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- Still there in 1955
- Not Loafing
- A Collection of Fascinating Stuff
- Makes Sense To Me
- JAckson-2159
- View from the other side
- Coal & Ice
- Truck ID
- It's All About Efficiency
- Coal & Ice
- Staying with the hod theme:
- Busy
- ICE
- Fresh wrapped coal?
- Size Matters
- A practical recommendation
- No coke machine
- The coalyard
- Wrapped packages
- The apartments survived, Best Coal did not.
- Remember Tim Finnegan?
- One lump or two?
- Baffling signage
- Similar, but different
- Budget Remodel
- Nebraska Highway
- I wondered how long
- Brick art
- Focus on shoes
- Still there
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The Gallery
Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.
13821 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 08/12/2020 - 2:17pm
Bizarre
Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.
105 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/14/2020 - 11:31am
Featured Contributors
Shorpy contributor galleries.
407 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 04/20/2020 - 9:04pm
Member Gallery
Photos uploaded by visitors to Shorpy.com. To see your photos here, register for a user account and become a member! It may take a day or two for your photos to appear. If you're already a registered user, make sure you're logged in and then click here to upload. To see member submissions in blog form, click here.
5994 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:03pm
Places
Black-and-white historical streetscape and skyline photographs of major American cities from the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and more.
7954 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/09/2020 - 8:41pm
Kodachromes
Color transparencies including Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Anscochrome. Many large-format (mostly 4x5) Kodachrome transparencies shot for the Office of War Information. The images you see here have been adjusted by the Webmaster for color and contrast.
513 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:11am
Photographers
13547 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 08/12/2020 - 2:17pm
Agriculture
302 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 07/12/2020 - 7:09pm
Animals
840 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/31/2020 - 11:06am
Art & Design
42 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 09/19/2011 - 11:26pm
Astronomy
3 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 06/26/2013 - 10:51am
Aviation
279 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 06/11/2020 - 6:27pm
Before & After
2 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 10:15pm
Bicycles
207 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 08/01/2020 - 10:22pm
Boats & Bridges
Hundreds of black-and-white photos of battleships, dreadnoughts, riverboats, paddle wheelers, cruise ships, ocean liners and Great Lakes freighters and ore carriers. Photos of suspension and truss bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and 59th Street Bridge.
850 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/23/2020 - 3:59pm
Boy Scouts
46 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 10/03/2019 - 9:13am
Camping
87 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/25/2019 - 5:47pm
Cars, Trucks, Buses
Historical color and black-and-white photos of cars and trucks from the early 20th century: Model T Ford, Packard, Cadillac, Franklin, Renault, Oldsmobile and other marques from the brass era of automobiles; tailfinned road locomotives from the 1950s and beyond.
2233 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 08/03/2020 - 1:17pm
Civil War
Black-and-white historical photos from the American Civil War. Wet plate collodion glass plate negatives exposed by Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and other noted Civil War photographers. There are hundreds of photos in this gallery.
318 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 06/01/2020 - 12:42pm
Colorized Photos
Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.
1123 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/21/2020 - 2:43pm
Cornett Family
Willie and Vivian Cornett of Leatherwood, Kentucky, their 12 children and grandchildren as documented by William Gedney in 1964 and 1972. Photographs from Duke University's William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) Photographs and Writings Collection.
18 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/20/2012 - 9:05pm
Curiosities
110 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 02/09/2020 - 4:20pm
Dust Bowl
31 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:48am
Education
230 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/30/2020 - 11:54am
Edwards Boy
Who was he, and what became of him? The answer is ... Out There. Maybe.
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 10/04/2012 - 2:54am
Elvis 1956
Photos of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in 1956.
9 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 11:06am
Factories
312 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 08/08/2020 - 10:15am
Farked
70 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/27/2018 - 11:12am
Film Roll
0 photos in this gallery
Fires, Floods etc.
109 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:49am
Flatiron Building
Black-and-white historical photos of the Flatiron Building, a.k.a the Fuller Building, at Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan.
21 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/24/2016 - 10:26am
Found Photos
Slides, mostly Kodachromes, snagged on eBay. Plus the odd Ektachrome, Anscochrome or black-and-white snapshot.
230 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/25/2019 - 4:03pm
Free iPhone Wallpaper
Download free iPhone Wallpaper. These historic images are cropped to fit perfectly on your iPhone.
31 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 09/11/2008 - 9:20am
Frontier Life
49 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/04/2020 - 2:04pm
Gas Stations
Filling stations and garages from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
245 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:11am
Glazier Stove Works
Photos from 1901 documenting the Glazier Stove factory in Chelsea, Michigan.
16 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 03/05/2017 - 9:02pm
Great Depression
The economic crisis, beginning with the stock market crash of October 1929 and lasting until 1939, that saw millions of Americans plunged into poverty and destitution.
211 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:55pm
Handsome Rakes
51 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 02/29/2020 - 5:47pm
Herb & Joe
Herbert Bell and Joe Garso, one-legged bicycle riders.
4 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2013 - 4:09pm
Holidays
409 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/09/2020 - 1:58pm
Industry & Public Works
71 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 11/06/2019 - 1:36pm
Iola S.
Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/12/2018 - 12:20pm
Kids
An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.
1979 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 08/07/2020 - 7:04pm
Kitchens etc.
312 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 06/13/2020 - 12:40pm
Krazy Kat Club
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/05/2012 - 4:48pm
Landscapes
115 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 08/05/2020 - 2:12pm
Magic & Spiritualism
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 01/21/2019 - 3:10pm
Medicine
192 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 07/15/2020 - 9:47am
Mining
222 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 06/20/2020 - 7:05pm
Motorcycles
Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.
53 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 12/07/2017 - 11:41am
Movies
232 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 06/30/2020 - 12:09pm
Native Americans
American Indians -- actual, pretend, and cultural derivatives.
29 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 07/15/2020 - 12:34am
On the Road
61 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 02/18/2020 - 1:18pm
Painfully Obvious Photoshoppery
0 photos in this gallery
Patriotic
71 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/09/2020 - 1:58pm
PDS
People's Drug Stores, a once-ubiquitous retail chain in the Washington, D.C., area that was something like the Starbucks of patent remedies, cigars and "rubber goods." Interiors including soda fountains and exteriors including window displays.
37 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 08/29/2016 - 12:10pm
Performing Arts
278 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 5:38pm
Photochrom
Chromolithographs, generally postcards, made by the Detroit Publishing Co. using the Photochrom process.
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 04/04/2014 - 1:26pm
Piscatorial Downspouts
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:05am
Politics
80 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 07/05/2020 - 2:10pm
Portraits
404 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 5:38pm
Posters
Artwork for the Works Progress Administration, as well as fruit crate labels and other graphical goodness. These and many more examples can be found here.
31 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 11/01/2013 - 9:33am
Pretty Girls
335 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 5:38pm
Public Figures
81 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 03/06/2019 - 4:03pm
Railroads
Black-and-white and color historical photos of American railroads, locomotives, trains, depots and stations from the late 19th century and early to mid 20th century. Photos of steam locomotives and diesel engines. Elevated railways in New York and Chicago. There are hundreds of photos in this gallery.
1173 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 08/08/2020 - 10:15am
Relocation Camps
World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.
20 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 03/23/2016 - 1:21pm
Restaurants & Bars
Eateries, bars and pop stands.
312 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/06/2020 - 6:20pm
Rural America
342 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 06/16/2020 - 4:06pm
S-A War
Spanish-American War photos
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 10/02/2014 - 2:34pm
Scary Clowns
Clowns that are scary. Which of course would be all clowns.
10 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/12/2017 - 8:05am
Signal 30
Newspaper photos of 1950s car wrecks, generally around Oakland, California. 4x5 inch Kodak negatives.
45 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 02/18/2016 - 9:19pm
Small Towns
375 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 08/12/2020 - 2:17pm
Sports
734 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/02/2020 - 10:56am
Stores & Markets
1112 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/09/2020 - 8:41pm
Streetcars
Black-and-white historical photos of streetcars, trolleys and interurban railways from the early 20th century. Electric street railways and traction lines.
582 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:43am
Swimming
402 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:59am
Texas Mountain Trail
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/03/2009 - 12:18pm
The Card Game
A curious set of photos from the Office of War Information archive, taken by Arthur Siegel in Detroit in the summer of 1941.
9 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 11/27/2013 - 9:07pm
The Dickeys
Washington, D.C., lawyer Raymond Dickey and family, and Christmas tree.
10 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 12/22/2017 - 7:18am
The Office
175 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 03/26/2020 - 1:14pm
Toadlike Autocrats
0 photos in this gallery
Travel & Vacation
129 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 07/22/2020 - 11:49am
TV
Photos relating to television sets and television shows.
117 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 03/24/2020 - 3:10pm
Tyne & Wear
Photographs from the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums in England, including mug shots from the North Shields police department.
1 photo in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2012 - 11:41am
Very Old Ads
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 02/06/2011 - 7:06pm
Weddings
33 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 05/19/2018 - 1:54pm
WW2
World War 2 photos documenting life on the home front, including defense plants manufacturing aircraft and armaments, and the railroads and trains that moved them to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Many large-format Kodachromes by Jack Delano and other photographers on assignment for the Office of War Information, as well as photos by Ansel Adams documenting Japanese-American internment camps along the West Coast.
610 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 08/03/2020 - 1:17pm
WWI
178 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 07/05/2020 - 9:49am
Zeppelins & Blimps
39 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 06/11/2020 - 6:27pm
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