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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. 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.

  2. 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."