5000+ 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
- The Happy Harrisons
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Analog Google of yore.
- It's for sale!
- Please rinse your empties
- Milk is still delivered!
- Dress Code
- Characters
- Canine Cutlets
- Proves it.
- Firstly
- I vaguely remember in the early '60s
- What could possibly be
- Coming back soon
- Before safety glass, seat belts and air bags-
- Re: Focus
- Top to Bottom
- Focus
- Car ID
- General Butler
- Possible project location
- Don't know the address
- Tough One
- Patronage
- From what I found, I think it's
- Fred H. Gore
- 14th and G St
- Camera vs. tipped car
- Nice touch
- Still Trollin' along!
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
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
Wingwoman: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 4:04pm.
Tags:
October 1942. Inglewood, California. North American Aviation drill operator in the control surface department assembling horizontal stabilizer section of an airplane. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
»
- 1 comment
- 24851 reads
The Wind-Up: 1921
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 5:49am.
Tags:
Amarillo Yardmaster: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 11:06am.
March 1943. Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas, railyard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
»
- 3 comments
- 16471 reads
I Want Food
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 8:21pm.
Tags:
Children picket at a waiters strike at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington, D.C. From the National Photo Company collection, between 1918 and 1920. View full size.
»
- 2 comments
- 15829 reads
Officer Snodgrass: 1929
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 12:21pm.
Tags:
Officer Snodgrass of the White House police force holds a captured opossum that strayed onto White House grounds, May 6, 1929. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size.
»
- 3 comments
- 12597 reads
Raleigh Haberdasher: 1925
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 8:20am.
Tags:
The display window of Raleigh Haberdasher in Washington, D.C., c. 1925. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size
»
- 9 comments
- 17850 reads
Nathaniel Dial Children: 1922
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 08/27/2007 - 5:13am.
Tags:
The children of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Dial, May 27. 1922. From the National Photo Company collection. View full size.
»
- 10 comments
- 17456 reads
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 | © 2014 Shorpy Inc.
