shows four people at a table, three women and one man. They are reading pieces of paper. The sign behind them reads "WOMEN'S BUREAU-- METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT-- WASHINGTON, D.C.
Citizens are asked to notify the presence of:
I. Any friendless, homeless or incorrigible girls or boys.
II. Any condition making for a person's causing delinquency
III. Any girl or woman who is violating the law.
More to Come. --Cooter
1922. Washington, D.C. "Women's Bureau The House of detention display at the Social Hygiene exhibit.
The photo shows four people at a table, three women and one man. They are reading pieces of paper. The sign behind them reads "WOMEN'S BUREAU-- METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT-- WASHINGTON, D.C.
Citizens are asked to notify the presence of:
I. Any friendless, homeless or incorrigible girls or boys.
II. Any condition making for a person's causing delinquency
III. Any girl or woman who is violating the law.
More to Come. --Cooter
Labels:
"Hell Ships",
photographs,
police,
Shorpy Photos,
Washington DC
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Shorpy Photos of 1900 Safety Bicycles
From Shorpy Site.
Kind of interesting that I would come across these two photographs right when I was doing entries about bicycling in Chicago 1890-1900.
From the Nov. 17, 2014, Shorpy "Miss Handle Bars: 1900
From the Nov. 18, 2014, Shorpy "Rover Boys: 1900.
See what those bikes looked like.
--Cooter
Kind of interesting that I would come across these two photographs right when I was doing entries about bicycling in Chicago 1890-1900.
From the Nov. 17, 2014, Shorpy "Miss Handle Bars: 1900
From the Nov. 18, 2014, Shorpy "Rover Boys: 1900.
See what those bikes looked like.
--Cooter
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Some More Shorpy 1893-1904 U.S. Navy Photos
9-19-12 Shorpy "Maine Cook Cat: 1896" Taken aboard the famous USS Maine before it blew up in Havana Harbor showing the berth deck cooks and their cat.
9-17-12 Shorpy "Georgia in Maine: 1904." October 1904, Bath, Maine "Bath Iron Works showing the launch of the battleship Georgia..
9-14-12 Shorpy "Russian Fleet Officers: 1893." New York 1893: "Officers of the Russian fleet i n town for the Columbian Naval Review.
--Cooter
9-17-12 Shorpy "Georgia in Maine: 1904." October 1904, Bath, Maine "Bath Iron Works showing the launch of the battleship Georgia..
9-14-12 Shorpy "Russian Fleet Officers: 1893." New York 1893: "Officers of the Russian fleet i n town for the Columbian Naval Review.
--Cooter
Labels:
photographs,
Russian Navy,
Shorpy Photos,
USS Georgia,
USS Maine
U.S. Navy Shorpy Photo 1908-- Part 2
The USS Columbia (CL12) and USS Minneapolis (CL 13) were in and out of service during their careers. The Columbia had been decommissioned since May 3, 1907 and returned to service in 1915 where it served during World War I. It was decommissioned in
June 29, 1921, and sold January 22, 1922.
There was an outhouse perched over the water on the Katahdin's starboard side for relief. Not too sanitary for the river, though.
The Katahdin was highly innovative in its time, but obsolescent when it was designed after being copied after British 1870s-1880s harbor rams. She was underpowered and unseaworthy.
It was obsolete when it was launched in 1896 and decommissioned October 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1909 it was struck from the Navy register and designated a target vessel and sunk off Rappahannock Spit, Virginia, in the autumn of 1909.
--Don't Katahdin Me. --DaCoot
June 29, 1921, and sold January 22, 1922.
There was an outhouse perched over the water on the Katahdin's starboard side for relief. Not too sanitary for the river, though.
The Katahdin was highly innovative in its time, but obsolescent when it was designed after being copied after British 1870s-1880s harbor rams. She was underpowered and unseaworthy.
It was obsolete when it was launched in 1896 and decommissioned October 1898 after the Spanish-American War. In 1909 it was struck from the Navy register and designated a target vessel and sunk off Rappahannock Spit, Virginia, in the autumn of 1909.
--Don't Katahdin Me. --DaCoot
Labels:
photographs,
Shorpy Photos,
USS Columbia,
USS Katahdin,
USS Minneapolis
U.S. Navy Shorpy Photos from 1908-- Part 1
From the September 21, 2012, Shorpy "Heavy Metal: 1908."
Philadelphia, curca 1908. "Ships at League Island Navy Yard. Cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia and armored ram Katahdin.
One comment quoted the Annual Report of the Navy Department for Fiscal Year 1907 saying that the Katahdin was considered to be of no military value and requested that it be sold. Its value will continue to decrease and it was last commissioned for service in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. So far, $54,067.77 had spent on construction and repairs on it.
--Cooter
Philadelphia, curca 1908. "Ships at League Island Navy Yard. Cruisers Minneapolis and Columbia and armored ram Katahdin.
One comment quoted the Annual Report of the Navy Department for Fiscal Year 1907 saying that the Katahdin was considered to be of no military value and requested that it be sold. Its value will continue to decrease and it was last commissioned for service in 1898 for the Spanish-American War. So far, $54,067.77 had spent on construction and repairs on it.
--Cooter
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
"Napalm Girl" Photo Turns 40
From the June 1, 2012, Yahoo! News, AP by Margie Mason.
The naked young girl running, screaming in agony is one of those significant photos in the history of the world. U.S. dropped napalm had burned away her clothes and into her skin. The photo shocked the world as much as the Vietnamese officer shooting the Viet Cong soldier in the head, execution-style.
It was taken by AP photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut and graphically presented the horrors of the war.
The picture was taken June 8, 1972. The girl, Kim Phuc survived and is now 49.
The naked young girl running, screaming in agony is one of those significant photos in the history of the world. U.S. dropped napalm had burned away her clothes and into her skin. The photo shocked the world as much as the Vietnamese officer shooting the Viet Cong soldier in the head, execution-style.
It was taken by AP photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut and graphically presented the horrors of the war.
The picture was taken June 8, 1972. The girl, Kim Phuc survived and is now 49.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Who Was Tiananmen's "Tank Man"?
From the June 5, 2014, Chicago Tribune "'Tank man' identity remains a mystery" by Julie Makinen.
Foreign reporters have tried to identify this man, made famous for standing in front of a line of tanks holding just a shopping bag to prevent them from moving. Along with pictures of the crowds and the "Goddess of Democracy" these photos are ingrained in peoples' minds.
Shortly after noon on June 5, 1989, the day after troops stormed through Beijing to crush the student-led uprising that had paralyzed the Chinese capital for weeks, the lone man stopped that column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace.
The lead tank halted and then tried moving right and left, but each time the man adjusted his position to remain in the tank's path. Finally, he shifted the bags to one hand, hopped onto the tank and appeared to talk with its commander.
No one knows for sure what the man's identity is or even whether he is still alive.
Time Magazine has named him one of the century's top 20 revolutionaries. But, it is unclear whether the "Tank Man" is even aware of the impact he made as the image remains barred and censors are very careful to suppress it.
That Was One Striking Photo.
Foreign reporters have tried to identify this man, made famous for standing in front of a line of tanks holding just a shopping bag to prevent them from moving. Along with pictures of the crowds and the "Goddess of Democracy" these photos are ingrained in peoples' minds.
Shortly after noon on June 5, 1989, the day after troops stormed through Beijing to crush the student-led uprising that had paralyzed the Chinese capital for weeks, the lone man stopped that column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace.
The lead tank halted and then tried moving right and left, but each time the man adjusted his position to remain in the tank's path. Finally, he shifted the bags to one hand, hopped onto the tank and appeared to talk with its commander.
No one knows for sure what the man's identity is or even whether he is still alive.
Time Magazine has named him one of the century's top 20 revolutionaries. But, it is unclear whether the "Tank Man" is even aware of the impact he made as the image remains barred and censors are very careful to suppress it.
That Was One Striking Photo.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Some More on Slave Reunions-- Part 1
I did a Yahoo! search for slave reunions and came up with a photo titled "Slave Reunion from 1916" on Boing Boing. Unfortunately, it didn't say where it was or if the four former slaves pictures (two mwen and two women) were part of a larger group. But, being 1916, there must have been more than one slave reunions. //// This could make a good topic for a book. ////
Friday, February 14, 2014
See the Real Old New York City
From April 24, 2012, Yahoo! News, AP "New York City portrayal online in 870,000 images" by Cristian Salazar and Randy Herschaft. //// Available online for the first time by the Department of Records. They were culled from the 2.2 million collection of the Municipal Archives in a four year project. //// Some of them date back to the mid-1800s. Most of them were taken by anonymous municipal workers. Some 1,300 are Depression-era Works Progress Adminstration photos. //// --Cooter
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Deaths: Shot Famous JFK, Jr. Photo
STAN STEARNS, 76.
Died March 2, 2012. UPI Photographer who on Nov. 25, 1963, was standing outside Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, squeezed into a roped-off area with 70 other photographers.
The flag-draped casket on a horse-drawn caisson bearing the body of President John F. Kennedy was coming by. He saw Jacqueline Kennedy lean down and whisper something to her son, who was turning three that day. John, Jr. stepped forward and saluted his father. All this happened in less than five seconds. Mr. Stearns caught the moment while all the other photographers missed it, focusing on the coffin or Mrs. Kennedy.
The others walked with the procession, but Mr. Stearns hurried back to his office where his angry boss demanded to know why he wasn't with the procession. He replied that he had the picture of the day.
He did.
Mr. Stearns was born May 11, 1935, in Annapolis, Md.. He didn't get rich off the picture, but did once win $25 for it in a picture contest. He always said, "The picture told the whole damn story." It Sure Did.
Labels:
Dead Page,
JFK,
John F. Kennedy,
Kennedy,
Kennedy Assassination,
photographs
Sunday, December 2, 2012
The San Francisco 1906 Earthquake in True Color
From the March 10, 2011, Yahoo! News.
Museum volunteers have found perhaps the only color photographs to be taken of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Six never-before-published images taken by photo-innovator Frederick Eugene Ives several months after the April earthquake have been found. Most were taken from the roof of a hotel where he was staying in October.
They had been stored all these years with a collection of items donated by his son, Herbert Ives.
They were discovered in 2009by National Museum of American History volunteer Anthony brooks when cataloguing the collection. Hand-colored photos of the even have surfaced before, but this is probably the only ones still in color.
Ives was one of the few photographers back then with expertise with color and these pictures were to be 3-D in a device he invented that never caught on. It is known for sure that he visited San Francisco in October, but it is also possible that he might have been there earlier.
Of interest, Ives is also known for inventing the halftone reproduction process still used to print photos in newspapers.
Check them Out. --Cooter
Museum volunteers have found perhaps the only color photographs to be taken of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Six never-before-published images taken by photo-innovator Frederick Eugene Ives several months after the April earthquake have been found. Most were taken from the roof of a hotel where he was staying in October.
They had been stored all these years with a collection of items donated by his son, Herbert Ives.
They were discovered in 2009by National Museum of American History volunteer Anthony brooks when cataloguing the collection. Hand-colored photos of the even have surfaced before, but this is probably the only ones still in color.
Ives was one of the few photographers back then with expertise with color and these pictures were to be 3-D in a device he invented that never caught on. It is known for sure that he visited San Francisco in October, but it is also possible that he might have been there earlier.
Of interest, Ives is also known for inventing the halftone reproduction process still used to print photos in newspapers.
Check them Out. --Cooter
Labels:
earthquakes,
photographs,
San Francisco California
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Something Worth Looking At: Life Magazine Photographs
From the November 20, 2008, Chicago Tribune "New life for huge Life photograph collection on Google" by Steve Johnson.
Including the date rape photo of the kissing sailor at the end of World Wat II."Suddenly one of the great treasure troves in history is available online, free, and even ready for your download and manipulation. The Life magazine photos archive went up this week, hosted by Google www.images.google.com/hosted/life.
It is broken down by decades. And, you are welcome to use them without all that copyright stuff. You can crop hem the way you want and make your own 8-by-10 prints. You just can't use them for commercial purposes.
However, not all of the 10 million images are on the Google site. Life president Andrew Blau said, "To have the entire collection in a warehouse in Jersey City is not to the benefit of the photography."
I look forward to the day when any non-money-making effort can use any photo on the internet with no copyright problems. But I would like for whomever made the photo to include their name or site at the bottom of the picture.
Definitely Worth a Look. --Cooter
Including the date rape photo of the kissing sailor at the end of World Wat II."Suddenly one of the great treasure troves in history is available online, free, and even ready for your download and manipulation. The Life magazine photos archive went up this week, hosted by Google www.images.google.com/hosted/life.
It is broken down by decades. And, you are welcome to use them without all that copyright stuff. You can crop hem the way you want and make your own 8-by-10 prints. You just can't use them for commercial purposes.
However, not all of the 10 million images are on the Google site. Life president Andrew Blau said, "To have the entire collection in a warehouse in Jersey City is not to the benefit of the photography."
I look forward to the day when any non-money-making effort can use any photo on the internet with no copyright problems. But I would like for whomever made the photo to include their name or site at the bottom of the picture.
Definitely Worth a Look. --Cooter
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