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By ANICK JESDANUN

The Associated Press

Published: September 28, 2009

NEW YORK - Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives.

Life already has made images available through the Life.com Web site and a partnership with Google. The latest effort, also with Google, makes stories available as well, all searchable and viewable for free in their original magazine layouts.

"Every day we receive requests from readers looking for these issues for research purposes and to find photos and articles featuring family members, hometowns and other memories," said Andrew Blau, president of Life, in a statement. "Now with these full issues available online, readers will be able to browse through history as it was being recorded."

The archives cover the magazine's main run as a weekly, from 1936 to 1972 - more than 1,860 issues in all. After the weekly ceased publication in 1972, it was resurrected as a monthly in 1978 and ended again in 2000. From 2004 to 2007, Life appeared as a weekly newspaper supplement.

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