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
- Car ID
- Pin Ups
- Famous in film
- Amazing photography
- He's got the cigarette
- slugs
- California Job Case
- Onions are a horror
- Air quality?
- Even
- From One Behemoth System to Another
- Vintage insight
- Role reversal
- Hot metal to cold type
- Had them at Lane Tech in 1980
- Re: etaoin shrdlu
- Believe these pics were taken when he was a private.
- I had to learn to use one of these
- The Gnarly Cottonwood
- A vanished brand
- The extra doors
- What impressive machines
- Over the shoulder horn.
- The Wild West
- Lemonolyuf
- Fill the pointy thing with sand
- Hugh Hefner
- An otherworldly appearance
- Read any magazines?
- Sweater Girl
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
Watchin' Barfy Grow: 1958
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 4:47am.
Tags:
Publicity photograph for Continental Can Company, 1958. "Whatever food you process for our pet population, remember: Continental has the right package for you!" Unless of course it's that Commie wheat gluten. View full size.
Ektachrome?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 1:27am.
Ektachrome?
[I don't know, I scanned it from a print. But it does have kind of an Ektachromy look to it. - Dave]
Something tells me once the
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 8:47am.
Something tells me once the picture was taken the puppy snapped at the kitten who leapt on the boy's head and was clumsily removed by the boy's mother. As she pulled kitty away, it made a swipe across the boy's face.
No amount of promises of ice cream and coloring books could stop his tears.
[Personally I think all three are taxidermied. - Dave]
Cute picture... It's hard to
Submitted by Jen on Fri, 05/25/2007 - 6:32am.
Cute picture... It's hard to imagine smiling with a kitten's claws sunk into your back though!
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