Join and Share
Social Shorpy
To love Shorpy is to like him. Our goal: 10k "likes":
Recent comments
- The evil that men do?
- 125!!!
- God's Gift?
- What can one say
- Caption this photo
- Re: Good enough for Hollywood
- Perfect
- Laudanum Served Ahead
- Good enough for Hollywood
- BB-6
- Men in Bloomers
- Found It!
- Driving the "W"
- There's a lot going on
- Storage Space
- Doesn't quite show
- Re: Signal smorgasbord
- The Great White Fleet
- Pappy Van Tine
- "Lots of night games"
- There's No Crying In Baseball
- Railroad Crossing
- Bell Tower gone
- Progress
- My Whatzit guess
- Let's Play Catch
- Still there, an Olmstead park
- Today
- Up to code?
- Could it be Lincoln's church?
Member Photos
Photos submitted by Shorpy members.
Colorized Photos
Colorized photos submitted by members.
About the Photos
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
Search Shorpy
Today's Top 5
The Shorpy Store!
NEW FROM THE VINTAGRAPH VAULTS >> ASSISI TRAVEL POSTER
Holidays
Christmas
164 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 12/26/2011 - 9:50pm
Easter
21 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 04/27/2011 - 3:17pm
Halloween
15 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/30/2011 - 3:14pm
July 4
18 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 09/17/2011 - 9:15pm
New Year
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/01/2012 - 12:00am
Thanksgiving
26 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 11/24/2011 - 4:24pm
Valentine's Day
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 02/14/2011 - 2:41am
THE 100-YEAR-OLD PHOTO BLOG
Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
RSS | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Photo Use | © 2012 Shorpy Inc.