New Photo Collection from the Bureau of Land Management

"It's a man's life in the Bureau of Land Management! Lemming, Lemming, Lemming of the BLM..." Uh. Too much Python. Way, WAY too much Python. Take your mind off Monty Python with the Bureau of Land Management's new online collection of 2,500 historical photographs covering the US from 1890s-1980s. They're at http://www.photos.blm.gov/hist_index.html .

You may browse the photos, but there are no topics. Instead you just specify how many images you want to see per page and fire away. There's also a keyword search. A keyword search for elk found about 16 results. (For every search I did, all the resulting pictures were black-and-white, even the ones from the 1980s.) Results include state, year, photographer and a (in some cases extensive) description. Click on the thumbnail of the photograph for a larger version, or click on the Lo-Res and Hi-Res buttons at the bottom of each listing to download the photographs.

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