Google your way through LIFE magazine

Google has done something really cool…again. Tuesday it launched a searchable archive of photos owned by LIFE magazine. Even though the weekly LIFE founded by Henry Luce (who also launched Time) didn't begin publication until 1936, the archive goes as far back as 1750 and many of the photos were never published. LIFE ceased being a weekly in 1972.

Google announced the availability of the LIFE archives on its own blog, stating: “This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

I spent some time perusing the archives and pulled out a few I found particularly enjoyable. You can surf the archive yourself here.

My hometown Milwaukee Braves win the World Series in 1957.

Iconic Depression-era photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936.

JFK Inauguration, 1961.

Jack and Jackie arrive at Love Field, Nov. 22, 1963.

Neil Armstrong's footprint on the moon, July 20, 1969.

Somehow this got my attention, May, 1953.

Coach Vince Lombardi bought the 1962 Green Bay Packers'

wives fur coats when their husbands won the NFL Championship.

(Editor's note: PETA wasn't founded until 1980.)