- Imperial Duty
- Child's play
- Missouri is a good bet
- And convenient to the curb ...
- Dare I say it?
- A League Of Her Own
- Stepping Stone
- That Home Base Stone
- Diamond in the rough
- Something about their eyes
- Gangsters and a Gypsy
- Handsome Building
- NICE
- Pictures, I hope.
- Racy picture for sure. Oh Baby!
- Woodstock 1915
- A musical group
- Play party?
- Carry on Camping
- Starting the day off with a bang
- Being White at Night
- Parking by Braille
- Plans subject to change without notice
- Never-Everland
- What dent?
- Oh no, the Master Rod!
- The importance of being
- The Start --
- Dented Fender
- Sinclair Gas Credit Card
Photos submitted by Shorpy members.
Colorized photos submitted by members.
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.
© 2018 SHORPY INC.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Vintage photos of:
Star Pressing Club: 1936
February 1936. Vicksburg, Mississippi. "Negro shop fronts. Laundry and barber shop." Large-format nitrate negative by Walker Evans. View full size.
- 11 comments
- 24774 reads
Home Lodge: 1863
June 1863. "Washington, D.C. Sanitary Commission workers at the entrance of the Home Lodge for Invalid Soldiers." From photographs of the U.S. Sanitary and Christian Commissions. Wet plate glass negative. View full size.
- 8 comments
- 26332 reads
Eating with Melmac: 1963
June 1963. A year after my father sat on the deck reading the paper, here's my mother out there engrossed in her favorite newspaper activity, doing the crossword puzzle. I don't see the BBQ... er, grill, so maybe we were just eating outside to escape the kitchen's heat on a summer day. Besides the Melmac cup and saucer, other typical 1950s-60s paraphernalia in view includes square waxed milk and half-and-half cartons (Lucas Valley Dairy, for any vintage Marinites out there), another of our anodized aluminum tumblers, a woven basket chair peeking in at the left, and a decorative cement Japanese garden lamp. In the distance, our cactus garden, which by this time I'd taken over. More of my succulent collection in pots lines the edge of the deck. There's our rain gauge mounted on the fence. My Kodachrome slide. View full size.
- 23 comments
- 20847 reads
Waste Not: 1918
Washington, D.C., circa 1918. "World War I. Food Administration electric signs, 7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W." National Photo Co. View full size.
- 15 comments
- 15044 reads
School of Aeronautics: 1908
New York circa 1908. "Exhibit, International School of Aeronautics." 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 23642 reads
Tommy and Arthur: 1908
November 1908. Chester, South Carolina. Tommy Ashville (smaller boy), two years in Wylie Mill. "Specks I'm about 11." Arthur Shelly, eight years in mill, 14 years old. Other boys agreed he had been in mill eight years. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 13483 reads
California Street: 1922
Washington, D.C., 1922. "1859 California Street." National Photo Co. glass negative. (Update: This house is on the market for $1.55 million.) View full size.
- 17 comments
- 15143 reads
Miss McNeir Again: 1933
Another shot of Elinor McNeir from her 1933 portrait sitting at the Harris & Ewing studios in Washington. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 9615 reads
RSS | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Photo Use | © 2018 Shorpy Inc.
