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
- +73
- We used this often
- High ceilings
- The Kelly Lady Is No Cheap Date
- Santa Fe Steam
- Wash your clothes - grind your meat
- Lelands, Giants of the Early Auto Industry
- Firestone Non-Skid
- Lovestruck?
- Job Interview
- Freckled Mona Lisa
- If Freckles were Pennies
- This desk
- Some More Leland History
- No corner office
- A creative type ...
- Creative anachronisms
- The Old Office
- The Look
- I Want That Lamp
- A wild guess
- Skiing
- Meat grinder memories....
- I have one too.
- Foley Mill
- Remnants of the Horse Cavalry
- Behold
- Calling OSHA
- I still have one of these
- Re: Steering
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:
Coleman Grocery: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 4:10pm.
Tags:
"Old Store." April 13, 1937. A.J. Coleman Grocery at State Highways 14 and 86 in Pickensville, Alabama. South elevation showing door. View full size. Photograph by Alex Bush for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Black and White: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 1:33am.
July 1939. "Negro drinking at 'colored' water cooler in Oklahoma City streetcar terminal." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee.
»
- 14 comments
- 26619 reads
OK City: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 1:29am.
Tags:
July 1939. Woman with children at streetcar terminal in Oklahoma City. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Okie Near Muskogee: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 1:25am.
July 1939. "Elmer Thomas, migrant to California, tying sack of laundry onto front lamp bracket near Muskogee, Oklahoma." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.
»
- 8 comments
- 17519 reads
Smart's Bog: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 9:37am.
Tags:
September 1911. Cranberry pickers at Smart's Bog near South Carver, Mass. "Annette Roy, the youngest worker. Said 7 years old. Picked last year. Lives at 171 Orange Street, Fall River. Also Napoleon Ruel, 53 Hopkins Street. Said 9 years old." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
»
- 2 comments
- 9816 reads
The Top of Liberty
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 12:54am.
Statue of Liberty circa 1908. Top of the head as seen from the torch. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
New York: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 12:53am.
The New York of 1908 as seen from the 33rd floor of the Metropolitan Life building. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
»
- 1 comment
- 28101 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.
