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The Good Earth, Revisited

Google has digitized millions of photos, most of them previously unpublished, from LIFE magazine and has made them available via a special archive that’s part of Google Image Search.

The first thing that I looked at was the Earthrise images snapped 40 years ago by the astronauts of Apollo 8.  That mission, the first carrying humans to the moon, was famous for a Christmas Eve broadcast which concluded with Commander Frank Borman saying, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”  It was a beautiful way to end what, up to that point, had been a really tough year.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).