Life Magazine Archives and the Upper Peninsula
Recently I came across a very cool feature on Google Images that allows you to search the photography archive of Life magazine.
The history of Life magazine has proved overtime to be one of the greatest archives of the United States history and arguably the most popular periodical of all time. Generally there are three large eras of Life. From 1883 to 1936 it was a general interest and humor magazine published weekly.
During 1936 Heny Luce (founder of Time magazine) purchased Life for $92,000. It’s focused changed to photojournalism and would remain a weekly publication through 1978. At that time it would become a general interest monthly publication.
It was just earlier this month that Google and Life announced a partnership to release their image archive.
Naturally, the first thing I searched was for the Upper Peninsula. According to the Google archive seven photos have been published in Life Magazine throughout the years. Have a look…
Frank Scherschel, 1961, Munising Falls
Frank Scherschel, 1961, A man on a ferry to on of the islands in Upper Peninsula
Frank Scherschel, 1961, Two young girls play in a forest in Upper Peninsula
Frank Scherschel, 1961, Tahquamenon Falls
Frank Scherschel, 1961, Tahquamenon Falls
John Olson, 1971, Aerial of man canoeing in lily-padded lake in the Upper Peninsula.
John Olson, 1971, Man fishing from canoe in lily-padded lake surrounded by lush green forest surrounds in the Upper Peninsula.
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great find! I love Michigan, even despite current events and the harsh cold!
…Those last two remind me of the Porkies!
I’m so proud to have lived here.
Does anyone know how to get to the side of Tahquamenon Falls shown in this picture(the opposite side that tourists currently view the falls from)? The remnants of the platform are still clearly visible today. Did there used to be some sort of bridge across? Or was it accessed via the roads that seem to be visible on google maps?