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
- Paper drives
- Pregnant Marian
- Paper drive
- The 1942 scrap paper drives were very successful.
- Delivery Wagon
- All you need to make you Go
- All of That
- Egad
- Watch your step
- Baseball players or hoods?
- Still there
- Wrapped power pole
- Hollywood Bad Girl?
- Nonelectronic
- Wonderful talent
- A Bubbling Cup
- Knickers
- These fountains
- Germs? What Germs?
- Just Made It
- What's that guy doing?
- Long-lasting technology
- The only thing missing
- Not so easy on the eyes
- Lighting adjustment
- Cut and paste
- To the news
- Light fixture cages
- 67th Street
- Another Stunner
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
Golfer Dad: 1966
Submitted by delworthio on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 1:31am.
Tags:
Here's my dad in 1966, the year I was born. I have no comment for this Kodachrome slide. Caption ideas welcome. View full size.
F's and A's
Submitted by Sandy Halsall on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 5:25pm.
Leather shoes (be they golf or otherwise and long socks with shorts; that's an F. Good thing the socks were not dark-dress, or that F would be accompanied by a jail sentence.
The clothes probably fit when they were purchased. Another F, because of the outcry for new ones.
The cap is at a jaunty angle (currently favored by rappers among others) but not on purpose. D-.
I'm no advocate of skin cancer, but keep these so-pale-they-are-nearly-clear legs should be viewed by significant others only. F.
But, if he was a great dad, A++++++, and that's all that really matters.
Call Me Chip
Submitted by delworthio on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 3:51pm.
I sure did dress like that, except in an ironic sense. I also sported long sideburns like the ones he grew when my older sisters convinced him to do so when they were fasionable in the 70's (but he kept them long after they were on the out).
Chip Off the Old
Submitted by missing link on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 1:11pm.
So, did you grow up to dress like your dad?
No shortage of comments
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 12:01pm.
Comments are something Shorpy readers can easily supply.
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