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
- Thirty six years after this shot . . .
- Corvair Irony
- "Pour yourself a scotch
- To all the guitarists out there
- Mom
- The life of an IT person
- Suffragist Not Suffragette
- Where was this taken?
- Yes, Corvairs!
- The Long Happy Life of Margot Macomber
- Nice Grouping
- Key strapped to leg
- Milieu
- Narrative
- Cruiser Line Vent Ports
- Triumphs...
- Corvairs!
- Triumphant
- Burning the midnight oil
- Mantelless
- At least 1962, or late 1961
- Epitome of Lonely
- Among the Behemoths
- The Waterless Wonder from Willow Run
- Hint
- Where have I seen this?
- Triumph
- TR3
- Ajax
- Still fab
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
Zion (Again): 1971
Submitted by Tony W. on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:46am.
Here's another shot from my dad and grandparents' trip from Illinois back to LA through Zion. View full size.
Treacly
Submitted by 3dfoto on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:07pm.
We visited Zion in 1983 and that indeed was the color of the roads there, a beautiful red-brown. It contrasted nicely with the amber of the traffic markings.
RE: Nothin' but blue skies...
Submitted by Tony W. on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 7:14pm.
The negatives are 6 X 6cm.
I never knew
Submitted by Red Cardinal on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 4:25pm.
... that treacle was used in the seventies instead of asphalt! That's an incredibly rich deep brown road.
Nothin' but blue skies...
Submitted by tterrace on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 2:42pm.
WOW! Lookit that sky. Not to mention the color of the rocks. Taking a wild stab at it, I'm guessing these Zion shots are from Kodacolor negatives on 126 film (image size about 28 x 28 mm).
EDIT: Ooops - you said it was a Brownie in the earlier shot, which means this was probably 127 film, with a 4 x 4 cm negative size.
Also: 1970 Chevrolet Impala convertible.
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