Google today partnered with Life magazine to provide a searchable index of photographs owned by Life from the late 1700s through the 1980s.

This example, by Ted Thai, is of Steve Jobs with the Apple ][.

Since the images (at least the more recent ones) are protected by copyright, it’s questionable what you can do with these. For instance, you can purchase the photos, at least the higher-resolution copies.

Bigger versions of the images (like this one at 827×1280) are watermarked with a “Life” logo. I think it’s interesting that more copy isn’t provided to explain how these photos might be used.

Creative Commons would be nice, but since the images don’t come with an embedding mechanism like the one at Flickr, stay safe by assuming you cannot use these images for anything beyond “personal use.”

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