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
- Barrett's your visionary tire man
- "Back in the days"?
- Cutting remarks
- Perchance an Ambulance
- Wood?
- The Bank
- Cushioned flooring?
- Wood block flooring at GPO
- Service car
- Are you sure?
- Classy scene
- Wood block flooring
- Delano's Masterwork?
- +105
- Organic Flooring
- Don't forget the Marquette
- Me too!
- Those hands and forearms
- Sam Brown duty belt with issue "dump pouch"
- Hey, there's your problem -- gremlins!
- Patched Up
- Mandel Building
- TV shows galore
- El Toros
- Junior partners
- Adjust the rabbit ears
- "Always freshly placed by invisible human hands?"
- Not dead yet
- Single-axle trailers -
- To heck with the beans,
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:
Poised to Make a Splash: 1930
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 9:36am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1930. "Marjorie Webster School swimmers." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
»
- 26 comments
- 28252 reads
On the Street Where You Live: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 3:23am.
Tags:
Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Allied Asphalt Products Co., 3402 18th Street N.E." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
»
- 23 comments
- 12739 reads
Tom's Lunch: 1930
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 6:13pm.
Tags:
Washington, D.C., circa 1930. "Store front, 9th Street N.W." Hey lady, it's safe to come out. National Photo Company Collection safety negative. View full size.
»
- 24 comments
- 29794 reads
Holton-Arms Girls: 1925
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 12:19pm.
Tags:
Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Holton-Arms School, girls' basketball team." The bloomer-clad hoopsters of H-A. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
»
- 18 comments
- 21553 reads
Unlimited Texting: 1919
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 9:36am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Underwood Typewriter Co." An interior view of the Underwood office on New York Avenue whose exterior we saw in the previous post. Really, who needs distracting windows when we have this marvelous artificial lighting? Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
»
- 18 comments
- 16674 reads
Qwerty Wagon: 1919
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 9:50pm.
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Underwood Typewriter Co., 1413 New York Avenue N.W." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
»
- 12 comments
- 18338 reads
The Ring: 1927
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 7:47pm.
Tags:
Washington, D.C., circa 1927. "Holton-Arms School playground." So what game would this be? All I can think of is "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. But I'm pretty sure this isn't that. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
»
- 16 comments
- 23868 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.
