Image galleries | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) Many were digitized by LOC contractors using a Sinar studio back. They are adjusted by your webmaster for contrast and color in Photoshop before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here.

Image galleries

Member Gallery

Photos uploaded by visitors to Shorpy.com.

There are 2160 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 2:27pm

4x5 Kodachromes

4x5 Kodachrome transparencies

There are 319 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/19/2010 - 8:57pm

ShorpyArt

Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on French art paper.

There are 4316 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:51pm

Photographers

There are 5082 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:51pm

Agriculture

There are 79 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:38am

Animals

There are 320 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/26/2010 - 7:34am

Art & Design

There are 39 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 08/01/2009 - 2:05pm

Astronomy

There is 1 image in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 12/01/2007 - 10:26am

Aviation

There are 190 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/10/2010 - 3:58pm

Bathing Girls

There are 87 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:37pm

Before & After

There are 2 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/04/2010 - 3:27am

Boats & Bridges

There are 207 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:51pm

Boy Scouts

There are 35 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/05/2010 - 9:51am

Cars+Trucks

There are 670 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/27/2010 - 1:07pm

Cities

There are 406 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/10/2010 - 3:49pm

Civil War

There are 196 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 07/28/2010 - 6:31am

Colorized Photos

Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.

There are 157 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 2:26pm

Coney Island

Photographs from Luna Park and Coney Island in general.

There are 25 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 06/24/2010 - 2:13pm

Curiosities

There are 105 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 04/05/2010 - 3:56am

Dust Bowl

There are 7 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/16/2008 - 3:23am

Eateries & Bars

There are 95 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 06/14/2010 - 11:35am

Education

There are 121 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:20pm

Factories

There are 132 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:47am

Farked

There are 44 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 06/30/2010 - 2:43am

Fires, Floods, Disasters

There are 47 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 07/21/2010 - 1:25pm

Flatiron Building

There are 7 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 06/11/2010 - 4:30am

Florida

There are 35 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 06/27/2010 - 11:16pm

Found

There are 31 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/13/2010 - 12:14pm

Free iPhone Wallpaper

Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.

There are 31 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:20am

Frontier Life

There are 13 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 01/14/2010 - 6:55pm

Handsome Rakes

There are 29 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 06/29/2010 - 11:31am

Herb & Joe

Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.

There are 4 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 06/28/2009 - 3:48pm

Holidays

There are 183 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:03am

Industry & Public Works

There are 46 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/06/2010 - 2:11pm

Japanese-American Relocation

There are 18 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/07/2008 - 2:15am

Kids

Newsies, fruit peddlers and other kids who had to work the streets or in factories or mines to help support their families.

There are 843 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/30/2010 - 2:52am

Kitchens etc.

There are 85 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 07/03/2010 - 2:06pm

Landscapes

There are 39 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:22pm

Magic & Spiritualism

There are 5 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 11/28/2007 - 4:49pm

Medicine

There are 86 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:05pm

Mining & Forestry

There are 84 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 06/01/2010 - 1:17pm

Movies

There are 70 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:44pm

On the Road

There are 34 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/15/2010 - 3:34am

Painfully Obvious Photoshoppery

There is 1 image in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 11/04/2008 - 4:05am

Patriotic

There are 29 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 07/04/2010 - 4:45pm

Performing Arts

There are 130 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 07/25/2010 - 3:27pm

Pie Town

There are 29 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 01/25/2008 - 5:00am

Politics

There are 33 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 06/20/2010 - 8:26pm

Portraits

There are 206 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2010 - 1:31pm

Posters

There are 28 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 08/01/2009 - 2:05pm

Pretty Girls

There are 113 images in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:48am

Public Figures

There are 53 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 06/30/2010 - 1:19pm

Railroads

There are 333 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/23/2010 - 9:47am

Rural America

There are 233 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:28am

Scary Clowns

Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.

There are 6 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/19/2009 - 5:47am

Small Towns

There are 119 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/09/2010 - 11:11am

Sports & Recreation

There are 478 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 07/11/2010 - 11:20am

Stores & Markets

There are 382 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:07am

Streetcars

There are 95 images in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:07am

Texas Mountain Trail

There are 5 images in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/03/2009 - 2:18pm

The Depression

There are 123 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 06/09/2010 - 4:30pm

The Office

There are 54 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/29/2010 - 12:53pm

Toadlike Autocrats

There is 1 image in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 11/04/2008 - 4:05am

Travel & Vacations

There are 97 images in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 07/28/2010 - 8:03pm

Very Old Ads

There are 12 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/01/2010 - 2:26am

Weddings

There are 27 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/20/2010 - 1:33pm

WW2

There are 323 images in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 07/27/2010 - 1:02pm

WWI

There are 112 images in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:24pm

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