4000+ fine-art prints suitable for framing. Desk-size to sofa-size and larger, on archival paper or canvas.
The Shorpy Gallery
Join and Share
Social Shorpy
To love him is to like him. Our goal: 100k "likes":
Recent comments
- Answer me this
- Last Ride
- It took me a while- -
- New Yorkers losing their "El"
- Swiss miss
- Oh, the wonders of technology!
- Signs and Signals
- Alan Brady
- Cool, Clear Water
- She never dreamed
- Flynn's has flown
- Riveting -
- Brand preference
- A Note of Whimsy
- For Those Who Wonder
- Still There
- Saxhorn it is.
- Classy
- Radiator filler.
- They aren't that noisy
- Saxhorn vs. Saxophone
- Clackity Clackity
- Car ID
- Pin Ups
- Famous in film
- Amazing photography
- He's got the cigarette
- slugs
- California Job Case
- Onions are a horror
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
Pit Stop: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 8:08pm.
July 1940. Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. "Cherry pickers. Auto of migrant fruit worker at gas station." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
Fill er up?
Submitted by Vintagetvs on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 4:12pm.
Yes sir, that'll be 90 cents please.
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Submitted by wilso127 on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 12:06pm.
Back in September of 1978, I had the pleasure of driving up the peninsula from Green Bay and spending the day at Sturgeon Bay, at a shipyard that was building a giant Great Lakes ore carrier. What a neat place!
The Gas
Submitted by silverton on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 12:28am.
Standard Oil Red Crown filling station.
That other car
Submitted by Jeb70 on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 12:25am.
Looks about like the 1936 Dodge my folks had. First car I can remember. Their next car was a used 1948 Chevy bought in about 1950.
Worn and tired.
Submitted by Oldmanmac on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 11:40pm.
Those front tires, especially the right front, are as worn as the rest of the car. The drivers door has a serious rust issue going on. Must have been a nice car when it was new.
Details
Submitted by switzarch on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 11:25pm.
Looks like he's due to replace those front tyres soon; I like the spotlight in the middle of the windscreen visor. And, there is a clear demo for the usefulness of running boards when you had to carry everything you possess along with you.
Car make and gas company?
Submitted by The Inventor on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 10:05pm.
Nice car. I hope someone will identify it, along with the gas company.
Styling
Submitted by SteveLexington on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 9:16pm.
This car is probably not much more than a dozen years old, yet to folks in 1940 it already looked like an antique. Such were the rapid developments in automotive styling in that era. The visor-mounted spotlight is nifty though.
Still a gas station there.
Submitted by 2Ton on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 9:11pm.
Michigan Street and Third Ave. The building looks the same on Google maps.
What took you so long?
Submitted by Bink on Fri, 05/20/2011 - 8:30pm.
The sign said, "Clean Rest Rooms," so I did.
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 | © 2013 Shorpy Inc.
Today's Top 5