LIFE and Getty Images have teamed up to bring you LIFE.com, a website where you can browse the LIFE archives and the Getty archives completely free.

Of course, “free” means that the images are low-res and generally small, but at least it’s better than seeing the image with a watermark right through the middle of it. If anything, I think LIFE.com would be a great one-stop resource for quick access to news photos from a major player in the business. I’ll see how useful this site actually is in the days to come, especially when compared to the readily available access of the LIFE archives on Google (which, might I add, are available in hi-res).

But for now, head on over to LIFE.com to check out the wealth of images available.