Join and Share
Social Shorpy
To love Shorpy is to like him. Our goal: 10k "likes":
Recent comments
- The face of a sage
- Ashcan Alley nearby?
- Blow up
- Dangerous Combination
- A historic spot for a crossing
- Quiet School
- 7th Ave. today
- Diploma
- Inflated, for sure
- Snell's Menagerie
- She doesn't buy it
- Popeye's value today
- Nice to know
- Idle chatter
- Stand Your Ground tterrace
- Inflatable?
- Stuffed
- Excellent
- Is the photographer known?
- Cross dressing?
- WMKC New Orleans
- Nice, but flags
- Marbles in 1947
- Broadway legend
- Makes me see new details
- Viewing stands
- Wow!
- Good Job
- Fallout Shelter
- The King!
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
The Shorpy Store!
Cashtown Gun Club: 1899
Submitted by WaterlooBridge on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 11:03am.
Tags:
Cashtown Gun Club, Adams County, Pa., 1899. If you look closely at the old gent in the lower left, he's obviously the camp cook. He's holding a pot with a towel which is probably hot coffee. The man to his left must be his helper and he's holding something that appears to be a flask. A good time was had by all.
The caption at the bottom reads: "Cashtown Gun Club in Camp on South Mountain Nov. 28, 1899" South Mountain is actually in Maryland, but not far away.
Cashtown is near Gettysburg and both Union and Confederate troop road through town and stayed at the Inn there which is still open to the public. I've tried to identify the men in the photograph but have had no success. Input welcome.
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 | © 2012 Shorpy Inc.
Today's Top 5