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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.

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  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 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. Re:Interactive map maybe ? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

    I think we done broke it.

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  3. 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.

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

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

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

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

  6. 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?

  7. 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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  8. 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?

  9. WWII? by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 2

    Since when was 1935 in the WWII period?

    1. 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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