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- Almost survived
- The Sainte-Chapelle of Chicago
- Get ready: Huron next !
- Here's the Church in the Middle
- Hard Hat Area
- Steps, Left to Right
- Holy Name Cathedral
- Huron & Dearborn
- The Methodist Book Concern
- Interesting hairstyle
- The hair
- Also on Shorpy ...
- 3 x 5
- That's a quartet
- Once billed as the "Songbird of Ohio"
- Crop Failure
- Ahead of His Time
- What's In A Name?
- Yet Another Thomas Dorsey
- Previously on Shorpy --
- The days of glowing radio
- Tilden Tech
- Mrs. Dorsey's Lament
- Electro-mechanical events
- Tommy's Alma Mater
- Probably a few bad filter caps
- Before ICs
- Shoes
- They glow in the dark!
- Name your price
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Photo galleries
The Gallery
Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.
14732 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
Bizarre
Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.
128 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 12/19/2022 - 12:38pm
Featured Contributors
Shorpy contributor galleries.
414 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 01/11/2023 - 7:42pm
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.
6064 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 01/19/2023 - 9:24pm
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.
8388 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
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.
569 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 11/05/2022 - 12:45pm
Photographers
14444 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
Agriculture
392 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/24/2023 - 4:27pm
Animals
878 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 12/25/2022 - 11:44pm
Art & Design
43 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/16/2022 - 4:15pm
Astronomy
3 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 06/26/2013 - 10:51am
Aviation
295 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 10/25/2022 - 12:57pm
Before & After
2 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 09/09/2011 - 10:15pm
Bicycles
232 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 01/19/2023 - 9:26pm
Billboards
8 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:30pm
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.
898 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/08/2023 - 4:46pm
Boy Scouts
46 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 10/03/2019 - 9:13am
Camping
95 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 12/31/2022 - 2:59pm
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.
2400 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/17/2023 - 12:22pm
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.
324 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 11/11/2022 - 11:13am
Colorized Photos
Vintage colorized photos from Shorpy contributors.
1140 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:38am
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
112 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 08/31/2022 - 12:51am
Dust Bowl
31 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:48am
Eateries & Bars
Restaurants, bars and pop stands.
349 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/10/2023 - 11:58pm
Education
244 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/24/2023 - 4:27pm
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
350 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/22/2023 - 2:55pm
Farked
71 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 07/27/2018 - 11:12am
Film Roll
0 photos in this gallery
Fires, Floods etc.
111 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 12/09/2022 - 1:38pm
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.
241 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 12/25/2022 - 11:44pm
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
72 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 10/07/2022 - 11:34am
Gas Stations
Filling stations and garages from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
299 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 01/18/2023 - 10:42pm
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.
212 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 04/08/2021 - 1:52pm
Handsome Rakes
53 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 05/04/2022 - 2:35pm
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
431 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 12/25/2022 - 11:44pm
Industry & Public Works
84 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 01/04/2023 - 12:46pm
Iola S.
Miss Iola Swinnerton, First Lady of Shorpy. Current occupation: Angel.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/23/2020 - 9:15am
Jewell Mazique
Jewell R. Mazique (1913-2007), labor and civil rights activist and Library of Congress employee who was the subject of a documentary photo series taken in 1942 by John Collier for the U.S. Office of the Coordinator of Information.
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2023 - 8:22pm
Kids
An assortment of teens, tots, juveniles, youngsters, girls, boys and babes.
2129 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 01/20/2023 - 12:36pm
Kitchens etc.
349 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 01/19/2023 - 11:43am
Krazy Kat Club
5 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/05/2012 - 4:48pm
Landscapes
137 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 10/13/2022 - 3:54pm
Magic & Spiritualism
7 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 01/21/2019 - 3:10pm
Medicine
204 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/30/2022 - 1:44pm
Mining
240 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 12/27/2022 - 11:24am
Motorcycles
Photos of motorbikes like the Harley-Davidson and Indian as well as motorized bicycles.
57 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 09/06/2022 - 10:28am
Movies
241 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 06/07/2022 - 4:51pm
Native Americans
American Indians -- actual, pretend, and cultural derivatives.
34 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 11/08/2022 - 2:41pm
On the Road
67 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 02/18/2022 - 2:15pm
Painfully Obvious Photoshoppery
0 photos in this gallery
Patriotic
72 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 09/04/2020 - 3:36pm
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.
38 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 2:40pm
Performing Arts
291 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 01/26/2023 - 3:20pm
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
87 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 06/02/2022 - 11:03am
Portraits
412 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 10/05/2022 - 10:25am
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
345 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/15/2023 - 11:46am
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.
1261 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 01/23/2023 - 11:32am
Relocation Camps
World War 2 Japanese-American relocation camps.
27 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 09/01/2022 - 10:13am
Rural America
367 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 12/28/2022 - 12:16pm
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.
46 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 01/07/2023 - 2:27pm
Slender Man
The star of eight enigmatic, uncaptioned exposures credited to John Vachon. Shot in May 1942 in Grand Island, Nebraska.
3 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 03/08/2022 - 3:35pm
Small Towns
494 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 01/21/2023 - 12:19pm
Sports
757 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:28pm
Stores & Markets
1220 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm
Streetcars
Black-and-white historical photos of streetcars, trolleys and interurban railways from the early 20th century. Electric street railways and traction lines.
628 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 12/05/2022 - 12:25pm
Swimming
418 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 10/11/2022 - 2:41pm
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: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 4:33pm
The Office
182 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/01/2023 - 5:01pm
Toadlike Autocrats
0 photos in this gallery
Travel & Vacation
131 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:15pm
TV
Photos relating to television sets and television shows.
120 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 06/02/2022 - 11:03am
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.
672 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 12/23/2022 - 12:21pm
WWI
180 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 08/21/2020 - 5:51pm
Zeppelins & Blimps
39 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 06/11/2020 - 6:27pm
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