4000+ fine-art prints suitable for framing. Desk-size to sofa-size and larger, on archival paper or canvas.
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.

New York, America's cup race 1901. I enjoyed colorizing this pic, for that matter all my pics. Shorpy does a fantasic job in bringing the past to us, thank you so much. View full size.
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