6000+ fine-art prints suitable for framing. Desk-size to sofa-size and larger, on archival paper or canvas.
The Shorpy Archive
Join and Share
Social Shorpy
To love him is to like him. Our goal: 100k "likes":
Recent comments
- Here's a Nice Restoration
- And the linkage
- Totally tubular...
- The Rock
- In Living Color
- You can help
- Why is ...
- Missing something
- Failure to swerve
- Sterile environment
- Hubert's brother-in-law
- No night visitors
- Two trolley poles.
- Then and Now
- Kind of spooky
- Arthur E. Frandle 1898 -1972
- Both near retirement
- Marx 712 Army Pursuit Tin Windup Airplane
- J. P. Hammond
- Streetcars Return!
- Vintage Playskool wood block train
- Thank you
- Nosmo King
- Yowzaa
- A Wider Woodward
- View forward
- Blink and you'll miss it still stands, tall and skinny.
- Car ID
- California parking
- Continuity
Member Photos
Photos submitted by Shorpy members.
Colorized Photos
Colorized photos submitted by members.
About the Photos
Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.
WEB SITE & CONTENTS
© 2016 SHORPY INC.
© 2016 SHORPY INC.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Image Galleries
Search Shorpy
Today's Top 5
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
Tannery Row: 1903
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 3:14pm.
New Orleans circa 1903. "Steamer loading hides." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Movember
Submitted by U-235 on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 7:27am.
A couple of the guys in the foreground have epic mustaches, very fitting for "Movember"!
Belts
Submitted by LadyCelia on Wed, 11/21/2012 - 6:29am.
Machine age=a great many belt driven machines. And those machine belts were made of leather.
Can someone explain
Submitted by Mark W Rummel on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 7:13pm.
what type of hides these are? I thought cow hides weren't that uniformly square. What would have been produced in the Big Easy to be shipped elsewhere back then? Plus, I wonder where they're going?
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 | © 2016 Shorpy Inc.
Today's Top 5