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
- Snowball's chance
- Ugly Shoes
- One woman's vacation
- Grim reminder
- Shrinkage
- Not enough pots in the world
- Kitchen hotpads
- Must have been at the beach all day
- Composition
- Nomenclature?
- What's good for General Motors is good for the country
- No wasted space here
- space
- Shorpy Vehicle Identification Imperative
- When the government gets money for nothing
- Price list translation
- Under the Asphalt
- Vive
- Come Set a Spell
- The Angelus
- Laundry lad
- Don't Get Hurt!
- So much to love
- Plow pit
- Capital Transit 1120
- Very Scary!
- A Great Photograph
- The Trifecta
- How?
- Us looking at photos of them
Member Photos
Photos submitted by Shorpy members.
Colorized Photos
Colorized photos submitted by members.
About the Photos
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.
WEB SITE & CONTENTS
© 2017 SHORPY INC.
© 2017 SHORPY INC.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Image Galleries
Search Shorpy
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
When We Were Young: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 4:37am.
Tags:
District of Columbia, 1911. "Negroes. Negro life in Washington." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
I wonder?
Submitted by JerHistorian on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 6:03am.
I also wonder how these kids turned out. The early 20th century was very hard for African Americans considering that it was only 41 years since the end of slavery.
Great expressions
Submitted by kj on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 11:29am.
I adore the expressions of the two in the middle - especially the one with the bucket. Classic!
Girl Group
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 10:38pm.
Just starting out I guess. I wonder if even back then she insisted on being called "Miss Ross."
D.C. Kids
Submitted by The innocent suffer on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 1:55pm.
My heart goes out to the young people in these pictures who endured the poverty and difficulties of the times. I hope they had a good life.
Heartbreak kids
Submitted by Older than Yoda on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 1:11pm.
My heart aches for these kids and this picture, so close to the picture of Norma Shearer, points up the injustices in life. Who said life was fair, huh?
SHORPY HISTORICAL PHOTO ARCHIVE
Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo archive featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1960s. (Available as fine-art prints from the Shorpy Archive.) The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
RSS | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Photo Use | © 2017 Shorpy Inc.
Today's Top 5