LIFE Magazine Images Available on Google

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Miriam Hopkins Time cover

Google has recently launched an online photo gallery featuring images from Life magazine’s archives, many of which have never been publicly seen before. The new Google service is available at http://images.google.com/hosted/life; it currently offers 2 million photos. In the coming months, Google plans to scan all 10 million photos from Life’s library.

Life’s own website will begin showing the magazine’s photo archive in late February.

The Time cover above shows Miriam Hopkins in the title role of Becky Sharp, the 1935 film adaptation of W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Hopkins received her one and only best actress Academy Award nomination for playing Thackeray’s anti-heroine in the Rouben Mamoulian-directed production, which happens to be the first three-strip Technicolor feature film ever made.

 

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by Deborah Arthur | November 20, 2008 | Filed Under Photos 

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