“We’re excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. 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,” wrote Paco Galanes, Software Engineer at Google. “This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.”

The LIFE collection is available at: http://images.google.com/hosted/life.  About 10 million of LIFE’s photos will be added to the collection.  Many of these images have never been published before.  If a picture was really worth a thousand words, LIFE’s collection on Google is worth 10 billion words.