4000+ 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
- The window
- Play At Your Own Risk!
- Varies by region
- My school had a playground like that, too.
- The Swingset
- Thongs vs flip flops
- Ah yes! The Bronx.
- Was hoping someone would identify this street, but
- Boom, burn, bust
- Bleak?
- We only had two TV stations
- Talk about guts.
- EEE YAAAH
- Renumbered
- Thongs vs. Flip-Flops
- Pole lamps were big at my house.
- That Plank
- Back to the Future
- Calendar
- Not exercising was not an option
- Fruit boots
- Times Have Changed!
- Thongs
- The Original Fitness Guru
- Enjoy it while you can
- Need more light?
- Not today
- Another marker
- No UHF
- The Real Workout
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
Tommy and Arthur: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 10:23am.
Tags:
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.
Hired Hands
Submitted by jag45 on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 7:52am.
What always impresses me is the size of the Hine children's hands -- huge. That's what workers were called: hands.
Cotton Club
Submitted by Patrick Frye III on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 7:09am.
These are Children of the Cotton. Boys with eyes full of lint and tarnation.
Not yet 15
Submitted by A. Bear on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 11:26am.
And he has more seniority in his job than I do in mine.
That younger fellow
Submitted by LocktownDog on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 11:16am.
... looks like he's from Children of the Corn!
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 | © 2013 Shorpy Inc.
Today's Top 5