Google has immortalized the iconic images from Life magazine. Nearly ten million newly digitized images including photos and etchings produced and owned by the photojournalism magazine are online. The photographs date back to 1750 and can be seen and purchased at http://images.google.com/hosted/life.

Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings and prints.

So why are these images being revived? Time Inc. and Google are looking to make money off Life. Time Inc. wants to drive traffic to the upcoming Life.com joint venture that’s in the works with Getty Images, according to published reports. Meanwhile, Google hopes to finally generate a profit through their image search.

Life magazine was born in 1883. The magazine won a place in publishing history for its outstanding work in photojournalism — capturing history with the snap of a camera. Some of the best-known pictures were printed in the magazine, including Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph of the nurse kissing a sailor as they celebrated V Day, celebrating the end of war with Japan. Other famous photographs include the 1936 image of the female migrant worker Florence Thompson, which was shot by Dorothea Lange. The image became one of the most iconic images of the Great Depression. In the post-war years Life published some of the most memorable images of events in the United States and the world. In the 1960s, the magazine was filled with colored photographs including the moon landing.

Life’s motto became, “To see Life; see the world.”

Here’s a glimpse of some of Life’s most memorable photographs …