Wednesday 8 April 2009

7 Million Photos at LIFE.com


Beginning today, LIFE.com provide users with access to more than seven million photos from the LIFE and Getty Images archives, with approximately 3,000 new photos from Getty Images added daily. LIFE’s archive includes photos from as early as the 1850s, the vast majority of which were never published in the pages of the magazine. Users can search for photos by topic, time period, interest and by photographer and purchase framed prints.

Some photos on ''Circassian'' title
http://www.life.com/search/?q0=Circassian

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North Caucasus Market
1930: A collective farm market in the city of Nalchik, in the Russian North Caucasus, where racial and domestic tensions traditionally provided a source of problems for Russia.
http://www.life.com/image/3317076

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Burning Wells
October 1942: Between Maykop and Krasnodar in Russia, German soldiers advance towards an oil field set on fire by retreating Russians.
http://www.life.com/image/3242133

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Maikop
http://www.life.com/search/?q0=Maikop

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Manpower
circa 1943: German soldiers pushing a lorry which is stuck in mud in the north west Caucasus.
http://www.life.com/image/3287143

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Head man and his family in the Caucasus, from unidentified personal photo album. http://www.life.com/image/50699782

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Trotsky At Sukhum
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) with his second wife Natalia Sedova (1882 - 1962) at Sukhum on the Black Sea, 1924. Sukhum is famous for its spas and sanitoriums and Trotsky is undergoing treatment there.
http://www.life.com/image/73914369

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Monkey Clinic of Breeding Center at Soviet Institute for Experimental Pathology and Therapeutics at Sukhum.
http://www.life.com/search/?q0=Sukhumi

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Chechen & Chechnya - Caucasus
http://www.life.com/search/?q0=chechnya

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