Google Books Adds LIFE

More than 1,860 issues of LIFE magazine from 1936-72 are now available online via Google Books, giving users access to the issues in their entirety: stories, photographs, advertisements, covers, letters to the editor.

This announcement follows a previous partnership between the two parties, announced in November, under which LIFE made the contents of its image collection available through Google Image Search.

Life Inc. president Andrew Blau said:

LIFE magazine was there for every historical event, cultural shift and pop-culture occurrence. From our first issue in 1936 featuring President Franklin Roosevelt’s work-relief project to coverage of Apollo 11, Marilyn Monroe, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, The Beatles, the beehive and everything in between. Every day we receive requests from readers looking for these issues for research purposes and to find photos and articles featuring family members, hometowns and other memories. Now with these full issues available online, readers will be able to browse through history as it was being recorded.

And Google strategic-partner-development manager Andrew Madden added:

We’re tremendously excited to partner with Life Inc. Our partnership will enable millions of people around the world to discover and access LIFE magazine’s iconic archive online.

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