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LIFE Photo Archive

Google recently announced it's struck a deal to host the entire photo archive of Life magazine. Millions of photos (including many previously unpublished ones) will be made freely searchable online. If you're the kind of person who likes to browse through archives searching for weird stuff, it's pretty much a goldmine.

Only about 20% of the archive is online so far, but I've already had fun browsing through it. Below are a few photos I found doing a search for bird experiments.

The LIFE captions are pretty dry. I thought they could be improved by coming up with new captions in the style of LOL Birds. I'm sure the WU readers can come up with better captions than I was able to.

LIFE caption: Visual perception experiment on chickens, showing chick wearing a rubber helmet with prisms in the eyepieces, 1953.

My caption: "Mommy told me to wear my safety helmet!"

LIFE caption: A vision experiment being done on pigeons at Maryland University, May 1962


My caption: "I'm watching you!"

LIFE caption: Chicken playing baseball during an animal experiment, October 1948.


My caption: "Canz I play too?"
Posted By: Alex | Date: Wed Nov 19, 2008 | Comments (5)
Category: Photography and Photographers, Science, Experiments

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