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
- Who posted this photo?
- Knickers into the late 40's for this Alabama Boy....
- Wistful Memories
- Among the last to lose his knickers?
- Simple Pleasure
- Ahh, knickers!
- Was once a minor tourtist attraction
- Deja vu
- Memories
- It's all in your perspective
- Yipes, Stripes!
- Just call me Columbo
- Not a Matching Set
- Shockingly, a well preserved area
- Is it bedtime yet?
- Market Square
- Horse fountain suggestion
- Call me old fashioned
- No change in 88 years
- You've got mail
- North Ninth No More
- What a deal!
- Another fine product
- Store for rent
- Why we have OSHA
- Shocking?
- College Chemistry
- Love the haircut
- White Walls
- Some things change
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
Today's Top 5
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
Palace of Pontiacs: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 5:30pm.
May 21, 1935. "Pontiac coupe at San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts." Today's bullet point on the Shorpy Timeline of Triassic Transportation. 8x10 inch nitrate negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. View full size.
»
- 3 comments
- 7737 reads
Police Parade: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 3:12pm.
Tags:
New York circa 1905. "Police Parade -- Squad of mounted police." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
»
- 1 comment
- 5899 reads
Great White: 1900
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/09/2017 - 10:36am.
Tags:
Boston circa 1900. "Battleship U.S.S. Kearsarge from astern." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
»
- 3 comments
- 8176 reads
My Little Town: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 4:46pm.
September 1938. "'Sittin' around' mining town of Osage, West Virginia." Medium format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
»
- 3 comments
- 7285 reads
Municipal Montgomery: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 3:07pm.
Tags:
March 1943. "Montgomery, Alabama. In front of City Hall." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Mr. Money: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 10:54am.
Tags:
Vienna, Virginia, circa 1920. "H.A. Money." The undertaker Howard A. Money (1859-1931). National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
»
- 3 comments
- 6628 reads
Two Kazoos: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 9:29am.
Tags:
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Characters" is all they wrote on the label of this National Photo glass negative. Library of Congress annotation: "Photograph shows two African American men sitting on bales of hay and playing instruments outside a barn or stable. One man plays guitar and the other plays a bowed instrument similar to a cello; both men simultaneously play kazoos." View full size.
»
- 2 comments
- 6451 reads
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.
