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The Gallery

Fine-art prints by Juniper Gallery on a variety of archival art papers.

14857 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/03/2023 - 7:34pm

Bizarre

Bizarre, weird, rare historical photos. Because that's what the Internet wants.

130 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:29am

Featured Contributors

Shorpy contributor galleries.

415 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 03/04/2023 - 8:07pm

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6066 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/24/2023 - 12:22pm

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.

8440 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 06/01/2023 - 12:18pm

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.

584 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 04/19/2023 - 10:17am

Photographers

14570 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/03/2023 - 7:34pm

Agriculture

394 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 04/29/2023 - 1:43pm

Animals

883 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/10/2023 - 8:42pm

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

235 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 04/18/2023 - 5:55pm

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.

917 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/22/2023 - 6:24pm

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.

2416 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 05/19/2023 - 4:11pm

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.

325 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/20/2023 - 1:11pm

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.

351 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 03/19/2023 - 8:10pm

Education

251 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 05/12/2023 - 9:08am

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

355 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/22/2023 - 6:24pm

Farked

71 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 07/27/2018 - 11:12am

Film Roll

0 photos in this gallery

Fires, Floods etc.

112 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 02/28/2023 - 11:52am

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: Mon, 05/29/2023 - 10:10am

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.

301 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 04/27/2023 - 12:51pm

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

93 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 05/31/2023 - 9:20am

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.

2140 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/29/2023 - 10:10am

Kitchens etc.

353 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 04/29/2023 - 1:43pm

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

205 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 03/24/2023 - 1:19pm

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.

39 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/20/2023 - 11:34am

Performing Arts

298 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/25/2023 - 1:00pm

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

415 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 04/25/2023 - 1:04pm

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

352 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2023 - 5:33pm

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.

1267 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 04/14/2023 - 10:44am

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

498 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 05/15/2023 - 11:04am

Sports

757 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:28pm

Stores & Markets

1237 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 05/16/2023 - 12:29am

Streetcars

Black-and-white historical photos of streetcars, trolleys and interurban railways from the early 20th century. Electric street railways and traction lines.

644 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/25/2023 - 1:00pm

Swimming

429 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 05/11/2023 - 2:15pm

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.

122 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 04/08/2023 - 7:57pm

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.

684 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 06/03/2023 - 7:34pm

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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