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
- Missing something
- Sterile environment
- Hubert's brother-in-law
- No night visitors
- Then and Now
- Kind of spooky
- Arthur E. Frandle 1898 -1972
- Both near retirement
- Marx 712 Army Pursuit Tin Windup Airplane
- Streetcars Return!
- Vintage Playskool wood block train
- Thank you
- Nosmo King
- Yowzaa
- View forward
- Car ID
- California parking
- Continuity
- Gas tank
- Prematurely aged
- Bonded but not Branded
- Betty Compson
- Torpedo tubes and rotating mounts
- Not A Cold Rolled Steel Special
- Stir crazy
- Guide "spoons"
- Torpedoes
- Memo to the Kaiser
- Elegance
- The vessel on the left
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
© 2016 SHORPY INC.
© 2016 SHORPY INC.
[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Image Galleries
Search Shorpy
Today's Top 5
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
Pterodactyl: 1922
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 10:50pm.
Tags:
January 18, 1922. More of the "Naval Curtiss bombing plane" at Fort McNair. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
»
- 1 comment
- 16631 reads
Tom Hook: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 10:37pm.
Tags:
Washington, D.C. "Tom Hook, Eastern High, 1924." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
»
- 1 comment
- 6062 reads
Naval Bombing Plane: 1922
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 5:31pm.
Tags:
January 18, 1922. Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. "Naval Curtiss bombing plane at War College." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
»
- 5 comments
- 24244 reads
Tax Man: 1929
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 4:50pm.
Tags:
May 20, 1929. Washington, D.C. "Secretary Mellon laying cornerstone of Internal Revenue building." View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
»
- 4 comments
- 7426 reads
D.C. Dog Catcher: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 2:25pm.
Tags:
Four Pots a Day: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 6:51am.
Tags:
February 1913. Bluffton, S.C. Oyster shuckers at Lowden Canning. "Ten-year old Frank. Shucks four pots a day." View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
»
- 2 comments
- 9749 reads
Lt. Custer and Pvt. Pup: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 7:31pm.
May 20, 1862. "The Peninsula, Virginia. The staff of Gen. Fitz-John Porter; Lts. William G. Jones and George A. Custer reclining." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war: the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Wet plate glass negative, half of stereograph pair, by James F. Gibson. View full size.
»
- 7 comments
- 46648 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 | © 2016 Shorpy Inc.
