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
- Not buying it
- Ford Day in Chinatown?
- Vats all folks
- License plate
- Time Sensitive
- A little background
- That's an A.P. Smith hydrant
- Watermark
- Neon everywhere!
- WW II Poster
- Wouldn't you rather have a Winton?
- Greatly Improved
- Mexican Souvenirs?
- Judy Garland's Palace Song
- Who knew?
- How poplar was this place?
- 931 R Street, NW
- Falling backwards
- Escalator
- Temptation
- Perspective
- Titche-Goettinger
- Hotel burned in 1930
- I found the place this was taken
- SF Chinatown
- Lost to History
- Still Majestic After All These Years
- Dealey Plaza
- Lord Rockingham
- Service Stars
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:
Warming Up: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 7:06pm.
January 1941. Band composed of guests at a trailer park in Sarasota, Florida. View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Marion Post Wolcott.
Life Is but a Dream: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 12:08pm.
Tags:
February 1941. Singing and music for agricultural workers' children in a new day nursery for the Okeechobee migratory labor camp at Belle Glade, Florida. Medium-format safety negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
»
- 2 comments
- 11365 reads
Bunkhouse Boys: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 7:47am.
Tags:
December 1940. Construction workers gathered around the bunkhouse stove in the new craftsmen's barracks at Camp Blanding, Florida. View full size.
Medium-format safety negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA.
»
- 1 comment
- 12701 reads
Scipio Wright: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 3:10am.
Tags:
Scipio, a St. Bernard acquired by Orville Wright in 1917. Photo taken between 1917 and 1928. View full size. 5x7 glass negative by Orville Wright.
»
- 1 comment
- 11620 reads
Greensboro: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:54am.
Tags:
June 1941. Sawmill and smokestack at the Greensboro Lumber Co. in Greensboro, Georgia. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
Free Horse Dinner!
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:51am.
December 29, 1923. "Horse Christmas Party" at the Washington, D.C., Animal Rescue League. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
»
- 5 comments
- 15461 reads
Blue Train: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:43am.
December 1942. Train going over the hump at the Chicago & North Western Proviso Yard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
»
- 1 comment
- 12365 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.
