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Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

schwit1 writes: Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs taken in the United States from 1935 to 1945. The photos come from all over the U.S., and can be accessed with this easy-to-use interactive map. They also used the original captions allowing the viewer to get an honest feel for the time period.

49 comments

  1. Interactive map maybe ? by Crashmarik · · Score: 2

    Inactive map seems pointless.

    1. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by techno-vampire · · Score: 4, Funny

      That may be, but you must admit that an inactive map is easy to use.

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    2. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by RavenLrD20k · · Score: 5, Funny

      Considering that as of this moment the page keeps timing out and I can't get it to load, I believe the spelling in the summary is more correct.

    3. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by PIBM · · Score: 1

      Slashdot editors finally reached a sentient level and are even touching prescient level! What an improvement :)

    4. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by Princeofcups · · Score: 2

      "I just created this site. It works so well on my local PC. Just throw it up on any old server."

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    5. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.

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    6. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by Marginal+Coward · · Score: 1

      Inactive map seems pointless.

      I dunno...it proves that spell checkers work.

    7. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 2

      Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.

      Ouch, someone call the Burn Center and tell them we have patients on the way in, STAT!

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    8. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by taustin · · Score: 1

      Or a stopped clock is right twice a day.

    9. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Once the Harvard alum get taught how to do the job by some prisoners.

    10. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by Streetlight · · Score: 1

      Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.

      Maybe someone from MIT.

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    11. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      To be fair, I clicked the link and it was indeed inactive, not interactive. I had presumed it was a typo, but I was wrong. Not sure what the news is, though.

    12. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by NotDrWho · · Score: 1

      I said PROPERLY!

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  2. slashdotted by Holi · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we done broke it.

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    1. Re:slashdotted by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 1

      Dude, it was inactive before we showed up.

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    2. Re:slashdotted by KatchooNJ · · Score: 1

      We killed it via tachyon transmission!

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    3. Re:slashdotted by kelemvor4 · · Score: 1

      I think we done broke it.

      Damn you, I wanted to have a look!

    4. Re:slashdotted by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      I think we done broke it.

      Damn you, I wanted to have a look!

      Don't worry, if you just press reload enough times, eventually it will work. Try clicking faster.

  3. Site already dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well... that was fast. Headers are still up, but content is dead.

    1. Re:Site already dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Awww we slashdotted Yale......

  4. Yale is for cows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOO! MOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU IVY LEAGUE COWS!!

    1. Re:Yale is for cows. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      YOU IVY LEAGUE COWS!!

      No truer words have been spoken!

  5. Inactive? by Dawn+Keyhotie · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't an interactive map be much more useful?

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    1. Re:Inactive? by Cytotoxic · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Yale Debuts New Interactive Map Application Supporting Up To 20 Simultaneous Users"

    2. Re:Inactive? by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 2

      This is why we don't bother RingTFA around here.

  6. Yoda Headline by Cytotoxic · · Score: 5, Funny

    That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.

    How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."

    1. Re:Yoda Headline by kelemvor4 · · Score: 2

      That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.

      How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."

      Nazi of grammar, you are.

    2. Re:Yoda Headline by mjm1231 · · Score: 1

      The editor of this story, inspired by the map he was writing about, decided to take an inactive approach.

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    3. Re:Yoda Headline by ClickOnThis · · Score: 1

      That headline appears to have been written by Yoda.

      How about "Yale makes 170,000 photographs from WWII period available online."

      More like "170,000 photographs online available from WWII period, Yale makes. And inactive map is, hmm?"

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    4. Re:Yoda Headline by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Reverse Polish Notation is apparently alive and well pretty at Yale.

    5. Re:Yoda Headline by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      Did samzenpus go to Yale?

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  7. The Archive is where the photos should be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Archive has the infrastructure in place to take this data. Why they tried to go alone is beyond me.

  8. Enjoy a Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Connection refused
    Just like that girl you asked out
    Because you're a fag

  9. Why did the Republcian-rulers of Yale... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    bury them in the first place? I know the Republicans hate information only nearly as much as they hate the people, but this is ridiculous. The Republican's hatred of history is out of control. Those religious people have destroyed thousands of sites in Iraq and Syria just this year. Just his year.

    1. Re:Why did the Republcian-rulers of Yale... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      -1 Troll... But, I'll respond in case you're serious. These were never buried, they're publically available at the Library of Congress. Yale just digitized and placed them online for the Internet to consume. It's all in the summary.

  10. In a world where being in shape was the average... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    jeez, even the old people look good. Hell the old guy smoking the cig looks in better shape than most of the people I work with.

  11. How many Library of Congresses is that? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    >> Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs

    How many Library of Congresses is that?

  12. A link to an Australian website by AndyKron · · Score: 1

    A link to an Australian website about an American collage posting images of America during WWII. Priceless.

    1. Re:A link to an Australian website by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

      A link to an Australian website about an American collage posting images of America during WWII. Priceless.

      I was hoping there would be a "Russia" connection I could work in there, but alas there was nothing. ;(

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  13. Back to the Future! by Nite_Hawk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot Effect killing websites: Check
    Government trying to ban encryption: Check
    TI-82 programming featured on slashdot: Check
    Slashdot ID still 4 digits: Check

    Huzzah! I've managed to transport myself back to the 1990s! Who wants to pay me $150k to make them a website?

  14. False Advertising by mwehle · · Score: 2

    Did any of you actually look at the photos? I thought not. These are not Library of Congress photographs, and in fact most don't even seem to be of buildings at all.

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  15. Rough times by myid · · Score: 2

    Google "Yale University had posted online 170,000 Library of Congress photographs taken in the United States from 1935 to 1945.", and you'll get links to pages that have some of the photos. For example, this page has some good photos.

    In that web page, I'm struck the most by the picture whose caption is "Farm machinery buried in drifting soil ...". Wow, look at that sand! It looks like they're at the beach.

    And in the bottom picture "Bed on the porch, Newport, Oklahoma ..." - look at how the corner and edges of the house are held up by bricks and rocks. I guess the soil that used to support that part of the house blew away.

    How in the world did those people survive?

  16. WWII? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 2

    Since when was 1935 in the WWII period?

    1. Re:WWII? by p51d007 · · Score: 1

      Heck, pretty much anything from November 1918 could be considered WW2... Pre WW2 during the Versailles treaty, 1918, through 1939. The stock market crash in 1929, global depression allowed the Lenin/Marxist movement in Russia, Spain had its civil war, Hitler comes to power, violates the treaty (oh gee, just like everyone violating the UN), and before you know it, the entire world blows up. Kind of like what is happening now. I'd say we are at the 1925-1929 period. Once the stock market blows up again, depression sets in, you'll see those wanting power to take over, you'll have another global war. This next global conflict, I doubt mankind will survive, in any strength. Heck, it might even make it more like the Star Trek TOS episode "The Omega Glory".

    2. Re:WWII? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 1

      When people say WWII, at least in Europe and North America, they refer to the period 1939 to 1945. There was some fighting in parts of Asia going on starting from 1936. So according to your logic I could say that 1905 or 1910 was part of the WWI Period as those years were between the Second Boer War and WWI. The period for a war was the years that the war was fought in.

    3. Re:WWII? by calidoscope · · Score: 2

      Try September 18, 1931 for the start of the hostilities that began WW2 - this is when Japan invaded Manchuria. First US casualties from that fracas were in 1937.

      I'm partial to Jerry Pournelle's calling WW1, the ETO of WW2 and the ETO of the Cold War as the 70 year war.

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  17. Re: In a world where being in shape was the averag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No wonder. Nerds are the product of a degenerate age. Back in those times, they either weren't born or they were beaten into shape.

  18. Nope by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Yale needs to have some Harvard alum come and show them how to properly run a web server.

    They can't; they're all in prison.

  19. "an honest feel for the time period" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "an honest feel for the time period"

    my brain explodes

    this comes on the heels of the NASA moon photos

    make sure you believe everything you hear and see because revisionist history is something that only absolutely insane people believe in