Photographers | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive

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Photographers

A. Palmer

Alfred T. Palmer (1906-1993). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

134 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 11/20/2011 - 6:20pm

Alexander Gardner

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Civil War photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 08/26/2011 - 7:17pm

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Images from the Time-Life archive.

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:41pm

Andreas Feininger

Andreas Feininger (1906-1999). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

8 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/10/2010 - 11:20pm

Ann Rosener

Ann Rosener. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

19 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2011 - 2:39pm

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

14 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 10/07/2008 - 1:15am

Arthur Rothstein

Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

130 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 4:35am

Arthur Siegel

Arthur Siegel, photographer for the Office of War Information. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:10pm

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (1898-1969), Lithuanian-born artist and photographer. Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

83 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/19/2011 - 6:01pm

Carl Mydans

Carl Mydans (1907-2004). Images from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.

32 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 11/27/2011 - 3:19pm

Carol M. Highsmith

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 07/31/2010 - 12:54pm

David Myers

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 12:19pm

Dick Sheldon

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 08/14/2011 - 10:09pm

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). This socially conscious documentarian of Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s took one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother.

127 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 11/27/2010 - 9:59am

DPC

Glass negatives from the Detroit Photographic / Detroit Publishing collection at the Library of Congress. These glass plates were the starting point for the millions of colored postcards sold every year by Detroit Publishing in the early years of the 20th century, made using its patented Photochrom process.

In 1939, a year before his death, Detroit Publishing partner William Henry Jackson, whose western plates formed the basis of the company's holdings in its early days, gave the negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.

1447 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 8:16pm

E.H. Hart

25 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/11/2011 - 7:40pm

Edward Curtis

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 10:18pm

Edwin Locke

2 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/14/2008 - 12:31pm

Edwin Rosskam

22 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 02/05/2012 - 3:24pm

Esther Bubley

54 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 3:17pm

F. Holland Day

2 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 8:25pm

F.B. Johnston

Photographs of the pioneering feminist Frances Benjamin Johnston, commissioned by the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South.

73 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2012 - 5:07pm

F.W. Guerin

14 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 11:31am

Fenno Jacobs

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 07/05/2009 - 4:00am

G.G. Bain

Photos taken mostly in and around New York City by newsphoto pioneer George Grantham Bain's Bain News Service.

523 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:22am

Geo. Barnard

25 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/23/2011 - 2:19pm

Gertrude Kasebier

18 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2012 - 12:24pm

Gordon Parks

9 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 06/30/2009 - 11:41am

Gottscho-Schleisner

33 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 06/17/2011 - 7:32pm

H. Hollem

41 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/23/2012 - 1:54am

HABS

Historic American Buildings Survey

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 09/14/2011 - 6:01pm

Harris + Ewing

Black-and-white photographs imaged directly from large-format glass negatives made by the prominent Washington, D.C., photo studio founded in 1905 by George Harris and Martha Ewing. Glass plates currently residing in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection.

584 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 02/05/2012 - 4:11pm

Howard Liberman

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:33am

Irving Underhill

8 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/08/2011 - 1:23pm

J. Collier

37 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 8:20pm

Jack Delano

1914-1997. Farm Security Administration photographer noted for his work in Puerto Rico. Here at Shorpy, his large-format Kodachromes of trains and railroads are among the most popular posts.

206 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:15am

James Gardner

3 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/20/2008 - 12:37am

James Gibson

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 08/14/2010 - 1:46am

John Grabill

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:17am

John Vachon

157 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/02/2012 - 6:33pm

Joseph Horne

9 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 12:49pm

Julius Shulman

6 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/13/2011 - 1:12pm

Lewis Hine

Photos taken by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Commission and its report to Congress.

425 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 02/04/2012 - 4:27pm

LIFE

Life magazine photo archive.

28 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:41pm

Louise Rosskam

9 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 9:05pm

Margaret Bourke-White

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/28/2008 - 6:53pm

Marion Post Wolcott

51 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/17/2010 - 1:09pm

Marjory Collins

7 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:04am

Mathew Brady

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 08/28/2009 - 4:40pm

Matson

28 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/24/2011 - 1:35am

Natl Photo

Photographs taken in and near Washington, D.C., by the National Photo Co., whose archive of thousands of negatives (mostly glass plates) and prints was donated by proprietor Herbert E. French to the Library of Congress in 1947.

1508 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 2:52pm

Paul Thompson

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/02/2011 - 3:24pm

Richard Boyer

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 1:34pm

Russell Lee

219 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 02/09/2012 - 1:24pm

Sam Cooley

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 09/06/2010 - 9:26pm

Sheldon Dick

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/09/2008 - 8:03pm

Stanley Kubrick

1 photo in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2011 - 2:22pm

Theodor Horydczak

12 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 09/24/2011 - 2:28am

Theodor Jung

13 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2011 - 12:17pm

Thomas Roche

5 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 09/11/2011 - 12:51pm

Timothy O'Sullivan

16 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/18/2011 - 3:44pm

Toni Frissell

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 7:46pm

Walker Evans

46 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:26pm

William Cruikshank

4 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2007 - 11:35am

William Gedney

Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.

17 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 09/14/2011 - 7:22pm

William Morris Smith

2 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/28/2008 - 10:27am

Wm. H. Jackson

59 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 01/29/2012 - 2:02pm

Wright Brothers

10 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/14/2008 - 3:24pm

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