Welcome to the 6th installment in Book Patrol's series Life of Google, featuring images from the vast archives of Life magazine that now appear on Google.Back in the 1950s the College Book Co. offered free limousine service to UCLA "coeds."Not a bad a idea. Imagine larger urban independent bookstores offering free pick up and drop off services to residents and visitors within a few mile radius.Photographs taken in September 1959 by long time Life magazine photographer Grey Villet.
Nuns Reading
Group of nuns sailing aboard the SS Manhattan in 1940. Photograph by Thomas D. McavoyThe 5th installment in Book Patrol's new series Life of Google, featuring images from the vast archives of Life magazine that now appear on Google.Nun using card catalogue in the New York Public Library, 1944. Photograph by Alfred EisenstaedtNuns waiting in line in polling station in Milan, Italy. 1948. Photograph by Yale JoelA nun reading the diary of Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Emmitsburg, MD. 1959. Photograph by Hank WalkerNuns reading about Pope Pius XII's death in Rome. 1958. Photograph by Mark Kauffman
Gertrude, Alice and Basket
Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and their poodle Basket. France, 1944.Photograph by Carl Mydans.Stein and Toklas were serious poodle people. Over the years they had three; Basket, Basket I and Basket II.#4 in Book Patrol's new series Life of Google, featuring images from the vast archives of Life magazine that now appear on Google.
The Chinese Book Burner and the Great Wall of Books
Qin Shi Huang, is one of the most notorious and prolific book burners in history. During his reign from 221 BC - 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang outlawed Confucianism and ordered the burning of pretty much all the books that came before him including the classic works of the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is also believed that he buried alive many of the scholars of the day. All in his quest to unite China.This the same guy who built the Great Wall.Jorge Luis Borges wrote an essay on Qin Shi Huang, 'The Wall and the Books' (La muralla y...
Capote on Ice
Truman Capote ice skating at Rockefeller Center in New York City - 1959. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt.The second installment in Book Patrol's new series Life of Google, featuring images from the vast archives of Life magazine that now appear on Google.