Life Magazine Archives | John Tedesco https://johntedesco.net/blog/tag/life-magazine/ Investigative Journalist in Houston, Texas Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:51:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 26139830 New research tool: Searchable Google archives of Life Magazine https://johntedesco.net/blog/2009/10/07/new-research-tool-searchable-google-archives-of-life-magazine/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:06:41 +0000 http://johntedesco.net/blog/?p=3272 This is a cool tool for history buffs: Google unveiled a vast, searchable archive of Life Magazine for all 1,860 issues from 1936 to 1972. Run a search for “San Antonio” and you’ll find all kinds of stories and photos: A 1938 feature story about Thomas Jefferson High School, with photos of its ROTC classes ...

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Life Magazine visits Texas in 1938
Life Magazine visits Texas in this 1938 issue
This is a cool tool for history buffs: Google unveiled a vast, searchable archive of Life Magazine for all 1,860 issues from 1936 to 1972.

Run a search for “San Antonio” and you’ll find all kinds of stories and photos:

  • A 1938 feature story about Thomas Jefferson High School, with photos of its ROTC classes and “manners” courses for female students;
  • Photos of Fiesta in 1950, which the magazine described as a “seven-day civic binge;“
  • A story in 1971 about the long-forgotten protests about the construction of U.S. 281.

    • Here’s Google’s original blog post about this new research tool. “This is part of a broader effort across Google to help bring offline content online and allow people to find it with a simple Google web search,” wrote Google’s product manager Brandon Badger. Hat tip to Marilia Martins who tweeted about this today.

    Read more about searching Google: How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques

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