A friday afternoon cruise through the newly public archive of Life magazine’s photographs, hosted by google:
“Architect Le Corbusier sitting in chair with book in hands, glasses perched on his forehead.” 1946 Link
“Parking sheds of the High Court Building, used as living quarters by permanant security guards, contrary to the wishes of designer, Le Corbusier.” 1958 Link
“78-yr-old AT&T stockholder Mrs. Louise Bucker of Milwaukee WI looking at full-size model of co.’s Telstar experimental communications satellite, at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories.” Link
“TV camera-carrying weather satellite.” 1960 Link
“(L-R) Actors Kier Dullea & Gary Lockwood in publicity still from motion picture ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’” 1968 Link
“A model of a manned satellite which the US will send into outer space.” 1959 Link
“Cybernetic anthropomorphous machine (CAM for short), demonstrating how it can walk 5 mph., or lift 500 lbs. w. one foot, & dance at least as good as an elephant, as its inventor G.E. engineer Ralph Mosher sits in cockpit at the controls funded under an Ar” 1969
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“Shining rows of newly-made 15 cm. shells amassed side-by-side on table where male worker is using a hammer & stamping tool in the assemblage of several more shells in the Pilson Shell Dept. at the Skoda munitions factory.” 1938 Link
“Aerial of ships in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.” 1969 Link
“Seismograph recording of Pacific tidal waves caused by earthquake.” 1946 Link
Okay, that’s enough for now. Have a nice weekend!
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