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
- Washington Airport
- Camera
- I am a veteran
- My boitday!
- Unclad
- L.L.Bean Catalog, 1957
- RIP
- MGA's and Lucas Electrics
- 36 years later
- Corvair Irony
- "Pour yourself a scotch
- To all the guitarists out there
- Mom
- The life of an IT person
- Suffragist Not Suffragette
- Where was this taken?
- Yes, Corvairs!
- The Long Happy Life of Margot Macomber
- Nice Grouping
- Key strapped to leg
- Milieu
- Strange
- Narrative
- Cruiser Line Vent Ports
- Triumphs
- Corvairs!
- Triumphant
- Burning the midnight oil
- Mantelless
- At least 1962, or late 1961
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
Filling Station: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 7:14pm.
Richmond, Virginia, circa 1910. "Masonic Temple." Note the horse fountain with electric illumination. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
Horse fountain
Submitted by Jcabellm5 on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 3:56pm.
I think the fountain was moved to Adams and Leigh by the Bill Bojangles statue.
Shrunken neighbor
Submitted by Larc on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 8:25am.
The building at left is still there, too. But the top two floors have been shaved off. It went from six to four as shown in the recent pic below.
"For Medicinal Use"
Submitted by lshadoff on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:03pm.
Rooney Malt Whiskey ad in the July 5, 1910, Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Still there
Submitted by DonY on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 8:05pm.
Beautiful Richardson Romanesque style building built 1888-1893. The horse fountain is gone though, probably replaced by a nearby gas station.
Unleaded, please
Submitted by JTF1972 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 8:04pm.
Lemme git a bucket of no-lead & a quart of oil ... for my hair!
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