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
- Long-lasting technology
- The only thing missing
- Not so easy on the eyes
- Lighting adjustment
- Cut and paste
- To the news
- Light fixture cages
- 67th Street
- Another Stunner
- Said Mother McG to her gullible son
- Bat boy
- "Hazy lazy crazy days of summer"
- Holy i-ball Batman!
- In the heat of the day
- Many lost summers ago
- Darned lei!
- At first glance,
- The checkboard
- A matter of economy.
- Some buildings still there
- The Lost Weekend
- A short beer ?
- Almost the Buddy System
- Switches? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Switches
- Incredib-El
- Great place
- Answer me this
- Last Ride
- Which way?
- A great safety technique
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
Spa Treatment: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 2:17pm.
December 1942. Boxcars being refurbished. "Regular tracks of the South Yards of the Chicago & North Western R.R. Proviso Yard." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
Insulated Boxcars
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 10:25pm.
At first I thought these were really refrigerator cars but upon closer inspection they are insulated box cars used for hauling milk. There are no ice hatches on the roofs of the cars either. You can see the word milk on the car in the right corner of the photograph. Its wheel set or "truck" is a beefed up express truck capable of higher speeds then the convention freight car trucks of which we see side frames lined up in the foreground. This was necessary as these cars were usually hauled on passenger trains. These are excellent photographs.
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