{"id":228,"date":"2008-11-20T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-11-20T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:17:15","slug":"life-photos-now-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/life-photos-now-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Life photos, now on Google."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever found yourself flicking through an old Life magazine at a doctors surgery, this might be of interest to you.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the Life photo archive,&#8221; Software Engineer Paco Galanes wrote in the Official Google Blog. &#8220;This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world&#8217;s information and make it universally accessible and useful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, some 97 percent of Life&#8217;s library has never been seen by the public before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/\">Galanes observed<\/a>. &#8220;The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We&#8217;re digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, only 20 percent of the library has been uploaded to the Google site, but more photos will be added incrementally over the coming months. If you&#8217;re looking for some real eye candy, go with all due haste to the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\">Life Photo Archive<\/a> Hosted by Google.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.megapixel.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/life-library-is-treasure-trove.html\">http:\/\/blog.megapixel.net\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some amazing images are already up. A link direct to the Google page is <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever found yourself flicking through an old Life magazine at a doctors surgery, this might be of interest to you. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the Life photo archive,&#8221; Software Engineer Paco Galanes wrote in the Official Google Blog. &#8220;This effort to bring offline images online was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[431,474,593,848],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-web-sites","tag-google","tag-history","tag-life","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-3G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}