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
- Curtis Chevrolet
- Stunning Contrast!
- Smiling
- That's an Elgin Bicycle
- Photographer, locale and purpose unknown?
- Some additional features-
- Why did the West Side never develop?
- Boys will be boys
- Not Only, But Also
- Astounding!
- Kool-Aid
- High-water mark
- A Tough Pair
- Light saber
- Design by the Little Rascals
- Lower Left Corner
- It seems safe
- I am Iron-Lung!
- The bear is still there
- Creepy faux-religious theme
- Cord thing
- Darn.
- Well Done!
- Not sure of what to say.
- Teuton Pagans
- I'm the guy
- Our fully equipped house
- Some traces remain
- I'll Pass
- Double duty
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
Lower Station: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:08am.
Holyoke, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Lower station, Mount Tom Railway." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Even More Expensive
Submitted by jimboylan on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 3:15pm.
25 cents is just for the ride up and down the mountain and the facilities at the top. It's 5 cents each way extra to ride the trolley cars in the photo from the Holyoke Post Office or even the nearest auto road, even more from other more distant places. Round trip from Springfield, Mass. to the top of the mountain is 55 cents.
Expensive
Submitted by prrvet on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 12:52pm.
Considering that the going wage for a 10 hour day in 1908 was about $1, a roundtrip ticket to the top of the mountain costing 25 cents, was about two hour's worth of wages. A family of four making the trip used up an entire day's wages.
Love the trolley and railroad photos
Submitted by Dutch on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:27am.
Thanks Dave - always a pleasure to view railway pics. If anyone is interested, there is a site for this one.
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