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
- Which explains why...
- 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
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
A Full Tank: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 5:22am.
Tags:
June 1942. M-3 tank and crew at Fort Knox, Kentucky. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
Rivets
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 11/24/2007 - 12:42am.
I had heard this tank was especially dangerous for its crew because it was riveted and not welded together. When struck by incoming, broken rivets could fly around the interior like bullets. The great resolution of this photo shows not only rivets but also bolts.
Thanks AC
Submitted by Ron on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 11:00pm.
Thanks my uncle was a tank commander in WWII
The commander is...
Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 10:57pm.
The commander sat in the turret, so that's him in the upper right.
Because it had two main guns, it had 2 gun crews. The Soviets called this tank "The Grave For Seven Brothers."
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