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
- Conrad Ormsbee
- Conrad 2013
- Ahead of its time
- Don't Tread On Me?
- A rapidly changing view
- Tilting towers
- Watch Out!
- Cleaning up their act
- Fauna, no Flora
- Resettled, all right
- Never Gets Old
- Odd man out?
- Gas Tank
- One more and it's an infestation
- Pointy End First
- Dizzy
- A propos of nothing
- White Wing & Electric Cab
- Fuseless shells
- All gone
- Sister ship
- Half tone parking
- Halftone parking
- Work safety, again
- Hometown hero
- 1936 Olds Eight
- All dressed up
- Two men
- Milwaukee Vocational School
- That looks pretty average
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
City Galleries
Vintage photos of:
Montana Cowboys: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 4:25am.
Tags:
June 1939. Big Horn County, Montana. Quarter Circle U Ranch roundup. Cowhands singing after a day's work. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
»
- 10 comments
- 18303 reads
Ashcans on Van Horn: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 11:34pm.
December 1935. Hamilton County, Ohio. Vicinity of Cincinnati. Dwellings on Van Horn Street. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans.
»
- 12 comments
- 19921 reads
The Office: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 7:43pm.
April 1941. Clerical staff of a South Side Chicago insurance company. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.
»
- 12 comments
- 19923 reads
Another World: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 7:13pm.
Tags:
July 1938. Another view of the rowhouses in Ambridge, Pa. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
»
- 4 comments
- 27953 reads
Movie Mecca: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 6:46pm.
1937. Movie theater in Crossville, Tennessee. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
»
- 9 comments
- 17927 reads
Granville County: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 4:03pm.
July 1939. Tenant farmers and tobacco barn in Granville County, North Carolina. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.
»
- 3 comments
- 21423 reads
The Great Race: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 2:30pm.
February 12, 1908. "Scarfoglio and companions in Zust car, New York," at the start of the New York to Paris automobile race of 1908, in which the contestants drove west across the continent to San Francisco, continued to Alaska by ship, took a steamer across the Bering Strait and continued the land journey in Siberia. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. Below, the competition itinerary as printed in the January 26, 1908, New York Times.
»
- 7 comments
- 19049 reads
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 | © 2014 Shorpy Inc.
